It’s that time of year again, the point in the semester when you suddenly regret all those mornings you opted for 15 more minutes of sleep instead of heading to that 8 am. For most of us finals week consists of existing on caffeine and pizza or Jimmy Johns, mostly due to their late night delivery hours. If you don’t have at least one mental breakdown a day you probably aren’t trying hard enough, and if you don’t question whether dropping out and being stripper is a better life choice you probably are still in denial.
Yes, you would think that by now we would have learned better than to procrastinate and attempt to learn a semester’s worth of information in a few days, but we haven’t. And yet we still manage to pass our exams, only to return in the spring to do it all over again. However many would agree that the stress of finals week is worth everything else the rest of semester has to offer. With this being said there are few things that are only acceptable during finals week, any other time and you will garner yourself many strange looks and judgment, but finals week… anything goes.
1. Wearing onesies/snuggies/pajamas in public. At Starbucks, the library, and in classes you will see them everywhere.
2. Drinking coffee and ordering pizza at 3 am. When pulling an all-nighter there is no time for cooking.
3. Having a mental breakdown in public places. During finals week it’s understandable, most polite people pretend not to notice.
4. Sleeping anywhere and everywhere. So maybe you only got 2 hours of sleep last night and now you have an hour and a half in between exams… Suddenly the bus seat seems very comfortable.
5. Eating constantly. I don’t know why but I focus better when I eat… So I’ll just keep telling myself it helps me study.
6. Students who look like they could be guest starring on The Walking Dead, yeah sorry, no concealer is going to cover up these under-eye circles.
7. People getting “turnt up” at inappropriate times… No lie, my freshman year a group of guys were getting drunk of margaritas at the on campus Chili’s at like 11 am. The minute are you done with exams, there is only one thing on your mind, and that is to celebrate.
8. Talking to yourself. Whether you are quizzing yourself on the types of skin cells, or trying to give yourself a last minute pep talk, or maybe trying to convince yourself that being a stripper would actually be terrible. We all do it, and thankfully during finals week most won’t think twice about it.
9. Crying. Ugly crying that is, and a lot of it. There will always be that one person in you class who just loses it during the exam and starts crying right then and there. Try your best not to be that person.
10. A surprising amount of people will actually be out, either because; 1. They actually studied all throughout the year and know they are ok for finals 2. Are actually ok with being strippers or 3. They are avoiding reality.
