Final Day of Finals Week.

As a graduate student at UND, who also lives on campus, and took a significant amount of credits over the summer during the MFA program, this is one of the happiest days of the year.  Not only do things transition to a different pace of life and season of fun things to do, the undergraduates students, for the most part, are gone.  The studios open up and are generally quiet to get a lot done.  I've wondered over the past few years is it troubling that as a future educator that I am so relieved when students leave?  I know faculty are ready for their breaks too.  I suspect that I will be as well when I am teaching.  Now though, as a graduate student, I suspect it is pure selfishness.  Not in a mean spirited way, because many of the undergrads are great to have around.  But there is something to having those workspaces all to oneself.  And since I dont have money for a press and studio of my own, UND's will have to suffice until that time.  For all my friends out there teaching and struggling to finish grading...strength and peace be with you.