Four more weeks

Dear fellow college students,
            There are four more weeks of classes.  For some (ME!), that is exciting!  It means I only have to keep up this break-neck pace of school-work-home for 28 more days!  It means my hard work is about to earn me some As to add to my transcript (poor use of grammar, I know...).
            But for some, this is do or die time.  You've slept in too often, skipped classes because it just didn't seem to matter, not even bothered to do your homework or reading.  And now, with 4 weeks left, it finally occurs to you that you are probably about to fail.  Before you start to blame the professor for grading so harshly, please stop and think about your own actions and the consequences of them.  I know, it's a hard thing to do.  But it will greatly benefit you in the future, even if this semester has gone to crap and it's too late to bring it back. 
            It's not too late to use this as a learning tool, the school of hard knocks, when you are taking the same classes again next semester.  Take this opportunity to better yourself, to learn that most of the good things in life are directly proportional to the WORK you put into them. 
            Please, for the love of pizza and wings, do not let me hear you whining about how it's everyone else's fault.  I'm just ornery enough in these last 4 weeks that I might call you out on that.

 Most sincerely,
 The grown woman who sits in class and listens to the whiners.
 Who has sacrificed and worked *hard* for good grades (they aren't free!).