If you haven't been writing your life away the past few weeks, we here at tableau don't really know what you've been doing (unless you are in the E-School, in which case we have no clue what you are ever doing). It seems that as professors continue to raise the bar on acceptable amounts of paper-writing required per semester, internships and extracurricular clubs also have started upping the ante on how much written work, articles or memos they'd like to see from you. Or maybe, we University students are finally nearing the ceiling on just how overworked we can be and still physically function.
We've all done it: the all-nighters, the one-night-stands with our textbooks in the steamy stacks of Alderman, the shots of espresso and Red Bull we throw back to keep it up just a little bit longer and push just a little bit harder. It's exhilarating, it's breathtaking and it's becoming more and more necessary to keep up with the workload we pile on ourselves. Perhaps we've become numb to the higher and higher amounts of work we take on because it just feels so good to stay addicted rather than face caffeine withdrawal or - gasp! - have to spend an afternoon just doing nothing. But maybe we should?
Maybe we should all learn a small lesson from our dear old friend Ferris Bueller and take a break to look around once in a while and take in the sights and sounds of fall in Charlottesville before winter and exams take control. Maybe we should take a page from Edgar Allen Poe's book and chill out before mystery ravens begin to haunt our psyche at night.
On second thought ... all those examples can been seen as just another person relentlessly pursuing excellence in their field. Poe probably wrote and drank himself to death and Bueller would stop at nothing to have the perfect day off. I guess if that's the case, we should just carry on. See you in Aldy.
-stephanie garcia
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