Binge eat. Don't sleep. Caffeine. Repeat.

Thanksgiving break is now a thing of the past, and likely left you more exhausted than you originally felt. With that beautiful teaser of home cooked meals, sleeping in, and no class, being thrown back into a vicious cycle of homework and finals is quite the wake-up call.

Christmas is so close you can practically taste the candy canes, which makes the ludicrous amounts of studying on your to-do list all the worse. You're exhausted. You're entirely overwhelmed. You're the definition of messy.

As Rodney Atkins put it, "if you're going through hell, keep on going." In this case, hell is college and the devil is your professors. However, there is a light at the end of the tunnel, and I believe that we will all survive.

1. Thanksgiving break was merely a holiday teaser, and the only thing you gained from it is weight.

2. You realize how badly you procrastinated assignments over the break, and now have 3 papers, 7 projects, and 12 discussion boards to do by Thursday.

3. You decide you're going to ace every on of your finals this year, for sure.

4. And quickly realize you have essentially no motivation to do so.

5. Your professors apparently think that you are a super-human, and assign millions of papers/projects/etc. to ruin your life.

6. You've been writing a paper for so long that your brain has actually turned to mush.

7. You turn the paper in, even though you know a fifth grader could've done a better job.

8. Stress eating commences.

9. Your lab partner is MIA, forcing you to do all of the work yourself.

10. Showing up to office hours for the first time all semester to beg for mercy.

11. You realize you forgot to turn in one of your assignments.

12. You being the five stages of grief...

13. Denial.

14. Anger.

15. Bargaining.

16. Depression.

17. Acceptance.

18. You give into Netflix, and promise yourself you'll do better next year.