"I want to utilize myself all over," says Janie to Pheoby in Their Eyes Were Watching God.
We woke this morning when it was still dark. We put the words, the handwritten and typed, into our minds. We formed the mental pictures and built the cognitive structures, and then took the walk up to our respective places of trial.
Liz and Heather and I had been up most of the night, so our thoughts were as gloomy as the early morning world while we tried to put smiles on our last finals of the week. 8 until 10 passed, and when we emerged the clingy darkness had been replaced by a morning, still fresh at the middle. I had one more exam to go, so I took it and then took a nap in similar form, and when I awoke the air was just as light as before. The day was new. A breeze whispered, "time for beginning again." But then we walked to say goodbye to good friends leaving for the year, part of the endless paradox of starts and ends.
now all that's left is to clean--the apartment, the clothing, the body, the mind--and to prepare for fresh utilization: no more studying, the throwing out of quizzes to make room for gift-making projects and rebuilding what was lost in the long long night.
Nice post. I always kind of liked exams. I was glad to have some kind of culminating experience the last few days of school. And a few times I felt like I had learned a lot that semester.
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