After a one-week trial run of sunny beach days, long nights full of junk food and Netflix in bed, going back to school with a hankering for knowledge falls a bit flat. So to prevent the ghost of a 4.0 haunting us all summer, we need to find a way to pick up some slack now and ride it out until we’re finally on a beach again. And to help you with that, here are four tips to end your semester strong and start your summer on a high note:
1. Write everything down
In these next two months, you’ll be drowning in deadlines, finals preparations, and a hell lot of coffee. So, write everything down. Write a To-do list every morning to make sure you’re on top of your things. Keep track of your assignments with a calendar to make sure you get all of your assignments done on time. Write down yesterday’s notes, tomorrow’s notes, what you ate today, the name of your roommate’s dog (It’s Rufus). This way, you won’t forget anything. Ever.
2. A lot of coffee
Coffee will be your saving grace. The aroma itself will wake you up in the morning for those early 8 a.m. classes. Actually, just replace all your water with coffee. Wash your face with coffee. Bathe in coffee. Fill up around 90 mugs of coffee and fill every visible surface in your room with coffee mugs filled to the brim so you’ll always be on your toes. Water is a thing of the past.
3. Don't sit on your bed
Sitting on your bed will make you fall asleep while doing work. Since Valentine’s Day roses should be dead right about now, go steal some of the roses from the trash cans outside and collect all the thorns from it. Generously sprinkle them on your bed so now, you’ll be forced to sleep on the rug. You can’t sleep in if you can’t sleep!
4. Stay away from the sun
If you feel the sunlight on your skin, that means that summer is coming. You can’t succeed in school if summer is trying to brainwash you with images of pretty crystal blue waters and warm sandy b- stop it. Run. Close the blinds. Hide in the corner of your room with your laptop. Finish those assignments. Before it reaches you.
Honestly, you're already going to go crazy. You'll be that one kid asleep in the elevator at 3 p.m. Or the one snoring in her cereal at 3 a.m. No matter what, you'll be alive for the most part. But you'll pull through. Kinda. And that's all that matters.
