There's a rhythm to the academic quarter. It starts out slowly enough, lulling you into thinking that not only can you keep up with the work, but maybe you can even get ahead. Then, right at Week 5, it sneaks up behind you with a bit of lead piping and lets you have it. After mid-terms and that middle set of assignments, things seem to slow down again, but they're never really quite the same.

This is Week 5.