The 13-Week Sprint!

College and university semesters are built on a 13-week period.  When I was so young that I played in a sandbox I'd have told you, "The summer is a really long time!"  It doesn't seem that way now!  8 weeks in July and August go by quickly. 

13 weeks is 1/4 of the year.  I have lots of time; there's reading week (ski week or whatever you might want to call it).  Yet we need to get immersed in a topic that is entirely new to us and go through some mysterious process by which we will feel comfortable with it by the end of the semester. 

It is a really short period of time.  It is much more concentrated than high school and part of our preparing for a working world where deadlines do loom and where we feel that others do rely on us. 

Like a good workout the semester will stretch us and tear us a bit, but we will grow stronger muscle because of it.  Launch well! 

Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland