It's Called 'Dead Week' Because You Have to Do So Much It Will Literally Kill You

Meghan + Hannah = *Best Friends!

**The term 'Friendship' is dependent on a clause that says said relationship is conditional on the assumption that said 'best friend' supplies a constant stream of coffee to other said 'best friend'

It's dead week, here at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, everyone! Anyone who knows me and tries to hang out with me even before this week knows how busy I always seem to be so I never actually get to see them (including my boyfriend, which makes me sad :( and excluding my best friend, Meghan, but that's only because she buys my friendship with coffee).

Dead and finals week are crazy. I've got a huge research project and paper due on Thursday that I'm still researching (oops). I have a lot of work to do in the next week for my classes but it's weird because of how calm I feel (granted, as deadlines close in a little more that could change).

There's a couple reasons for this calm:
1. God has been showing me that my worth really isn't based on grades and performance.
2. He has also shown me that I am a smart and capable woman. Sometimes I get the inclination that I'm not actually smart and haven't learned anything in college which is not at all true. God has given me a unique set of intelligence and thoughts and also the voice to speak up about them, which is pretty cool when you get to tie in your passions with things like schoolwork!
3. I have an excellent title for my research project:

 "Where Have All the Sugar Hookers Gone?: An Analysis of sugarhooker.com and the Failure of Cyberutopian Feminism"

4.  Meghan. We have a studying system down this week where we get up early, study all day, drink a lot of coffee, and play Mario when we need a break. It's working pretty well - for some reason, mutual suffering = peace during dead week. :)

Good luck with the next two weeks, every student every where!!

Don't forget that your value is not based on your grades and your performance. You happen to be worth so much more than any of that. :)