Sadie, GFU student:

My thoughts, two weeks prior:

This evening, as I took a break from watching Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and browsing extremely important and relevant-to-my-life photos on Facebook, I pulled out my Marketing textbook and plopped on the couch, determined to avoid skim reading, but instead immerse myself in the brilliantly captivating text. In my usual habit of attempting to make the reading appear more scintillating than it actually is, I scanned ahead, casually calculating how many pages I had to read before I could shut off the part of my brain linked to being productive. With a sigh of relief at the number being only 13, I hunkered down, fully prepared to enjoy the brisk, engaging chapter. In my head, the thought surfaced that it was terribly relieving to actually be reading on a topic I appreciated. That little joy spot, however, quickly flitted out of my line of mental vision. It occurred to me: what could one possibly have to say about societal marketing that could cover the extent of 13 whole pages? Surely no one has that much substantial information to fill that much space - at least not without repeating and dissecting each small sub-topic to the point of "beating a dead horse" if you will. What more can be said on the topic that isn't mentioned in the first few pages? Did I actually even like this topic in the first place? How is this relevant to real life?

As my mental capacity to comprehend actuality digressed, I hastily made a resolve. It is time to stick it to the man! The repressed rebellion of my youth be unleashed! Therefore, I am going to finish creating this installment of thoughts of mine for the world to one day discover and appreciate; after which I am going to march to that couch! grab up my textbook! and...

promptly begin reading again. Not stopping until I complete all 13 pages.

Sincerely,

Your average, homework-laden university student.

Stephanie, GFU student:

The last few days have certainly been blustery! Fall is here and I’m already freezing! I’m not looking forward to the start of the rainy season and definitely have an umbrella on my shopping list for my Freddy’s run tonight! This week has been the first dreaded week of the semester. Midterms are a pain, especially when you don’t study for them! But that’s what school’s about right? Late nights, coffee and junk food binges and study sessions with friends. I only have a few more months left though and I don’t have to worry about exams again for the rest of my life! I have a feeling that’s what I’m going to be telling myself when I’m operating on no sleep and sugar high after sugar high.

This semester is really exciting though. For my Senior Capstone class we get to start a small business. I’m an International Business major and our Senior Cap project is to create and launch a small business and then see how it does. We have our first presentation coming up and I’m really excited about our prospects so far. It’s nice to actually do something, instead of sitting in a classroom talking about hypotheticals. Anyway – that’s life for me right now. Wake up, go to work, go to class, go to job #2, go home, do homework, and eat and sleep somewhere in there!
Life is grand and I’m excited to share pieces of it with you!

Steph