Finals week

It sounds so, well, so final.  Finals week.  Could we maybe just call it assessment week, or metric-scale week, or how about this--wrap week?  Someone asked Laurence Taylor years ago, as he prepared for the Super Bowl, how he felt being part of the greatest spectacle in sports, and he asked, "aren't they having it again next year?"  Just so, no test is ever final; no assessment lasts all that long; and, at my age especially, memory competes with an egg timer, so are we not having 'finals' again next quarter? 
On a more fanciful note, it is good to be off for a time, to catch up with a few movies, and to experience the odd sensation of reading a book I will not be tested on.  Then, come January 4, it will be back on campus, digging in, getting through another Winter Q at OSU, a quarter during which one actually looks forward to finals.  I sure hope the heat's been fixed in Denney Hall.