Student Planning On Spending Winter Break Reading Ahead For Next Semester Finishes Fourth Page Of Introduction

Katherine Russell (C ‘21) had a rough first semester. After overloading on credits, going on way too many date nights, and getting hooked on opiates, Russell bombed her finals and ended her first semester of college with a less than ideal GPA. She was disappointed, but knew she could’ve done better.

Next semester’s schedule was even harder. She was taking even more classes, and all of them were at a higher level than last semester’s courses. After careful review of last semester’s performance, she decided it was time to bring her A-game. She would spend all of winter break reading ahead in classes, doing practice exams, and get on top of her work so she would breeze through courses when she actually took them.

But, as they often do, Russell’s life got the better of her. She spent her three weeks at home engaged in various activities, which included texting her ex-boyfriend Brandon, binge watching Grey’s Anatomy, hoping things would get better, online shopping, realizing Brandon got with Ashley, browsing social media, crying on the phone to Natalie who couldn’t help because what does she know, and feeling quite sad. But she didn’t open her books much.

On Tuesday, January 9th, Russell finally finished the fourth page of the Discrete Math textbook introduction she’d torrented online. After skimming through the rest of the textbook, she deleted the PDF from her hard drive to make space for the latest of Scandal just released on ThePirateBay.

“I do think I’ve learned a lot. Even though the page count wasn’t great, the material covered was heavy and I spent a lot of time reviewing. I learned things like what Discrete Math is, what it’s used for, and some other things about Discrete Math. Overall, it was a great, productive break. My only regret was not getting started on my Statistics readings, but it’s alright because this one was so dense.”

Russell’s looking forward to a new semester as a changed woman, who doesn’t need Brandon anymore either. Good luck!