Test Time

There is a time in the semester where professors must be getting together and planning to collectively annihilate students.  I think they purposefully plan all tests, papers, and major assignments to be due within the same span of one to two weeks. This happens several times each semester, but I just hit the first wave. Because of all the work to be done to prepare for the first volley of fire this semester, I have to spend all of my free time reading, studying, or writing papers. It does not help that tons of student organizations seem to be magnetically attracted to this week or two when planning monthly meetings. Because of all of this going on, I have had to ask for a very limited work schedule, which means taking a cut in pay for this period of time. Just when I would want to have some cash to treat myself to a nice dinner out with some friends or something else to celebrate finishing all of these assignments, I will not have the money because I did not work my normal schedule the previous two weeks. It just seems like a lose-lose situation.