Finals week is every college students' living nightmare. This hell week can make or break your past 15 weeks the sound of phrases like "the exam is cumulative" and "your final is 8 AM Saturday." Time to kick it in to overdrive and take a look at the five phases every college student undoubtedly goes through during finals week.
1. Procrastination.
T-10 days until finals week and an unwavering essence of dread is starting to set in. You can feel it in your bones. But like all well-seasoned college students, you still have time. Pushing off studying is at the top of your agenda, followed quickly behind by your last night out for the semester and an XL mad mush cheesy bread.
2. Panic.
Your first final is five short days away and the realization is slowly setting in: you're screwed. You start to question the amount of time you spent watching netflix or gaming the past few days and you can't help but start to wonder just how large the burning fire that is finals week is growing. You open up your books and syllabus only to recognize just how little of the concepts you actually know, confirming with classmates that this is the material for the exam and not a poor, premature April fools joke.
3. Fear.
Only a few minutes lie between you and your first final. You've made it to your first final and found your seat only to realize you can't stop shaking. It feels like your heart is pounding out of your chest. You joke around with your friends about how screwed you are for this exam or your possibly still trying to cram an entire semesters worth of information into your brain. After all, you never know what kind of surprise lies behind page one.
4. Sleep deprivation.
It's midway through finals week and you find yourself drinking at least a pot of coffee a day. You're surviving off caffeine and power naps usually in the increment 25 minutes to 4 hours. Your past 15 weeks of training to survive off minimal sleep is finally being put to the ultimate test.
5. Understanding.
Better luck next year you say as your GPA does a nose dive. You promise you'll never let this happen again and next year you'll start studying at least a few weeks in advance.
Soon you'll be at home, lying in bed with no care in the world. Three weeks of pure bliss, home cooking, and endless naps. First all you have to do is survive the five stages of finals-week takeover.
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