The fourth installment in a year-long series chronicling two brothers’ freshman years.

While many freshmen are eagerly awaiting the end of classes and homework for the semester, the Brodsky-Porges twins are counting down to the day they head back home to Seattle, Wash. for the holidays.

“It’s been so long, everyone I know around here has at least been home once,” David Brodsky-Porges said. “I’ve only got two more weeks, I’m just trying to get through finals and everything.”

Both brothers are starting to feel the tension of finals, with David’s several projects due by Friday and Jason’s two final exams coming up.

Although neither said they are extremely worried, the thought of work ahead has crossed their minds.

“I want to not be worried, but I know I’ll get worried. I just have to do better than my brother, that’s all that counts,” Jason said with a laugh. “But I’m happy I’m going someplace, happy to have a semester under my belt.”

Looking back on the second half of their semesters, both freshmen said they’ve had plenty of worthwhile experiences, one of the most memorable being the Boston Red Sox taking home the World Series championship.

“I still can’t believe it,” David said of the Sox’s four-game sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals. “I haven’t been a diehard Red Sox fan, so I don’t really know as much as other people do, but there are a couple of things I know about baseball, and one of them was that the Red Sox weren’t supposed to win.”

Jason joked and said he took the win as a signal he and his brother were meant to be in Boston.

“I think it’s a sign we’re in the right place here,” he said. “Maybe we’ll have a 100-year streak now against the Yankees.”

Thanksgiving came and went quickly for the twins, who took a road trip down to New Jersey to visit family for the holiday. While it was nice being with family, Jason said, the drive wasn’t so great.

“It took 10 hours to get there, three hours just to get out of Boston,” he said.

The twins, their sister and father left for New Jersey at 3 p.m. Wednesday during the height of traffic.

Back in Boston, the brothers are looking forward to Thursday, when they will celebrate their 19th birthday together.

“It’s nice because our birthday is on a reading day,” David said. “I don’t want to have to go to classes on my birthday.”

David said they would probably celebrate together, although no final plans have been set.

“I’m sure we’ll meet up,” he said. “I want to treat myself, we should go out to dinner or something.”

After the birthdays, finals and long-awaited break, the twins will return to classes, which David said he isn’t looking forward to entirely.

“They signed me up for my two communications classes, and I have 8 a.m. classes every day of the week,” he said. “I went to them and I was like ‘Are you kidding?'”

Jason said his schedule, full of math and science requirements, looks difficult, but the times are better than his brothers’ – he has no classes that start before 9 a.m.

Neither of the brothers have completely filled their schedules, and David said he’d like to take a few music courses.

“It’d be nice to take a performing arts class. I play saxophone and I was thinking I was going to join the jazz band, but I never ended up doing that,” he said. “I brought my saxophone with me, I haven’t played in awhile and now it’s all I want to do. Now that I don’t have to do it, I want to play music all the time.”