LAU 2– Sophomore Madeline Schmidt (SFS ’17) was reportedly seen Monday night on the second floor of Lauinger Library cramming for Tuesday’s midterm elections.
Schmidt said she was “gonna get around real soon” to researching Tom Cotton’s monetary policy after “a quick Facebook sesh” and that she was trying to begin understanding the implications of the Hobby Lobby case for this year’s election as soon as she finished viewing at least two more cat gifs.
Schmidt said that she hopes that she will get her results back by tonight on the midterm elections.
Throughout the night Schmidt texted her friends, sent 7 snapchats, and even opened her Introduction to Microeconomics textbook while her computer sat idly on the homepage of Ballotpedia.org.
Schmidt’s two consecutive clicks on links for the Arkansas senate race before glancing down at her phone again and posting to Yik Yak “Can anyone else not study for midterm elections???” represented her longest uninterrupted period of study. (Note: Schmidt did receive 17 upyaks for her post.)
Schimdt’s friends seemed unperturbed at her persistent procrastination.
“Yeah she does this all the time but she usually ends up alright” said one friend. “I mean she totally wings it on all of her other midterms.”
Upon exiting the poll, Schmidt seemed downtrodden with her performance. “I mean they were asking me to choose like District Attorney and Land Commissioner, I don’t think anyone prepared for those.”
At press time Schmidt was seen reassuring herself that she would be ready for the final in 2016.