If months were things, October would be a freight train — a freight train heading in your direction while you are tied to the tracks unable to protect yourself from the impending doom. Each year, October passes through and for the 31 days of the month, the lives of university students are made a living hell. With its arsenal of midterms, essays, reports, and projects, October comes fully loaded, with the safety off and no regard to the well-being of students. Each semester, the figurative warmth and caress of September and its relatively calm schedule comfort students, but the next month comes and like wild animals abandoned by their mothers not long after birth, we are left to fend for ourselves while the hungry October approaches. It’s like Alien vs. Predator, except with no aliens and students in their place. Student vs. Predator. Though October has been conquered, students cannot be at rest for long as November and December, like October, are the ugly sisters of Cinderella and shall continue to make our lives hell.
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