Quiz: How successful was your Winter Break?
January 18, 2006
An average day included:
a) Sleeping until 3 p.m.
b) Playing Xbox 360 all day
c) Working for the man
I spent my break working:
a) Working? A job? Oh, I didn’t have one of those.
b) Five weeks of retail hell
c) A sweet internship
I showered:
a) Whenever I started to smell
b) Every other day
c) Every morning when I woke up
I spent my weekends:
a) Being hung over. I spent my time trying to remember what I did. I’m pretty sure it involved a donkey, though.
b) Playing poker with my hometown buddies.
c) Dining out, followed by casual drinks with co-workers
The highlight of my break was:
a) When my parents left town for the weekend and I spent countless hours sleeping uninterrupted and threw that killer party
b) Every Friday when I received my oh-so-awesome minimum wage paycheck; It was still more money than I see during the semester.
c) Getting offered a full-time job in the spring
I left my house:
a) Only when my video games were due
b) 10 minutes before my scheduled shift
c) Every day for the 45 minute commute to my job
I spent New Year’s Eve:
a) New Year’s Eve? What was that? Was that why we were counting backwards?
b) Surrounded by friends at a house party
c) I stayed in because I had to work in the morning. Although, I must say I liked Dick Clark much better than Ryan Seacrest.
Every “a” you circled is worth 1 point, every “b” you circled is worth 2 points, and every “c” you circled is worth 3 points.
7 – 13: Congratulations, you are a bum. You accomplished a whole lot of nothing. Welcome back to tests, homework and boring lectures. Now unglue your eyes from the television and go to class.
14 – 17: Not bad, not bad. You were able to maintain a social life, while still putting some dough in the savings.
18 – 21: Whoa, slow down. We all grow up sometime, but not today. Go out and have some fun already.