We'reeee Baaaack!

Avenue Q is much praised and awarded Musical which has run both on and off Broadway for several seasons. It features puppets and 'real' characters who together explore the dilemma a recent college graduate faces after graduation. Avenue Q was composed by college graduates (so people do actually graduate.) In honor of your return after a much too short winter break here is one of the songs performed by the original cast, I Wish I Could Go Back To College.

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Just A Note Before You Go.

The traditional break is looming and so the traditional Planet College advisory about Thanksgiving applies as it does every year at this time. Read it here. Read it carefully.

Planet College Tip: Boxes

As an average student you've noticed you move a lot. Off to campus, off to summer school, back home for a term, off for a semester overseas. Moving inevitably involves boxes and around the time you are moving so is every one else. Leaving boxes around campus in short supply. This will take some foresight but most copy places go through a lot of boxes, copy paper boxes. These boxes are sturdy, commodious and have fully covering tops. Ideal for moving and storing. This may take some foresight, something else which is in short supply around campus at any time,but- sometime before, well before your next moving day go by the campus copy center and ask how many boxes they can spare. Even if it is just one, snag it. Get there early and go back often. You are not the only one who knows about boxes from the copy center. By your next moving day you should have enough boxes stored up to pack up neatly. You may even have a few left that you can help out your suite mates with.

The Turkey Trap.

The work load for most students on Planet College accumulates during the course of the term. Papers, projects, portfolios all pile up with due dates seeming distant. Many students defer working on one or more of these with and optimistic, "I'll do it over break." Break comes, usually Thanksgiving or Spring, a good time is had by all. On the returning journey back to campus many students awaken from a pleasant mid-flight snooze with the sudden awareness,"Oh. My. God. I've got a paper due for my ten o'clock class and I haven't even started it." Sound familiar? Probably. I call this The Turkey Trap. Don't fall for it. If you're an average student, next time you hear your self say, "Oh, I'll do it over break." Get real. You will not. That is what break is for. A time out. Kick back. Party. School? Fugggaadddaboutit. Take a break.