I Feel It In My Fingers...

The end is in sight! I can count the hours until I am free for Christmas break - 44 and one half hours from right now. All I have left to do for my last exam is to study like mad, say a few dozen prayers, and sacrifice a freshman to the exam gods. Studying like mad is not so bad, come to think of it. I pulled an all-nighter last night studying for my Botany exam that took place this past morning. Even though I didn't get any sleep, I was wide awake while I studied. Runners experience a runner's high and I think that those who take studying to extremes experience a similar high. Of course, the elated and alert feelings may just be the result of hours of tedious work finally paying off when you can determine that Selaginella is the only vascular cryptrogam to exhibit heterospory and endosporic development of the gametophyte in addition to exhibiting anisophylly, or when you can explain why one resonance structure of carbon dioxide is favored over another because of the minimized formal charge and the placement of any negative formal charge on the most electronegative atom, or you can identify the species of Australopithecus that lived in South Africa from 2 to 1.7 million years ago, with heavy facial buttressing including a sagittal crest, extreme anterior zygomatics, and anterior pillars or when you can see the Moorish influence in the Spanish word Ojalá (may Allah grant). But now, I've been awake for two days and I'm ready to crash. Tomorrow, onward with my studying, and then I'll meet and overcome the last barrier to my Christmas vacation. ¡Deséame suerte!