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By Colette Hutchings
Battalion Staff
FOOD FOR FINALS (Also known as food for thought)
If you think now is a good time to go on a diet, forget it.
Good nutrition and hearty meals are a must during finals week.
Face it, studying takes a lot of vitamins, minerals and energy out of
you. Besides, how else will clean out the refrigerator before you go
home?
Below are some meal suggestions which may help you survive
the week and give you those extra vitamins, minerals and caffeine
needed by studious young college students.
Most of the ingredients are in your pantry or fridge and need to
be used before you leave for home or else they'll spoil.
If you're on board plan, you can still play along. Go to a friend's
apartment and live and eat there for a week.
Breakfast food
Contrary to popular belief, you must wake up some time or
another (if you went to bed at all) and vou'll need food to make it
through the day. If you don't plan on sleeping this week, fine, use
these ideas for other meals.
Stale Cheerios with milk. This may either put you back to sleep or
make you think you've just consumed a piece of cardboard.
(Check the box before pouring the cereal into bowl — many a
coupon has been eaten after creeping into cereal bowls this way.)
Peanut butter and
1) jelly
2) bananas
3) mayonnaise
Doughnuts. Chocolate-covered provide caffeine, jelly-filled are
loaded with vitamin C and other preservatives and sugar- or
cinnamon-covered will give you the quick energy you need to
open those books.
Leftover Pizza. Usually this meal is warmed up in a conventional
oven and eaten for lunch. Eaten for breakfast, however, pizza
should be cold. This can be a real eye-opener if the toppings are
onions, green peppers and anchovies.
Breakfast in a Glass. Mix all of the above in a blender with one raw
egg and drink. Cheers.
Lunch (or Mid-day foods)
Usually lunch is eaten after breakfast, but depending on how
serious you are about studying for finals, you should be hungry
after about two to three waking hours of studying. These meal
ideas may not fill you up but at least they'll help clean out the
refrigerator.
Soup. Canned, Styrofoamed-packed or individually wrapped-
cubes. Put in saucepan and heat. Soup doesn't spoil, but it cooks
fast and can be nutritious.
Lettuce Sandwiches. Lettuce is usually eaten in salads, but since
you'll probably be out of salad dressing you need to have some
thing to eat it with. Take two slices of bread, spread with mustard
or mayonnaise and eat. Maybe you won't even realize the meat is
missing.
Quiche Lorraine with watercress and teacakes for dessert. You prob
ably won't have this on hand. You'll have to go out for this. Take a
date or a faithful roomie. (Note: they treat.)
Fruit. Individual produce like bruised apples, pears, oranges
and bananas can be diced and cubed. If fruit is still salvageable
after doing so, cut bruised parts off and eat in a "surprise salad." If
bananas are black, save for making bread. Throw them away last
thing before you leave for home, because you won't have time to
make the bread.
Canned fruit that's been stored in airtight containers for 4 weeks
in your refrigerator will probably be fermented or molded, so
either throw away now, or do the above. If your fruit is not too
black, put it in the blender and say it's a health mixture.
Vegetables. It's always tough to think of creative things to do with
wilted celery, carrots, potatoes and onions. So take the easy way
out. For lunch, throw them all in a pot of boiling water with salt
and pepper and cook the little devils. Who knows, maybe cooking
wilted vegetables makes them more tender.
Food for Dinner
Dinner is the time to do more scrounging or send or go out for
meals. If you choose the latter, take plenty of cash and change.
Most fast food places don't take checks, so you have to prepare for
this.
Finals
that studying isn't too high on any
one's list of fun things to do. But
next week is the week when it real
ly counts. It's do or die, study or
fail.
Procrastination, coffee and
mathematics are the order of the
day, as students spend a frantic
week fretting over test scores and
grade points.
If you take all the time you will
probably spend computing and re-
countdown
You really shouldn't even be
reading this. You should be study
ing for finals.
But that's okay. We wrote it
when we should have been
studying.
So. We have established the fact
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SUNDAY BEFORE FINALS
Panic.
Go to church. You need it now
more than ever. Then go out for
Sunday dinner with friends. Go to
a movie.
Around 9 p.m., decide to study
for the next day's finals. (Consump
tion of massive cjuantities of caffeine
starts here.)
Laundry: Should you or
shouldn't you?
Doing laundry takes up a lot of
time, which no one has to spare at
this time. But at some point you
must choose between clean under
wear and good grades.
To help you decide if you should
take a trip to the laundromat, Focus
has analyzed both sides of the
issue. The decision is yours.
Pro (for): Doing laundry takes up
time which would otherwise be
spent studying. People will be
more likely to speak to you if you
are wearing clean clothes. Every
one else is studying, so there will
probably be washers open.
Con (against): You can wash free
at home next week. You probably
don't have any quarters left. Peo
ple are always grubby during finals
anyway; a little extra dirt can't
hurt. Brush your teeth and no one
will notice. (Save one clean outfit
for grovelling to professors — see
Thursday of Finals Week.)
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MONDAY OF FINALS WEEK
Either you're well on your way to
doom and destruction, or you have
had an extra day of nail-biting be
fore embarking on a week of
futility.
Keep the coffeepot perking. Start
a list of things to remember to take
home with you, and add to it all
week.
Don't forget your toothbrush
Don't leave all the wonderful
Christmas presents you've round
ed up at school. Be sure to take
pajamas.
Take that novel you've been
trying to read all semester.
Take only enough money for pit
stops on the way home. In a round
about way, make sure mom and
dad know about your sad financial
position. They will feel sorry for
you and give you money to go out
on. (Make sure your Christmas
present is wrapped and under the
tree if you're going for big bucks.)
MONDAY DEC. 14
Classes Meeting Exam Time
MWF 8 or
MWF 7:30-8:30 8-10 a.m.
MWF 1 or
MWF 12:30-1:30 11-1 p.m.
TTH 8-9:15 or
TTH 7:30-8:45 2-4 p.m.
MW 5-6:15 or
MW 4:30-5:45 5-7p.m.
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TUESDAY OF FINALS WEEK
Nearly everybody has had at
least one test by now. Some obnox-
iuos people will have the nerve to
leave for home. Do not offer to help
them pack their cars. If you feel a
strong wave of good samaritanism,
tote a pile of things out to the car
then drop it on the ground as you
put it in. Apologize, and say
you've heard there is a storm be
tween here and their home.
How to act stupid
Anybody who's still around by
this time is probably suffering from
a bad case of the loonies. You can
do things you wouldn't normally
do, and they will be accepted as
perfectly rational behavior by the
rest of us nuts.
Ride around with your car win
dows down and yell at people. (Be
ware of people who wear sunglas
ses at night.) Go to the grocery
store and play with the toys. At a
restaurant, try to balance the salt
shaker on salt crystals, and put
sugar in the napkin holder so the
next person gets sprayed. Giggle,
making sure your hand is over
your mouth.
TUESDAY DEC. 15
Classes Meeting Exam Time
MWF 9 or
MWF 8:30-9:30 8-10 a.m.
MWF 2 or
MWF 1:30-2:30 11-lp.m.
TTH 9:30-10:45 or
TTH 8:30-9:45 2-4 p.m.
TTH 5-6:15 or
TTH 4-5:15 5-7 p.m.