Hide under your covers! Don't look at your syllabus! You already know what time it is, it's midterm time. Right when you're starting to understand most of your classes, professors pull the ultimate switch and take away the little bit of confidence you were barely grasping onto. Even though we know it's coming, midterms still seems to catch us off guard and hit us harder than we'd ever expected.
Here are 10 signs that this dreaded week is coming your way.
1. Your reaction when the professor says there's no study guide.
Or when they say the exam will be all short answer or fill in the blank. Yep, that means no multiple choice. Either way, the minute you realize this midterm will be harder than you had expected can be a very dark and depressing time.
2. Your Netflix account keeps buffering.
Either God has decided to play a mean joke, or you're simply trying to avoid the tragedy that is midterm week. You're retreat and Netflix plan was put into overdrive and now you're account can't keep up with your procrastination skills. On the bright side, you're definitely going to ace the buzz feed quiz on season 4 of The Office that you're probably taking instead of studying.
3. The Starbucks barista doesn't have to ask your name anymore.
You're in and out of there so many times now that they already know you're name. To save time, they probably write your name on multiple cups and then just fill them up whenever you walk by. If there's one thing you know, it's that your Starbucks barista's always got your back. Even if these midterms don't.
4. The library isn't so quiet anymore.
In those rare moments when you're actually feeling productive, you can't even find a seat in the library because apparently the whole study body was feeling the same way. If you think your midterm week is hell on earth, imagine how your school librarian feels. In reality, no one is safe from the disaster of midterm week.
5. You haven't slept in your bed in days.
You're so tired from pretending to study that the ground quickly becomes an adequate mattress for the rest of the week. In desperate times like these, any amount of sleep is considered a treasure. Every second you take walking to your room and climbing into bed is a second of sleep you just lost. This isn't a game. Midterms are serious. So nap on the floor like an adult and get on with it.
6. The delivery guy has become your best friend.
You don't have time to make actual food! But you've also completely forgotten how to actually talk on the phone; but that's okay because you know that pizza won't judge you! Pizza will always have your back. So count out your quarters and give that delivery guy the tip he deserves! After all, he is basically the one thing that's keeping you going at this point.
7. Your faith life has miraculously gotten stronger.
Because if you can't rely on your own intelligence, you gotta rely on something. Maybe if you really pray hard enough, the whole test will be over the one chapter you actually understood. You never know, God does works in mysterious ways.
8. On the other hand, your physical appearance has gone down the drain.
The only thing to plummet faster than your GPA is your physical appearance. Hygiene isn't a thing anymore and it's considered a success if you actually remember to put on deodorant. When you do manage to take a shower, you're mind is so fried that you accidentally wash your hair twice. So you eventually stop trying and realize that being attractive was never really that important to you anyways.
9. You avoid every phone call because you know it can only bring bad news.
Whether it's a classmate calling to step up a study session or your parents wanting to discuss your grades, it's safer to just not answer. Whoever said avoiding your problems wasn't the answer probably never went through midterm week. So put that thing on do not disturb and trust no one.
10. And finally, you never take a weekend for granted again.
You don't even think about going out and partying. This weekend is solely for sleeping in, eating actual food, and forgetting all about the exams you probably just failed. Midterms are finally over and in your mind, they no longer exist. Or at least not until next semester, when you get to start the whole process over again.
