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Finishing exams is, we at FlyBy imagine, somewhat like giving birth (please don't ask our moms to confirm the validity of this analogy). You carry around the increasing weight of your impending exams/term papers/end of year project, bragging about its current size until you either spend an excruciating night pushing—and pushing, and pushing, and pushing—the thing into existence, or you exhaust yourself for a quick-but-painful three hours of labor...
...here's an easy rule of thumb: don't do anything around someone who isn't finished with exams that you wouldn't do around a pregnant woman. FlyBy has compiled a handy list of specific examples to help follow this rule...
...Quit bragging. So you wrote six papers in 72 hours without sleeping or leaving Lamont or eating anything you didn't buy from a vending machine. It's over. Others are still carrying around the Miracle of Life [Sci 1B study guides], and hearing about your ordeal and/or your post exam shennanigans isn't making it any easier. Stop blabbering and give your exam-bound friends a foot...
...Crimson tied things right back up in the fourth, when Krysiak got the rally going with a one-out double of her own. After Schellberg popped up and Shaw walked, Ferri brough Krysiak around with a single to left...
Demands to know Venables’s new crime reek of hysterical persecution and desire for revenge. The 1993 murder sent a jolt throughout Britain, and disgust at the event lead to adults crowding around the court, where they banged on the children’s van, thirsty for retribution. Similarly, the desire for information about the new crime of an ex-convict seems to be a product of natural but legally unreasonable anger. Comparably strong emotions affected the original trial, and the European Court of Human Rights later ruled that the high scrutiny and “incomprehensible...