This light of history is pitiless; it has this strange and divine quality that, all luminous as it is, and precisely because it is luminous, it often casts a shadow just where we saw a radiance; of the same man it makes two different phantoms, and the one attackes and punishes the other, and the darkness of the despot struggles with the splendour of the captain. Hence results a truer measure in the final judgement of the nations. Babylon violated lessens Alexander; Rome enslaved lessens Caesar; massacred Jerusalem lessends Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. It is woe to a man to leave behind him a shadow which has his form.

Victor Hugo

Procrastination at its greatest, my friends

A year has 365 days for you to study. After taking away 52 Sundays there are 313 days left. There are 50 days in the summer-too hot to work so there are only 263 days left. We sleep 8 hours a day, thats 122 days a year, so we're left with 141 days. If we just sat around for only 1 hour a day, 15 days are gone, left with 126 days. We spend 2 hours eating each day, 30 days are used in the year, and we are left with 96 days in our year. We spend 1 hour a day speaking to friends and family, that takes away 15 days more and left with 81 days. Exams/tests take up at least 35 days a year; hence only left with 46 days. Taking off approx 40 days of holidays, you are only left with 6 days. Say you are sick for a minimum of 3 days; that leaves 3 days in the year to study! Let's say you only go out 2 days. This means you are left with 1 day! And that 1 day is your birthday!