pls'Tis the season! Happy holidays! Eggnog! Menorahs! Presents! Celebration! Finals!
Yeah, I said it. It's Finals Week for all those college kids out there. Every semester, it's the same old story. You think you're going to finish strong, study the week away, sleep well, and get a solid grade.
And while that's possible for the rare anomaly of superhumans, for the rest of us, it is not.
Five days might not seem like a long time, but when you start cramming for a subject you have been passionately trying to avoid for 16 weeks, it feels like an eternity.
Let's take a moment and break down the various stages of Finals Week.
1. Heading to the library with your best friend to start studying
2. Ordering that first coffee
3. Opening up the textbook and not understanding the first review question
4. When someone explains the problem to you, but you still don't get it
5. Trying to remain positive
6. Realizing you should have started studying long, long ago
7. Grabbing a second coffee
8. Getting a question right
9. When you finally understand the material
10. But then starting the next subject
11. When someone interrupts you
12. When your parents call to check up on you
13. Walking into the library towards the end of the week
14. Ordering another coffee
15. Staying up until 3 a.m. to finish your paper
16. Then, getting up at 8 a.m. the next morning to get to your final
17. And grabbing another coffee on the way
18. That look to the classmate sitting next to you right before the test is passed out
19. The professor who gave you a cumulative exam
20. And them telling you there won't be any multiple choice
21. The professor who only tests you on the last few chapters
22. "You can bring a cheat-sheet."
23. Feeling confident until you finally get the test in front of you
24. Walking out of the final like
25. Until you remember you have one more to go tomorrow
26. And grabbing another coffee before you head back to the library
27. Waiting in your car until the last possible moment before your last test
28. However, you walk out of it like
29. Seeing your friends afterward like
30. Until one of them asks about a question on the back page......but you didn't know there was a back page
31. But it's okay, because
Happy Finals Week to the desperate, stressed, and annoyed young adults!
