Only one more week and we are free to bask in the sunshine and/or watch all the Netflix our hearts desire. For seven days some of us are pardoned from this hellish snow globe we have been trapped in since the first snowflake hit the ground, while others stay home and just enjoy being liberated from all of their academic duties. Spring break 2K15 is in our grasp, we can almost taste the salty ocean air and feel our hair frizz from the humidity, but first we have some business to take care of: midterms. 

For many students, college spring break is the vacation they remember, well try to at least, for the rest of their lives. But, before they journey to their palm treed, sea breezed and sun kissed getaways with their best friends, or for those that don't venture out of the boundaries of Michigan and just relax and catch up on sleep, Professors feel the need to torture us with twice as many exams, projects and papers that will leave us physically brain dead by Friday. 

But kick back, relax and take a study break from those ISS notes and experience ten times dogs portrayed exactly what we are going through during this week of non-stop studying. We may not be as cute and cuddly as our furry friends, but they definitely can describe our thought process as we endure midterm week. Enjoy! 

Okay it's time. Club lib is calling your name and you know you have to study, but it still feels like these exams totally snuck up on you. Your professor announced the date for your IAH midterm weeks before, but now for some reason you are feeling completely taken off-guard. He just said it was this Tuesday? 

So, there is nothing else for you to do but to start drinking chugging cup after cup of coffee to get your study grind on. Unfortunately, you forgot your limit since last exam week and can't handle the caffeine overdose. Instead of creating a pile of notecards,  you are so hyper you simply cannot concentrate on anything. Not even Buzzfeed can keep you focused. You literally feel like you can bounce off the walls. 

The coffee buzz has worn off, it is about the 11th hour of sitting in the same spot staring at a blurry computer screen and you're stomach is growling louder then this dog attacking the cabbage. You must eat and you must eat asap before you go all King Kong on the third floor of the library. 

It is day two of studying. It's almost like you're not even a real human anymore. You're trying, you really are. But, you're so mentally exhausted that you feel as though even the simplest of tasks takes all the effort out of you. 

One exam down, one more to go, three more pages to write, a project to turn in and you are only half way through the week. At least you and your study buddy both feel like non-functioning human beings together. As Troy Bolton always says, "we are all in this together."

You also haven't seen bae in quite some time. And if you have, you haven't been giving him or her any attention. The only thing you can focus on is completing one more set of notecards before your hand is too cramped. Sorry boo thang, you're just going to have to wait two more days. 

The squad has now seen each other in one another's lowest of the lows. From the lack of sleep, coffee overdose, intensive studying and information overload, we are all cranky, tired, hungry and about to snap any minute. But, no man is left behind and we will stick together until the very last friend of the group has turned in his or her exam. 

YOU 4.0'd YOUR CEM 141 EXAM! You can't tell if not sleeping in three days has made you so slap happy and you have now formed crazy eyes, or you are just so genuinely happy that all that hard work paid off. 

It's the last day of exams, you have read, discussed, analyzed, reported and studied so much that when you turn your last midterm in, you feel nothing short of a boss. With pride in your heart or that deep, nauseating feeling that you failed, you walk out of the lecture hall looking too cool for school. 

Congrats on completing exam week and killing all those midterms! Now you can say you survived hell on earth: college edition. Get ready to party it up, sleep for the next week or do whatever it is to relax. You deserve it.