The acquisition of knowledge requires effort and hours, and judgement day awaits with its demands of familiarity and understanding. Then the scale tips, the old balance is skewed. Work hard, study harder. In quiet or a crowd, the application of the mind, the quest to know, is paramount. Time becomes precious, the idle moments before a lecture are filled with study.
Study overtakes recreation, cultural pursuits, even social moments.
I'd like to, but I have to study. The flurry subsides with a sigh, a breather, and then another semester with more to study.