Winter in Provo means one thing, Finals!!! Now to some finals is just another test but to the rest of us it is the one week that can destroy our future as human beings. Ok so I exaggerate a little, but it doesn't change the fact that we hate finals. To be honest I don't think finals should be allowed in academia, test usually don't show a student's knowledge about a subject, so why do we take them, and why should one simple test have such a huge impact on my final grade, which could determine if I can get into the program that I want too. Maybe it's just the the whole idea of educational Darwinism, if you are willing to study enough to get a good grade on a final you might actually have a good work ethic.
Now that I got the whole finals thing out of the way there is something else we have to survive during this wonderful time of year, commercialization. With Christmas I always like to see the lights and the specials on TV but really, does ever single famous artist have to release a Christmas Album with every single Christmas song ever written. Don't get me wrong I love Christmas music, but that doesn't mean I have to hear someone like Justin Beiber sing Chestnuts Roasting on an open fire considering that Nat King Cole recorded a better one back in the day, and by the way Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer should not have an electric guitar solo in the middle of it. I you are an aspiring musician and want to hit it big, write an ORIGINAL and timeless Christmas song and release it sometime around the 10th of December, it worked in for the guys in the 50s.
