Finals Week

It's finals week out there for most of us in college--and if you're not having finals this week or not even in college, just go away for now. It is probably really typical for everyone to "brag" about their procrastination or how much of a studying-zombie they become during this week. But let's try to find some middle ground. 

Cramming in studying the night before each final will not get you that A or high grade you want. You may get lucky and it can happen, but not very likely. The best thing you can do, is to just study very effectively. Skimming through all your notes from the entire semester is completely useless. Try out a website like studyblue.com to make your studying more effective. And get your classmates on it too so you have a greater network/more study materials!

If you're that Comm major who just has to turn in one paper and give one speech in a class, leave campus for a majority of the week. No one wants you here. No wants to hear how bored you are or how much free time you have. You are literally, in the minds of everyone with a real finals schedule for this week, the scum of the earth. After that last day of finals, you can reappear on campus and do not mention anything about your lack of being a real student.

And for those normal people with an average stress load, try as hard as you can to keep it to yourself. You are not the only student with finals. Complaining to your roommate while he is trying to memorize Organic Chemistry mechanisms while you recite some random string of Excel formulas that you have to learn for your business final is NOT worth anyone's time. 

If you're looking for some de-stressing tips and blah blah, check out LesDivaDiaries post!

The Top 5 Overplayed Songs on the Radio

These are the only songs that are on the radio within every hour. In some instances, they've ended up on two of the three radio stations. And one rare occasion, one song on three different stations at the same time... Listen to them again here:

5. Somebody that I Used to Know
It's not indie or hipster if it's on three Top 40 radio stations at once.

4. Payphone
You're stuck at a payphone all day because they got disconnected in the last decade.

3. Give Your Heart a Break
How about we get a break from you crying all the time...

2. Niggas in Paris
We get it. Kanye and Jay-Z are fucking boss.

1. Call Me Maybe
The one song that cannot get too old or annoying, unless someone other than yourself starts to sing along and you need to shoot them. And watch this parody for a lawl:

Texting Trolls

I have come to the point in my life where the main form of communication I maintain with people, is through text messaging. Texting more people and more frequently will eventually lead to one encountering the dreadful texting troll. What is a texting troll? A texting troll is pretty much anyone that can cause any sort of annoyance to you due to texting. Let's take for example someone who you just met at a party and you exchange numbers. A texting troll will repeatedly text you throughout the night trying to reconnect even though you are obviously preoccupied. Or it could they could be the opposite. Say you have a lunch plans with a friend and he or she is such a troll that they will not respond to your texts until they arrive at the location only to text you, "where are you?" Texting troll. Don't be one. Stay away from them.

Here are some signs of a texting troll:

• Respond to your text with something out of the blue and irrelevant
• Fail to respond within an appropriate time frame
• Respond way too quickly
• Use grammar that makes the message completely incomprehensible
• Repeatedly resend basically the same message
• Send message as an iMessage and then as a text message (iPhones only)
• Respond to a text you sent in a group text in a different thread (iPhones only)
• Turn off their iMessage and send messages through text (iPhones only)
• Double texting
• One word responses

If you do any of the previous things, stop. Now.

Example of a multiple offender.

In some urgent cases, repeat messages are necessary.

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