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It's being told to go to bed at three in the morning. It's a stained mug of coffee, refilled again as you wonder, "When did I last eat?" and then carried into your room, sat next to a bag of chips and a used-up pen. It's walking into school the week before and slipping into a haze of equations and dates. It's a binder full of papers that you swear you just cleaned out, notes on topics you've forgotten, memos from the principal about events long gone which you read because they're a distraction. It's sprinting home because a second spent away from your books is a second wasted. It's finally getting home and crying out, "Who gives a **** as you stare at an equation for the flight path of a spherical chicken, for the synthesis of some chemical from some other chemicals. It's missed club meetings and missed socialization. It's misery in it's purest form. It *****
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Jan 15, 2014
Jan 15, 2014 at 3:43 PM UTC
The Hell of Approaching Finals
It's being told to go to bed at three in the morning. It's a stained mug of coffee, refilled again as you wonder, "When did I last eat?" and then carried into your room, sat next to a bag of chips and a used-up pen. It's walking into school the week before and slipping into a haze of equations and dates. It's a binder full of papers that you swear you just cleaned out, notes on topics you've forgotten, memos from the principal about events long gone which you read because they're a distraction. It's sprinting home because a second spent away from your books is a second wasted. It's finally getting home and crying out, "Who gives a **** as you stare at an equation for the flight path of a spherical chicken, for the synthesis of some chemical from some other chemicals. It's missed club meetings and missed socialization. It's misery in it's purest form. It *****
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Jan 15, 2014
Jan 15, 2014 at 3:43 PM UTC
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