1. Planning it all out

Your first professor tells you it is getting to that time of the semester again where you have to pretty much get your life together because it is time for finals. At this point you have taken out your planner and wrote down every day and the exact times you are going to be in the library studying and color coded your notecards ahead of time.

2. Denial

Sitting down at your favorite spot in the library with your papers and books all set out to study and realizing that you actually know nothing that you have been lectured about the whole semester. You are not ready for these tests at all and don’t want to accept that it's already time for finals, it seemed like just yesterday was the first day of classes.

3. The “I can’t look at this anymore” stage

After trying to actually study your hardest for hours you realize you’re looking at the same math problem from 3:00 pm and it's now 11:54. You close your book and scream “I can’t look at this anymore” with some curse words scattered here and there.

4. The I don’t care anymore, I’m not going to pass anyway

After what just happened you just give up and leave the library. You know you are not going to pass no matter how hard you try. It is easier to just give up now.

5. Realizing that you actually need to care because you are failing half your classes

You go onto your blackboard account and actually look at your grades because you want to know what you’re going to end the semester with but then you realize you’re failing multiple classes and you actually HAVE to study your butt off.

6. Calculating the grade that you need on the final to pass the class with a “C”

You’ve calculated that you need at least at 74 percent on your final in calculus to pass the class with a 73.6!

7. Staying in the library with every book you own and your Keurig

You head back to the library the next day with every text book that you had to buy for class but never used, and even unplug your coffee maker because you have a feeling you are going to be there for a very long time. It’s best to take a blanket and some slip on shoes as well so you can make yourself comfortable. It’s going to be a long night.

8. Studying before class, after class, in the bathroom, in the shower

The librarian announces that the library does actually close so that means you have to leave. You pack up and decide to take your notecards with you everywhere. You sleep, eat and breathe neon colored note cards for the rest of the week until those finals.

9. Taking the test and knowing nothing on the first page

You’re pretty confident walking into class because you have secluded yourself from everyone and everything for the week to study. You take a seat and the professor goes over the usual things and then hands out the test. You get yours and flip it over, but then you realize you know nothing but your name on that first page. “This is the end”.

10. Walking out of there like you failed miserably but getting your grade back the following day and you actually got a B-

That’s it. The final is over and you know so is your life. You failed miserably and don’t even want to look at blackboard the next day when our grade is uploaded but you do anyway and there it is, a B-. Victory.

11. Repeating steps one through ten for the next final

Now that you know what you have to do, it is on to the next one! Good luck and finish strong.