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God’s Sick Joke

Do you ever notice how the weather always just begins to get nice during exam week? Up here in the northeast, winter has suddenly thawed with 75 degree weather and cloudless skies. This presents an enormous temptation to students looking to go to class, study for finals, and finish the semester strong. Plenty of students begin their track towards class with perfectly good intentions only to get sidetracked by a game of ultimate frisbee or football. Despite the promises of fly fishing that a late May in upstate New York (my home) ultimately holds for me, the need for sunny relaxation rears its ugly head every time I cross the academic quad.

The nerd in me would love to see whether or not there is a statistical correlation between the warm weather and lower exam grades. Someone could have an outstanding senior thesis if they tracked changes in average temperature and grades over the final month of school. First semester exam grades, when the temperatures hover about 10 degrees, could be compared to the second semester, when students first break out their shorts and flip-flops. I would love to see a piece done on this is it hasn’t been done already.