[quote=Captain Jordan]
That's what I tell myself whenever I see another round of Freshmen each year. I spent the millennium new year's at a friend's house. It was supposed to be this whole, big affair, but the ball dropped in New York like every other year. An hour later (and no Y2K bug in sight), I watched the footage of the ball drop and then went to sleep. Got up the next day and everything was normal.Don't worry, you missed nothing special.
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The way I look at it is everyone has their hand in life. You just have to play it to the best of your abilities. Reality is most students need to work while going to school, sometimes doing both at the same time. (Full time at that.) Sadly that isn't an easy thing to do for most students. I ended up cutting into my sleep to get things done (4/ hr sleep a night + nap when I could.) Not the healthiest thing to do, but in the end you gotta do what you gotta do. 

C'est la vie.