Do you have dark circles under your eyes? Do you feel emotionally and physically tired? Congratulations, you survived finals week! Finals week is a wonderful time of the year where you just want to go home, but you have these little tiny things called responsibilities creeping behind you (aka exams and papers). If you are anything like me, you started all your projects and papers in the last two weeks of classes. This indeed is a very, very bad idea that will cause you lots of unnecessary stress in your life.

But wait, this is only the beginning. From the stress with papers and projects, it will have a snowball effect on your entire life.

Here're 11 signs that you definitely needed this winter break:

1. The dining hall food makes you sick just looking at it.

I mean the dining hall isn't going to serve you classy meals or what not. But at the end of the semester, you just start staring at it and questioning life. You start grabbing more ice cream bars, fewer salads. That healthy lifestyle you promised yourself during syllabus week has totally disappeared.

2. The littlest things make you have a mental breakdown.

Everything starts catching up to you. That paper you have been putting off for months is due tomorrow, you cry. You can't find a table at the library that's near an outlet for your laptop, you sob. You drop your pen on the ground, you scream internally.

3. When looking at a textbook for more than five minutes burns your eyes.

At the end of the semester, there's really no point in reading the entire textbook you've been putting off. What is not done, is not done. All you have to do is pray for a miracle.

4. When everyone starts annoying you.

You just want to sucker punch that girl in the library complaining about her A-, meanwhile, you're struggling to try to maintain a C+ in a class. Please, for the sake of everyone -- stop talking.

5. When alcohol can't even numb the pain.

You got peer-pressured to go out on the last weekend before finals.

At 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, you're still laying in bed while your notebooks and textbooks stare at you from across the room. You should've stayed in and studied, but you didn't. That's when you know you messed up.

6. Typing papers is making you slowly go insane.

The words "this paper should be at least 2000 words" gives you a stroke. Your heart is racing as you are typing everything you know about the topic. You just keep staring at the word count on the bottom left of the screen praying for it to miraculously increase.

7. When seeing your crush doesn't even make the day better.

You used to get excited seeing your crush at the dining hall or walking to class. You used to get butterflies. You used to be happy, but now the stress has overpowered you and you just walk by them in a hurry because you have bigger priorities at the moment. Don't worry I still have a crush on you. You'll be seeing me a lot during syllabus week next semester, staring at you.

8. When people try to include you in their own drama.

"I don't think I'm going to pass one of my classes." or "I'm not going to get this project done in time."

I would've cared and comforted you a couple weeks ago, but right now I have my own grades to raise. Tell me after I'm done ferociously typing away on my laptop.

9. When you start calling your parents more often.

You just start calling them out of the blue. One thing leads to another and you are sobbing on the phone to them. You know you are "technically" an adult now, but your parent's voices are refreshing and it makes you want to head home even more.

10. Looking in the mirror gets harder and harder every day.

You just feel like a mess. You've been wearing the same sweatpants/sweatshirt combo for the past couple of days because you've run out of clean clothes and don't want to do laundry any time soon. You are in no mood to fix your hair, so baseball cap it is.

11. The same routine starts to wear you down.

Wake up. Go to class. Get food. Take a nap. Stare at books. Take a nap. Stare at homework. Take a nap. The continuous routine gets dreadful, and you want something exciting to happen that will spice up your life, so you and your friends take a spontaneous drive to Walmart.

College is super fun during the first couple months, then reality kicks in that you're in college for an education too. By the end of the break, you'll be excited to go back and see your friends. The last two weeks are a buzz kill, but you'll get your insanity back and under control in no time.

I guess I'm just more of a syllabus week kind of person.