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It has been a constant theme throughout the past several weeks. All we need to do is get through the remaining days of the semester, and then we can begin to enjoy our lives again.There is certainly nothing wrong with looking forward to the days off of school during summer vacation; however, we must put more focus on enjoying the present, or at the very least, making the best of it. As many of us likely have great times waiting during the summer months between beaches, parties, concerts and baseball games, we often forget to enjoy the remaining time we have at school.

Bill Watterson, cartoonist responsible for Calvin and Hobbes, once said, “We’re so busy watching out for what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take time to enjoy where we are.”While it may be difficult to imagine liking our school work, the attitude we complete it with can make all the difference in our overall happiness over the next week and a half. We know that our work needs to be completed; we all have extremely busy schedules and everyone may seem to be in our way, but remember that the college experience only comes around once, so let’s make the best of it.

A study done by Harvard showed that humans spend about 47 percent of their time doing one thing while thinking about another. The study also found that this sort of daydreaming makes people more unhappy as opposed to when they are simply focused on one activity.

We should look to the rest of the school year with this in mind. The next week will not be enjoyable for us if our mind is off wandering about all of the cooler things that we could be doing. So, let us make an effort to be consciously aware of our surroundings as we finish the semester.  

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