The most dreaded week of the year is finally here: the week before finals, aka dead week. With dead week comes lack of sleep, a lot of coffee and energy drinks, stress crying, procrastination, and finally, the major struggle to study everything you can before your finals.

This week is not just “dead” because (most) classes are cancelled so students can prepare for finals, but is “dead” because that’s how students feel at this point in the semester. Sleep is nonexistent, we are overloaded with caffeine and coffee, and the only thing that is getting us through this is that summer is in less than two weeks. So, as dead week approaches us, it can be easy to feel stressed and have multiple breakdowns a day as get closer and closer. Since this time can be filled with nothing but stress and mental/emotional breakdowns, I thought it might help to find some humor in a few thoughts that all of us have during dead week while we try not to fail all of our classes.

1. When you look at the study guide your professor put on Blackboard and realize that you're going to have to teach yourself entire chapters of material that your professor never went over but is including on the final:

2. When you start trying to read over that study guide but realize you're not even sure what class you're studying for:

3. When you look at everything you have to and think to yourself "How am I supposed to get everything done and study for every final before the end of the week?":

4. When you've been writing a paper all night and then look at your laptop and see that it's 4 a.m., you're out of coffee, have no food left, and now are out of reasons why you should keep writing your paper:

5. When you try to calculate what you need to get on your final to pass or get a certain grade for a class and have another mental breakdown:

6. When you look back at your syllabus and realize that your final is cumulative:

7. When you feel like you can't study anymore or write another word for your paper and decide that you need to take a little study break, but you end up watching half of a season of a new show on Netflix and hate yourself for it:

8. When your laptop dies halfway through the paper you're writing:

9. When you read the paper you wrote at 3 a.m. the next day and realize you made no sense at all:

10. When you finally get to sleep but realize you have to wake up and do the same thing tomorrow:

We're in this together, everyone