SEMESTER SLUMBER

    We are officially rolling into week 5 of the semester and overall I feel like the semester is going well however it feels like week 50 not necessarily week 5. Although the semester has been going quite well I feel like it is dragging like never before. This has been an interesting feeling due to the fact that the last 3 semesters have not felt this way. I have also talked to my friends and they have said that they feel the exact same way.

    One of the biggest contributing factors to this has been the fact that I am not taking any classes in my major. The way the sport management course schedule works, the second semester of your sophomore year you don't take any sport management classes. So, most of my classes are   standard business courses that I am not passionate about and just kind of grinding through. I feel like this has made the semester feel a lot longer because the classes themselves feel like such a chore. 

    Another thing that has made this semester feel a lot longer is the fact of how much later we get out compared to most schools in Ohio. Most of my friends at other schools get out at the end of April or at the first week of May but we get out near the last week which makes things feel way longer. Knowing that most people are in the second half of their semester while we are in our first 5 weeks makes the semester feel even longer than it already is. This is another feeling that I share in common with the people I have talked to at ONU.

    It feels like most people I have talked to wishes the school would get rid of dead week and move finals up a week so we can get done earlier. Some also want a shorter winter break if it means we get out earlier in the summer. I personally like both of these ideas and would help this overall feeling of a semester slumber.