End of term rituals

we used to sell our books back, cash the larger bills in for $1 bills, and then... you can probably guess. hey, you asked!

My ritual was beer, beer and more beer.

I'm going to go with beer also. Beer and liquor. Never sicker.

I miss that part of college...but not the finals part.

I'm still grading.... DH is still grading..... There are blue books all over the house. Should this ever end, which looks doubtful, beer will definitely be involved.

A

Usually I go out and rent about 5 movies and just sit and vegetate for hours.

At my college, we could choose when to take our exams during exam week (there were set session times, but it was up to you to pick when).  So, you'd typically get your easy exams out of the way early and spend the rest of the week studying for your hard exams, postponing them to the last sessions.  Since it was an all-women's college and everyone lived on campus pretty much (IOW, little exposure to the public), hygiene would start slipping noticeably as the week wore on.  By the end of the week, we were lucky if we had made it out of our pjs into sweats and just about everyone wore ballcaps to hide grungy hair.  In the meantime, though, we slowly went crazy and did stupid things like attacking friends in white t-shirts and writing lewd comments, complete with strategically pointing arrows, on their shirts.  Another fav was heading to QT and getting a double court of caffeinated diet soda (yes, a 1/2 gl) and then keeping a running pee count on the dry erase outside our door.  After the exams, we mostly showered and then drank, drank, drank.  One notable after exam party included naked dancing/streaking on the rugby field.  After my last exam of my fall semester senior year, we actually stopped by the bar (before noon) for a free shot of Yager.  Ah, those were the days!

Responding for myself and my teachers friends out there...it is no different than the students. Teh only excetion is we have to read a few papers, give the scan-trons to the GA and then bolt for the bar, for the beer store! And to be honest the papers turned in late, probably never get as good of a read as the papers turned in on time-punks!

-Mick

Where's the "jealous-face" emoticon??? I don't have scan-trons OR a GA But I AM almost done with these papers. The grades were supposed to be in by noon. Whoops.

Andrea

At the conclusion of one semester, my friends and I decided to have a three day slumber party at my best friend's house. We watched cheesy 80's movies and played games, and of course drank. We'd fall asleep every now and then and then we would wake up to someone making bloody marys or margaritas. Those of us with dogs even brought them so that we wouldn't have to leave to go check on them. It was madness with around 12 people and dogs in the apartment. I can't believe we all hung out in pj's and stuff for that long. My poor friend had such a mess to clean up afterwards, but we sure had fun.

Pretty good stuff, I have one set of papers to go and then I'm done for the semester. THe studetns think us teachers are diffeent but I couldn't wait until the end this term.

I'm thinking some beer and a lot of cheesy Christmas movies. Literally Cuhristmas doesn't start until the semesters is over, so there is shopping and decorating and.....