Dressing for Success during Finals Week: a WFU HGF Special
By The Wake Forest HGF
Finals… the time of the semester where your daily exercise consists of walking to the ZSR, all nutritional considerations disappear as you bite in to that fourth cookie of the day, and sleep no longer fits into your schedule. Yeah, we get it. You have a 10-page paper due tomorrow that you haven’t started yet, and two finals the next day. Your life is about to end because you have more work in the next three days than you’ve done all semester. Regardless of your workload, everyone on this campus needs to keep one thing in mind this week: just because you’re jeopardizing your sleep cycle and your social life does NOT make it okay to give up on everything else, and dress like a homeless person.
Walking around campus during finals week is both amusing and utterly disgusting at the same time. Today in the pit, I saw a guy wearing flip flops, yellow Deacon Pajama Pants and a bright green t-shirt that was so wrinkly that it could have passed for having been in a jar for 10 years. Every time I walk through the library, I see girls who look like they haven’t showered or changed out of their sweatpants and oversized hoodies in at least 48 hours. I thought Wake Forest was a place where everybody was supposed to dress like J. Crew models. That’s why we came here, right? You may think that you can get away with it because it’s finals week, but newsflash: we’re still judging you.
What’s worse than being stuck in the ZSR on the last Friday night of the semester? Answer: looking like a complete slob while doing so. Let’s be honest- you’ve probably complained to your friends about your workload at least fifteen times. That’s like the amount of time it takes you to get ready in the morning. Add that to the hour-long Facebook binge you had at midnight (probably sending in “anonymous” compliments about yourself to Wake Forest Compliments…), the tweets you’re making every thirty minutes, and the time you spend browsing the ZSR Ryan Gosling Tumblr, and you could have been ready for your high school prom by now. If you’re anything like me, you’ll actually be more productive when you know you look good doing it. Just because it’s finals week doesn’t mean that you have free reign to be a scallywag. Do yourself a favor and try to spend at least five more minutes in front of the mirror tomorrow morning.
Condescending kisses,
HGF