It was the night before finals when all through the campus

Every student was cramming

Except for one student, who was making a fuss

 

“I hate the holidays,” said the student with malice.

The tests, and the papers and all this analysis

I’ve been writing so much my fingers are calloused.

 

Well no more, I’m feed up to here, he said with a frown

I’m done with this year and I won’t back down.

 

So he put down his pencils, his keyboard and laptop

And hung out and watched Netflix

Right there in the coffee shop

 

YouTube and Netflix and even Hulu

He watched that Grinch Movie with Cindy Lou Who

 

And it was during that movie that he had an idea

He would go to the library to share his new panacea

 

I’ll shout in the library and clear the place out

No one shall study, not while I’m about

 

As he marched to the library he got quite a fright,

An email arrived late in the night

 

“You’re failing a class” The email read

If you do not pass it you might end up dead.

 

I better not think of causing this ruckus

I should spend all night studying

I need to learn it. I’m done making a fuss

 

So he sat down at a table and opened a book

And he studied and studied in the quiet little library nook

 

He hoped if he passed Santa would bring him that fifth of Jaeger

Because after these finals he’s throwing a huge Christmas rager.

-Adam Hribar, Contributor