Finals Time Throws Our Moral Compass Out Of Whack

Big ups to everyone else who's traded daylight for fluorescent library light this weekend.  Somewhere among those throngs is your UTB editor!  As we we sit here pitying ourselves, it occurred to us that we have transgressed some sort of finals line of demarcation and found ourselves behaving in ways that, in our day-to-day lives, we would consider heinous.  Here's a little cheat sheet for recalibrating your personal code of ethics:

Saving a seat by leaving all your crap there unattended for hours at a time Normal level of offensiveness: High Finals level of offensiveness: Low. Completely permissible.

Not turning off your cell phone in the library Normal level of offensiveness: Low Finals level of offensiveness: Medium (But completely acceptable when we're the ones with the ringing phone)

Wanting to hug the person who brought in a surge protector Normal level of offensiveness: High. Never hug a rando. Finals level of offensiveness: Nonexistent. You would be nothing without a place to plug in your laptop!