OUR VIEW: Keep it down, some of us are studying
After a semester of classes, projects and a seemingly innumerable amount of quizzes and tests, everything comes down to the big test.
Though finals week is only five days long, it is one of the most critical weeks of the year in determining the final grade a student receives. The library and computer labs across campus are packed with students trying to finish projects or cram for that final test. Often the final is the difference between passing and failing.
With this much on the line, studying becomes an extremely important task. While there are various study habits, one thing is common: a need for little to no distraction.
However, there are always those students who are fortunate enough to finish all their finals early and then enjoy the remainder of the week. Often these students want to celebrate the closing of the semester by throwing parties, chilling out to their favorite tunes or turning on their favorite movie. Relaxation has begun – except for their roommates who still have finals to prepare for.
With these kinds of distractions going on, it becomes difficult to either have the desire to study or to have the focus necessary to adequately learn the material needed. Nobody wants to be studying while his or her roommates are having a good time, yet this studying is important to their grade and major.
Students who still have finals to prepare for deserve the respect and common courtesy from their roommates to have a quiet study environment. Sure students can go to the library or other quiet areas on campus to study, but these areas are constantly packed during finals week as apartment refugees seek a study asylum. Often there seems to be just as much distraction in these places as at an apartment. The shuffling of papers and incessant clicking of keyboards is enough to drive a person crazy, not to mention the stress and tension so thick in the air you can barely avoid being strangled by it yourself.
A simple remedy to this problem is for roommates to show some respect and turn down the radio or television. Sure, it’s great to celebrate, but there is a time and a place for it, and that time and place is not in an apartment and any day before Friday, Dec. 15.