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# Priorities
- URL: https://blog.novaugust.net/priorities/
- Published: 2012-12-18T14:42:51.000Z
- Updated: 2012-12-18T15:11:18.000Z
- Author: Matt Enlow
- Tags: Adventures, @ken_hilton307, post, Boulder Canyon, Climbing, conversation, Smarts, #Import 2026-06-21 14:43

[![Ken in Boulder Canyon](http://www.novaugust.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/20121212_122813-450x600.jpg)](http://www.novaugust.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/20121212%5F122813.jpg?ref=blog.novaugust.net)

Finals week came and went. Since I dropped half of my class-load back in October it was hardly stressful times for me. [Ken](https://blog.novaugust.net/sick-brah-the-ineloquence-of-talking-about-the-outdoors-from-semi-rad-com/ "Sick, Brah: The Ineloquence Of Talking About The Outdoors (from semi-rad.com)") and I talked about taking a trip at the end of the week and climbing for a few days to celebrate the end of school, but one of my two finals lay on a Thursday. Unperturbed, I sent an email to the class's instructor asking if I couldn't take it a few days early.

From: Matt Enlow | To: Professor X

> Professor X, 
> 
> Would it be possible for me to take the final exam early on Monday, or, failing that, Tuesday?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Matt Enlow

From: Professor X | To: Matt Enlow

> An alternative final exam is only allowed for an extreme situation. Can you provide me a reason for your request?
> 
> Professor X

From: Matt Enlow | To: Professor X

> Rock climbing is certainly extreme. I'm just not sure if it's quite the sort of extreme you're looking for.

From: Professor X | To: Matt Enlow

> See you Thursday.

So it was that Ken and I climbed in Boulder Canyon on Wednesday, spent time eating and drinking with his cousaunt (sic) in Boulder proper afterwards, and I studied not one bit for my final exam at ten the next day 

Priorities, baby.

[![Me in boulder canyon](http://www.novaugust.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/20121212_141826-700x525.jpg)](http://www.novaugust.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/20121212%5F141826.jpg?ref=blog.novaugust.net)

*(Oh, and count 'em -- that's two days of T-shirt climbing in December)*