This semester has been hard, just like all of the other ones. After taking four to five rigorous classes, along with a ton of extra-curricular activities, your job and social life, you are completely exhausted of this semester's antics. It's time to take the summer to reflect on the past year of hard work and rejuvenate. You can barely handle that "extra push" that everyone seems to have except you. You've managed to complete most of the semester, but it's time to put in that final home stretch so that you can finish the semester strong. Here are 12 ways you know the semester is really, actually and definitely over.
1. You Have Nothing Left In Your Soul
That's right. You've actually done that thing that everyone says: You've given your soul to the devil, with the devil being school work. You've worked hard, put in many days of work and officially have nothing left to give. Even if you wanted to find another care in this world to give, no matter how many times you search for it in your body, you can't find it because there just aren't any. You really gave it the old college try, and now there is no more left to try with.
2. You Did All Of Your Work
You did it. You really did it. You took your last exam; you finished up your last paper; you completed your last project, and you even showed your last presentation. There's literally nothing left for you to do in terms of school work. You know you should feel happy and relieved, but instead, you are way too tired to even care. You're actually more nervous that you're just missing something that you were supposed to do. After triple checking all of your syllabuses, you realized that you're done doing school work until next year. Thank god.
3. Your Room Is In Shambles
You're getting ready to leave your school room for the summer, so it makes sense that you'd be packing and getting ready to move out. Unfortunately, you didn't realize that you haven't cleaned your room in weeks because you've been so busy doing work. By the time you want to start organizing and packing, you can't see the carpeting on the floor of your room because your books and dirty laundry are everywhere. Sadly, you really do need to clean up the mess because you are supposed to move out in two days.
4. Campus Is Half Empty
Where did everybody go? I don't know what classes people are taking, but you should really start taking those classes so that you can leave when everyone else did. It's actually unreal how empty campus is; half of the people I see everyday are just gone. Your friends left too! How did people not have a ton of work to do like I did? I don't understand; everyone just completely disappeared.
5. Everything Is Closed
How is the cafe closed right now? It's 3 p.m. on a Wednesday! Where am I supposed to get coffee on campus for the rest of the week? If students are still on campus, then the cafeteria should absolutely not be closing at 5 p.m. When am I supposed to eat dinner?
6. You Have No Idea What Day It Is
If I took my psych final on Saturday night and turned in my economics paper on Monday morning, then it must be Wednesday! No, that's not right. My anthro exam is on Wednesday. Honestly, at the end of the semester, you have no idea what day it is; you just know that you have to wake up, do more school work and find time to eat in between your exams. You're not concerned with what day of the week it is because by the end of the semester everyday is do homework day. The actual days of the week become extremely irrelevant
7. You Haven't Seen The Sun In Days
That big shiny, bright thing in the sky, that's the sun. It's definitely been a while since you saw or felt any of that. The library can be a really dark place, and since you begin your day promptly at 8 a.m. at a table in the library and typically don't leave until 10 p.m. after the sun has set, you really haven't seen the sun in quite some time. When you actually finally do see the sun at the end of the semester, the brightness and the heat that radiates from it is so unfamiliar that you mistake it for the bright lights of the classroom you took your last exam in and the nervous sweat you felt when you realized you didn't study hard enough. Don't worry; that's just the nice summer weather moving in.
8. You Have No Food
You know you haven't been grocery shopping in over two weeks. You've been taking random things from the pantry and the fridge whether it's yours or not. This can be a good thing; at least there's nothing to clean out before you leave school!
9. What Have You Eaten Recently
You've eaten complete garbage for the past week since you haven't had time to get real food or make it. Your new diet consists of pretzles, goldfish, granola bars, BBQ chips and Fritos. You're not proud of this.
10. You Have No Clean Clothes
All of your clothes are dirty, so everyday, you turn to the cleanest pair of leggings that are currently living on the floor of your room with some kind of a t-shirt without a care in the world. Once your finals are over and you actually want to look like a person again, it's impossible due to your lack of clean clothing and your lack of motivation to do laundry.
11. You're Exhausted
The head nods in the library are so real that you're starting to get whiplash from falling asleep and waking up so frequently in the same spot. At this point, you can barely keep your exhaustion together anymore, and you know you need a really good full night of sleep before you can actually get anything productive done anymore.
12. You're Ready for Summer
You're finally ready for three months of warm weather, summer drinks, beaching, swimming and doing all of those other amazing things that come with summer time. You're finally done with all of your work and responsibilities for the school year, so it's time to see what the summer brings for you, even if that means an even harder summer internship.
