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Spring
Fever
By Tia Peterson
This time only comes around once a year. You
wake up in your twin-sized bed to the sound of rock and roll or
hip-hop blaring through your - take note - closed dorm room window.
You wipe the four-in-the-afternoon sleep dust from your eyes and
quickly realize you've missed your 3:30 p.m. class. Then it hits
you - spring fever has arrived.
You throw on something spring-like and a pair of flip-flops (every
ORU student has a pair) and head outdoors. You look toward the parking
lot and see that the loud music that woke you up is coming from
Hondas and Nissans with their trunks popped open. Their owners are
in the middle of the street throwing footballs around and dodging
cars.
Visors. Short skirts. Ankle-bracelets. Couples, couples and more
couples. Spring fever has hit like a brick. Is it just you, or did
your academic agenda just fly past you on a Frisbee? Afternoon classes?
Forget it, you say. They had spring fever in mind when they created
class cuts.
Trust me, I feel your pain. When you wake up in the morning and
all you can think about it is getting outside, getting together
with your honey or getting the heck out of Tulsa, you're not alone.
Spring fever makes you realize that you've just spent nearly seven
months of your life walking in two directions - to and from the
GC.
Take it easy, a few more weeks of school and you're free. Just remember
something…there are still a few more weeks of school. That concept
is important. So next time you get the urge to take a detour and
head toward the Honda with the music blasting from the open trunk,
just say no. Give these last few weeks the best you've got. You'll
never get them again.
Ed. Note: Neither ORU nor the Oracle advocate cutting class.
ORU's policy requires full attendance of all classes. On the other
hand, it's spring time. What you do with your God-given class cuts
is up to you.
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