The Circle of Life (aka school)

I have noticed a funny cycle about semesters. Perhaps you have too. Semesters start out exciting and proactive. You go to all your classes, you pay attention. Then the first round of tests come. You over-study, you don't sleep as much, you worry because you don't know what to expect. And then its all over.

In my Aquatic Plants and the Environment class, my professor told us that you can apply the 50% rule to everything. 50% of the world's wetlands are destroyed, etc etc. On our first exam, he asked us to come up with our own 50% rule.

I wrote: "After the 1st exam, only 50% of students show up to class".

To which my professor replied: " I sure hope not"

But its true. Dr. Glenn is obviously unaware of most things transpiring in his class. And even if he was aware, he wouldn't care. But the moral of this story is that after the 1st exam, we become lazy. We have become assured in our ability to succeed and stop going to class. Sleep is by far more important.

But then round II of exams comes along. And our grades drop (maybe). And you begin to panic again. And go to class. And spend the rest of the semester having to work harder than you should have to make sure you can get that A. Well, really thats just the story of biochemistry for me. This has been my first class where this is actually the sad fact: I have to attend class.

And you can't wait for the semester to be over, and for what will be to be. And you get ready to repeat this cycle again next semester. We never learn our lessons.

I was looking for a picture about the circle of life. This is what i got:

Two thoughts entered my head:

(1) Who aspires to this?

(2) there are so many things to do with colons....

interesting.......