2008 Woodie Awards
View this section's front page!Imagine a place where time seems to fly by faster than the speed of light. A place where a human being can survive on two hours of sleep and an energy drink. A place where textbooks and notes become your whole world. Welcome to finals week. So maybe finals aren't quite that serious, but with finals week coming up quickly, many students are already buckling down to get those extra study hours.
All good things must come to an end. Another end to a semester and school year-both of whose ends are rapidly approaching-are bringing with them a little something known as finals week. Although college students' feelings about finals often include wanting to pull their hair out and run screaming from campus, how do the professors feel about this week? After all, they're the ones who often have to grade the finals.
The awful F word. Finals. Endless hours in the library, countless cups of coffee and last minute cram-sessions are among the many issues that students deal with during this hectic week. But one thing that students may never think twice about during finals is food.
Shelby Foote, the late novelist and historian of the Civil War, once said, "A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library." With finals week approaching, perhaps this quote is even truer. But while most people stereotypically think that a library is a quiet area, where there is little talking and noses in books, times have changed.
Slap on some aviators, put on a helmet, buckle your seat belt, double knot your shoelaces, synchronize your watches, hold onto your butts and get ready for the full-throttle action parody "Hot Fuzz." Brought to you by the same masterminds that brought the clever zombie tribute "Shaun of the Dead," "Hot Fuzz" is a takeoff on just about every action movie ever made, including some distinct shout-outs to the Keanu Reeves heist flick, "Point Break" and the Martin Lawrence/Will Smith action sequel "Bad Boys II.
Since March 2003, the war in Iraq has dominated the news. On an almost daily basis, television and newspapers report the latest deadly attacks and the number of soldiers and civilians killed. This constant bombardment of statistics has desensitized many Americans to the fact that human beings are being killed in large numbers.
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