I get the feeling that this is an action I will repeat over and over during the trials to come. The cursor on my computer screen blinks relentlessly like a slit-eyed Cyclops and I shift my gaze from it towards the garage sale Buddha on my windowsill as every decent idea for a paper eludes me. Closer inspection of these placid people reveals fingernails chewed down to the quick and a certain bleary eyed look that can be explained with lack of sleep.
Some panic is healthy.
It gives you the incentive to chug yet another bottle of Mountain Dew and finish all of your last minute assignments. But when you begin to get all red-eyed and twitchy is when something needs to be done. If you don t have the luxury of sleep, its time to take drastic measures to survive the finals endurance race. No Doz is helpful but not necessarily healthy. The same goes for excessively caffeinated beverages.