Through reading my classmates' blogs, I have come to realize that I no longer need to adhere to the prompts in the textbook as ideas for my entries. So for my remaining blog posts, I will write about what I feel inspired to write about.
As the spring semester at Manhattanville draws to a close, final exams are upon us. Everyone feels the pressure and there is no better barometer to use than the library to judge just how anxious students are about their exams. The library is never as close to being full to capacity as it is the second-to-last and last weeks of school.
Midterms do not have as much of a cumulative effect on library attendance for any given week because midterms are administered over a span of about three weeks in the middle of the semester as classes go on normally. Most of the midterm exams and presentation and paper due dates happen in the week of classes before Columbus Day weekend, but it depends upon the professor and the class.
Finals week is more of a production. Classes end the week before finals week, which is devoted to the exams. It causes a library which sometimes seems completely empty to turn crowded. Where I can usually have my pick of computers, it is now almost impossible to find one that is unoccupied. The sometimes almost-empty cafe is now mobbed with study groups and the quiet room is heavily dotted with students slumped over tables and desks, frantically highlighting in textbooks or scribbling on note cards.
As a commuter, I mostly study at home but I definitely feel the pressure of finals week. We are all at Manhattanville for the main purpose of becoming educated, and we might as well get good grades.
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