It's a terrible situation. Most of us can practice moderation, posting lightly or not at all, or at worst, pacing ourselves to avoid burnout. But for some students, it's a nightmare of weekend excess, where the afflicted egg each other on to greater and greater doses until they collapse in exhaustion, red-eyed and addle-brained, so saturated in a blogoholic stupor that they can't see that they're destroying themselves.
Help Jen McCreight. We may need to stage an intervention here.
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