Life Off-Label

If you’ve been studying all day, you reach a point late into the evening where your brain says, “Look, I can’t absorb anything else. This is enough for one day. It no longer matters how much caffeine you drink. I’m done.”

At one point, “The Planets” by Gustav Holst shuffled into my playlist, and then my studying was epic. By the way… I’m pretty sure that guy is John Williams’ idol. “The Imperial March” has “Mars” written all over it.

Speaking of me being a band nerd, here’s a random video I found while on a “study break” (aka getting distracted):

Percussion and Harry Potter… two of my loves united at last! The part that really caught my attention though was around 1:43 when he starts splitting 16th notes with himself. To get them to sound so uniform, just like as if one person is playing them, is hard enough to do with another person standing right next to you. But he does it in two separate shots! That takes absolutely flawless timing to get that to line up so well when you edit the video together. It’s possible he had a metronome going in the background that we can’t hear in the video, but I’m still impressed. Also… he’s 16.

You know how you know you’re lame? When your Saturday night consists of studying, YouTube-ing, and blogging. I miss the days of undergrad when playing beer pong was an acceptable way to study for finals. We also had dead week. Now we just have “What’s sleep?” week… for two weeks.

I can’t believe how quickly this semester flew by. I feel like it was last week that I was sitting in a chair, anxiously waiting to walk across the stage at the white coat ceremony. Seems like only a few days ago I was bubbling in answers on my first exam. Now I’m studying for finals. Time flies when you’re having fun, and I had a bit of that, but I think time flies faster when you’re kept so friggin’ busy.

One more week!