To stay healthy, or to study?

     I have a lot of midterm exams to take in this week. Due to several reasons, like not getting familiar with the life in college, not managing my time well, and plenty of activities taking up most of my time, I did not spend a lot of time on academics. Therefore, I have to burn the midnight oil to study. However, last night I studied until 4 o’clock, and the outcome was that though I fluently took the exam, I caught a cold and my vitality was very weak yesterday. Then the doubt come into my mind: what really matters? The score? The assignment? Or my health? Still, I can not figure out the best answer for me……

Cindy's awkward experience

     Cindy, one of my junior high school classmates, has a rough and low voice, and because of the distinctive characteristic of her voice, she once had an amusing and a little bit awkward story. In the summer vacation when we promoted to be freshmen in the senior high, it was common for the whole freshmen to receive numerous calls from a various kind of cram schools to inquire if we would like to audit the courses. And Cindy was utterly fed with the annoying calls. One time, she received a call that was apparently from certain cram school. Therefore, when the person who was speaking in the phone asked if Cindy was home, Cindy just directly answered “NO” to the person and would like to hang up the phone as soon as possible, however, as she was about to hang up the phone, the person said “And then…… Are you Cindy’s daughter?” ……Yes! The person mistook Cindy’s voice as a man’s voice! Cindy angrily said to that person, ”Actually, I was Cindy herself!” and quickly hang off the phone!