A Hard Day's Night

At Penn State, it seems like every three weeks or so, all of the professors get together and scheme against us.  “These kids have been having too much fun lately.  This week, let’s do everything we can to just destroy them.”  And then, all in the span of a few days, we’re pounded.  Every class demands something else.  Each exam calls for another night of studying.  Each project begs us to squeeze out more creativity from our already exhausted minds.  It is during weeks like these when I am reminded of the Beatles’ A Hard Days Night from their album of the same name.  A Hard Day’s Night is a song about a guy who works really, really hard, and at the end of the day, his mind and body beg him to sleep.  I know we can all relate to that!

However, everything works out for this guy in the song.  As the lyrics continue, he finally leaves his workload behind and heads home.  There, he is greeted by a woman who loves him.  Suddenly, he doesn’t care about sleep anymore, because this girl is exactly what he needs to wind down and relax.  Despite the struggles of his day, being with her makes him feel “all right.”

It’s kind of the same at Penn State.  Maybe we don’t all come home to a caring lover who will take away the stress of day the (and maybe some of us do), but we still know how to have a good time after “It’s been a hard day’s night.”  Whenever “I’ve been working like a dog,” and brew another pot of coffee at 3am to finish the paper I have to write and the debate I have to prepare and the video presentation that needs put together and the four exams I have to study for, I know “I should be sleeping like a log.”  But that’s not what I do.  I want to spend time with the people who will “Make me feel all right.”  We’re working hard because we’ve got big goals to accomplish, “So why on Earth should I moan?”  I’m motivated to keep pushing through the workload, because I know that, “When I get home to you, I find the things that you do, will make me feel all right.”

“You know I feel all right.”