Reading a book about summer while we’re all stuck in school is almost cruel. Here we are, staggering through the last weeks of an insane year, and Benji is off in Sag with tons of time on his hands. This post was supposed to be about Benji’s summer goals, but I’m just going to write about the it’s-almost-summer apathy that comes around this time of year because that’s on my mind. The last weeks of school are both terrible and wonderful. Everyone is burnt out and exhausted from long months of the educational grind, so all our motivation has been replaced by apathy. Each day it’s more difficult to find the will to go to class or finish assignments, but the constant threat of finals keeps us halfway stuck on the academic hamster wheel. Instead of dutifully keeping up with our responsibilities, Uni students use May for a variety of spontaneous activities. Personally, I’ve discovered the wonderful sense of freedom that comes from skipping physics. I’ve also been spending mor...