Ah, the fall semester of college. The best times and the worst times. The fall semester is a rough couple of months. It comes after having a lot of time away from school, that is unless you take part in summer courses. Even if you spend your summer working, volunteering, or doing an internship, when you check out of school for four months, it's tough to get back. By November, most people have hit the wall.

For me personally, for the first time in my college life, I hit the wall in the middle of September. The stress and the balancing act I was attempting completely overtook me. I don't find it discouraging, I find it rather hilarious actually. Because I normally would be hitting the wall now and as of right now I'm about 110% done with this semester. And the worst part is, we're only at Thanksgiving break.

But these couple of weeks coming up are the weeks that make or break the entire semester. If you let yourself hit the wall and fall into terrible habits before all of your papers, projects, and finals come, you're in bad shape. You have to find it in you to keep going, it could seriously be the difference between a 3.8 and a 3.3.

We are in the home stretch of the fall semester ladies and gentlemen. What do we have to look forward to? Winter break. For some of us, that's a month off. For some lucky people that go to Delaware, that's almost like two months off! That's amazing. The holidays come, for whatever religion you are. For me it's Christmas. I get to eat a lot of food and watch my nephews open gifts and then kill each other and torment all of the adults. It reminds me of what I was like when I was five. Then there's New Years. I may be a little biased but I'm not sure if there's anything better than being in New York for New Years.

But if you screw up the semester you might not get to enjoy it as much. Your friends all come home and they talk about how great things went for them. Your parents get mad at you. You don't feel that great about things.

So keep on keeping on. Don't die at the end of November, keep pushing and make it through to the end. You get to be rewarded when it's all said and done!