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Just like that, after one frantic push, the quarter is over

What an incredibly stressful and busy week. Yesterday was the last day of the fall quarter for college, and I was able to complete the finals for English 102 and Philosophy 100.

For English, I had a 1500-word research and synthetic essay due at 9 am Wednesday and a brief one-page assignment to show how I met the general education goals for the class.

I completed the essay with editing help from my mom, a poet of 40 years and a bachelor’s degree in English, turning it in thirty-four minutes after midnight.

The essay became: Killing Your Darlings, Whedon the fake feminist.

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I just checked my grades, and they’re in: I got a B in English, and a B+ in philosophy!