Sweating mid-term exams

Lana Buu of The Freshman column writes about her "sense of doom" about that battery of papers and mid-term exams that usually hammer college students just ahead of the holiday break.

Here's an exerpt:

Midterms, for me, lasted four weeks. The continuous onslaught of papers and examinations brought me to my physical and mental limits. I slept only when I felt that I no longer had the capacity to process thought. I could not even enjoy a simple meal because my thoughts were inundated by what was on my to-do list.

I was a hermit. My friends thought I fell off the face of the Earth - until they caught a glimpse of me studying in the library and realized that midterms had taken hold of my life.