Every person has studied for something, whether it’s your permit test or an extremely important AP exam. You probably plan to study like 2 weeks before the exam day.

But every time you pull out your books, you can literally hear them asking you why you’re studying now when you have so much time. Of course you have to listen to them! I mean, it’s not like you’re going to remember anything anyways...You might as well catch up on some sleep or Netflix.

And then slowly, the night before the test creeps up on you...Here’s some stages that almost everyone will go through once in their lifetime on the day before a test.

Stage 1: “5 Seconds of Motivation”

This is like the 5 seconds when you’re writing all your homework down and you feel motivated. You tell yourself that you’re going to get all your studying done the second you get home.

Stage 2: “Yes, I sat around for a couple of hours. Doing what? Absolutely nothing. :)”

This is when you get back home and all you really want to do is watch tv, eat food, and most importantly, forget about all the studying you have to do for your test tomorrow.

Stage 3: “Motivation, where are you hiding now?”

Finally, after a couple hours you decide to drag yourself to your book bag and start studying. Time to start reading through all these page of notes now! “The electrons are….blah blah blah..” Nothing seems to make sense now...great. I mean I guess you could take a power nap now and maybe then it’ll start to make sense? Yeah...that sounds good.

Stage 4: “Motivation tends to spark at around 1:30 AM and everything looks COMPLICATED.”

It’s finally that time of the day. It’s 1:30 AM and suddenly you feel like studying and working to earn that A. This is something that can’t be explained by science...it’s just something that happens and no one knows how to control it. No matter how much you wish you had this kind of motivation at 5 PM, it always strikes at 1:30 AM. No other explanations needed.

Stage 5: “I hate everyone and I’m EXHAUSTED”

This is you the next morning. With barely 3 hours of sleep, your moody self comes into play now. You get mad at almost everything and you really don’t want to involve yourself in anything that involves talking to people.

Stage 6: “Worrying begins NOW.”

Now you're in the class before the test and this is when the worrying truly starts to begin. You’ve heard that some people thought it was hard and others thought it was a piece of cake. Now it’s almost time for you to go and take it and find out for yourself if it was hard or easy.

Stage 7: “Time to start that grind again.”

The test’s over and you now feel like a huge weight has been lifted off your shoulders. You can finally take a deep breath and peacefully catch up on some sleep.