MID-SEMESTER CRISIS HITS THE STUDIOS Singapore: Recent sightings of seemingly lifeless bodies around the NUS Architecture Studios have confirmed experts’ prediction of the onset of the Mid-Semester Crisis.
Mid-Semester Crisis (MSC) is a term used to describe the general apathy, lack of a social life, sleep and enthusiasm that reigns the campus every (as the name says) mid-semester. Other identifiable symptoms include mass hysteria outside Scalebar, swearing in the model workshop and an air of brain-death lingering in the lecture room.
“I even saw one person concussed on the corridor floor!” Witnesses, who paperspace spoke to, painted a disturbing picture of the situation. “People were concussed everywhere! On the studio desks, in the DDLs, in the lecture theaters... I even saw one person concussed on the corridor floor!”, described
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The spread of the epidemic can also be seen via social networking sites, such as Facebook and Twitter. Statuses such as “ALARM CLOCK Y U NO RING OMGOMG” have been flooding these social networking sites, garnering the ‘likes’ of fellow sufferers and those who emphathise. Experts have mixed opinions about this occurrence. Some are adamant that they are perfectly normal, while others expressed their concern. “It’s only normal... Why sleep any way? Sleeping is nothing but a waste of time”, said one of the experts. According to another expert. “research shows that you should attempt to wake a concussed student up if his/ her model is <56.24% complete”. Moreover, the experts reiterated the importance of skillfullyexecuted wake up calls. “Rather than shouting “Wake up!” as people usually do, try telling the
concussed individual that he/ she has an unread message or missed call on his/her phone”. The Creating & Relaxing In Tandem (CRIT) Panel has also recommended a remedy for sufferers of the Mid-Semester Crisis - a regular dose of paperspace after every 6 hours of work. In particular, the Panel recommended articles such as the Crossword Puzzle, Music Review and Ask AutoCat. Paperspace can be obtained at various locations across the faculty. The Executive President In alLOcating G.f.a. (EPILOG) said, in a statement released yesterday, “While it is not an antidote, It is our hope that paperspace will provide temporary relief from the symptoms of MSC. A relapse is highly possible, but we’ll deal with that when time comes.” *Name altered to protect the witness from any defamation lawsuits.
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