Ahh, spring quarter, probably the best and worst quarter out of the school year. Wait, what? Did I just make your jaw drop? You are probably asking yourself, “did they just claim that spring quarter was the worst quarter?!” Why, yes, and why do we say this? Well, spring quarter is the absolute WORST because this quarter is such a tease. I mean how the heck am I supposed to study, work, and be a productive member of society when the it’s beautiful outside?! It simply isn’t possible.
Week 1: The Sweet Life
The first week of spring quarter is arguably the best week of the year! All you do in your classes is go over syllabi. There isn’t any homework, readings, or upcoming exams. The world is your oyster, and you are free from any responsibilities. So that means your weekends (including Deltopia) are free to do whatever you please, and you are definitely going to live it up while you can!
Week 3: Preparation of Midterms
So you may or may have not been partying for two weeks (you have), and midterms may or may not be coming up (they are). But hey, it’s beautiful outside, and you aren’t worrying about anything. I mean what are midterms even? And besides, you would much rather soak up the sun than absorb any textbook material. You are so used to not doing work that you forget you are even in college.
Week 5: Midterm Hell
(Toby: Us / Michael: Midterms)
Here it is: spring quarter’s first betrayl. You thought life was good until you had to cram five weeks of reading into one all nighter. You thought this would be a great quarter, but here you are stuck inside the library, hoping that midterms will just be over with. You thought exams were cruel in winter and fall quarter, but there is something especially torturous about it being 80 degrees outside, Extraganza is coming up, and the sunny beach is calling your name.
Week 7: The Sweet Life pt. 2
Ah, here we are again. You are finally finished with mid-quarter exams, and you think, hey I can relax a little bit; I’ll just celebrate a little bit. But the sun’s out, and you can’t just stop after one cool night. Then you are spiriling back to week 1, completely forgetting all the regrets we felt during midterms week.
Week 9: DEAD
And here you are at dead week. You didn’t want this to come (I mean we didn’t want it to happen either), but it always does doesn’t it? We may or may not be debating dropping out, but if we did, we wouldn’t be living in such an amazing place like UCSB. You are up to your eyeballs in reading and study guides, but you can’t help but look out the window and see the tide rolling in and think about summer break.
Week 10: We’re Finally Over It
This is when you absolutley hate spring quarter. The library is crowded, and it’s a thousand degrees inside, but of course, the weather is perfect on the beach. There isn’t a cloud outside, and it makes finals week that much worse.
But even with this horrendous cycle, we still love spring quarter, and we will continue to procrastinate for the beautiful days at the beach just like Michael Scott will stop at nothing to not to do work. So, thank you Michael Scott for showing us how to master the art of procrastination.