It doesn’t take a Brandeis degree to understand that finals week at college is a fucking motherfucker. Knowing you have an assload of work that you haven’t begun is like the feeling you get when you realize there are still 3.5 hours of Harvard A Cappella left and your high is seriously dwindling. Even now, just thinking about all that upcoming reading, cheating, dreading, hurling, makes me yearn for the days of nap time and animal crackers, when chilling with people meant calling up your Moms and seeing if whatever you were having for dinner was better or worse than what your friend was having, and your stuffed animal friends traveled everywhere with you… the good old days, otherwise known as Molly’s fall semester.
So how to cope, come finals week? What is a poor overworked student to do? Well, if they’re anything like My New Hero, the answer is: pretty much anything they can find. Wait for it…Yeah. (FYI: Like last time, the behavior which landed My New Hero such hot distinction involves some illicit shit (illicshit?), so, once again, we’ll run this bas-tard without names.)
Now, readers of this blog / people who have ever met or heard of me know that I have seen my fair share of smoking etc. over the years, but what I saw My New Hero engage in last week surpassed all. Why? Because not only was M.N.H. high on like 4 different blends of ganj and also WHIPPETs and I think some wack kind of actually really tasty beer, and not only did this all go down, pretty steadily, between the hours of 6 p.m. (an hour after M.N.H. woke up) and 5:30 a.m., but, in addition, as the room found out at about 4:45 a.m., M.N.H. had a FINAL to take at 9:15 the following morning. YEAH.
As the majority of our readers grew up in the Fieldston tradition of work – i.e. “Hey Mr. XXXX, I was up late last night watching Date My Mom so I don’t think I’m really prepared for this test; is it ok if I go eat a Bacon Egg & Cheese now and take this beast tomorrow,” many probably entered into college without a real idea of what actual work would feel like, or with doubts as to whether they were built for studying and shit. Well, if you are one of those nervous people, My New Hero and I are here to say re-lax. If ever you feel stressed about finals, just take page out of M.N.H.’s book: get up, look that work straight in the eye (Eko-on-the-Smoke-Monster style), and calmly and determinedly say: “fuck it.” Then watch as all that pressure and exertion slide slide sliiiiiiiiiide away, leaving you happy and perfectly at peace. After all, if the people who invented college wanted people to work there, they would have fucking called it “work,” not college. You taste me? WORD.