The perfect backdrop for your studying shenanigans

If you’ve been spending your days and nights in Butler for the past week and haven’t noticed, it’s been fucking beautiful out lately. Instead of staying cooped up in the library catching up on all the readings you missed or plowing through study guides, enjoy the warmth and sunlight while studying for your exams in ways that are more exciting and fun! Bwog is pleased to bring you our list of absurd ways to learn your material while exposing yourself to natural light.

Studying for the sciences? Buy some chalk and take to College Walk. Drawing out your equations, whether they be physics, chem, bio, math, or anything similar, will help you get some sun and have some fun while still memorizing what you need to know for the exam. Like the amount of light absorbed by the gray paver stones.

Do you have a listening section on your Music Hum final? Instead of sticking on some headphones and hitting the books, grab a stereo and a jump rope, head to the lawns, and blast that Bach while jump roping to keep, and by osmosis, learn the tempo. You can even shout out the info you need to know every time you jump!

Studying evolution? Find a prime location on the Sundial or Low Steps, and just watch people make their way around campus. You’ll discover things about our species that you never knew before! You could always do the same in Butler, but doesn’t that get old?

Remember this final remark from LitHum prof. Grace Delmolino? Yeah? Well, take some really personal Montaigne essays, make like Fox’s Jesse Watters, and read them to randos on the street. You’ll certainly learn something new, maybe even find your inner teacher, but just know that you’ll likely get a few “Shut the fuck up”s and death glares.

If you need to procrastinate after all that studying, here’s a fun way to do so: Hand-wash all the laundry you haven’t done in three weeks. The fountains could be of great use in this task.

Back to studying, kiddos: If/when someone asks you a question, even something as simple as “How do I find the subway?” answer as Confucius might. For example, “It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop” or “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”

Alternatively, stroll on down to Riverside Park with a book of Buddha’s teachings, hop on a bench, begin reading aloud, and suddenly you might find people adhering to you as they did to Him.

Buy and consume 15-20 cans of Campbell’s soup—it’s probably all you’re eating anyway in the midst of finals—and use the wrappers to get in Andy Warhol’s headspace before you write that essay on pop art.

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