midterms week in the tropics is kind of like everything in the tropics: intense. the sun is intense, the storms are intense, the water color is intense, and yeah, taking the exams was a little bit like running into a metal pole….i speak only from experience.
however, this week was good for something i suppose, aside from like actually getting my academic knowledge of resource management, marine ecology, and environmental policy and economics tested, and that is garnering a number of excellent procrastination techniques.
okay, i thought i had the put-stuff-off game on lock, but damn, i'm learning a lot here (mom, i know you're proud). take the night before our marine ecology final for example. i received twerking lessons, did a whole lot of headstands, got a seahorse tattoo (not permanent of course, mom you can stop hyperventilating), decided it was suddenly imperative for me to be clean so i showered, and helped paint the toenails of a friend (he's a dude) who had fallen asleep in the hammock. did i get a lot of studying done? not really. did i regret the next day during the exam? absolutely. did i do many of the same things the next night before my environmental policy class? um duh.
another lucrative procrastination technique i've picked up here is hopping in the water. with ocean all around (i mean we are on an island), it's sometimes impossible to resist the siren song of the water, plus sometimes i feel semi-academic looking at marine organisms. look! a fish! biology. so the afternoon before my last exam, i was not in the library but instead out paddling around at HDL. and i saw an eagle ray, a barracuda eating, and a sea turtle, so you tell me if i made the wrong decision. i'll let you know when grades come out.
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