This semester Lander University tried something new. We decided to make classes on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday just fifty minutes each. On Tuesday's and Thursday's classes are an hour and fifteen minutes each. Because of the changing of the schedule Lander University started earlier than we usually do.

Lander University was one of the last schools to start classes at the beginning of September but this year we decided to change it up a bit. Because of this it has changed our Fall Break. While just about every university in the Upstate of South Carolina had their Fall Break about two weeks ago, Lander University has not.

The students and the faculty are not too happy with this. We have been doing this "college" thing August to October without a break. We won't be having our Fall Break until November seventh and eighth for voting purposes. WE THE STUDENTS are outraged.

We believe that this is ultimately unacceptable. We are tired. We are drained. We are lacking motivation. But we are still chugging along in hopes that Fall Break will come soon. We had midterms just a few weeks ago and we have yet to recover from doing so.

Although, we do get "breaks" during the weekend to "relax" or whatever you would like to call it. Those days fly by. But in all honesty, during the weekend I am still doing homework to stay caught up.

This semester has been totally different than any previous of mine at Lander University. I have never been so busy and only focused on school in my life. I'm not sure the cause of this but I'm sure Lander has something up their sleeve because it is not just me that feels I am consumed by school, my peers do also.

Just about two more weeks to go and we can see the bright light at the end of the tunnel.

Keep pushing. We will receive breaks again.