Finals? More like “give me death”. It’s that final week of school where it stresses you out to the max and you lose so much sleep that you have no idea how to function effectively. You drink so much caffeine and coffee in order to get just one more thing done. You sit and cry because you have no motivation left and a list a mile long of things that need to get done. Well, if anything, don’t do these things:

1. Procrastinate

There is absolutely… and I mean absolutely nothing worse than pushing everything off until the last minute. I can’t say that I have never procrastinated before because I definitely have. I have a lot actually. It happens. What can I say? During finals is definitely not the time to do it, though. Once you procrastinate on a list of a million things you have do, you will never get out of the habit of pushing things off. Then the stress kicks in and you’re basically screwed.

2. Not Get Sleep

Don’t pull all-nighters… please for the love of everything good in this world. Don’t do it. You need sleep in order to function and without it, you’ll be a zombie high on caffeine trying to take a test you studied all night for. Let me tell you, studying all night doesn’t let your brain actually soak in the information. You’ll blank first question. Almost every single time. Sleep… but not when you have things to do during the day. Sleep at night.

3. Stressfully Watch Netflix

You think you have just about everything done and turn on an episode of your current series that you’ve been binging on Netflix. Then you remember you have a lot more to do and what you have is very time consuming so you sit there and stress over your work while trying to enjoy the show. My suggestion: turn off the Netflix and get your work done. I know it’s hard and you just want to forget about everything you have to do, but you really don’t want to fail these. It’s finals after all.

4. Game It Up

For you gamers out there… Gaming doesn’t solve anything either. You spend hours at a time trying to beat the boss or get to the next level. You easily get sucked into the game and then it’s about four hours later and you have absolutely nothing done. Taking out stress on a game could be helpful, but promise you won’t get sucked in? I’ll give you an hour. Go at it.

5. Scroll Through Every Form of Social Media for Hours

Scroll. Scroll. Like. Share. Scroll. Scroll.

Yeah… don’t do that. Put down the phone. What did I say? Put it down. Noooo. Work. Study.

6. Cry

Who am I kidding? I’m not going to tell you not to cry. Cry if you need to. Let it all out. You need that good cry. It relieves so much stress.

7. Worry

Yes, don’t worry. You’ll do perfectly fine on all your finals. Moderate studying with sleep, healthy eating, and of course, a little free time in between. You’ll ace them! I believe in you! Good luck!