The AP season freak-out begins at different times for different students, but generally, it starts in about mid-April when you teachers stop giving you content and start reviewing. You start to think about the multitude of FRQs and MCQs and LEQs and gosh, there are too many Qs.

The following is a loose timeline of any AP student's life as exam season looms and finally arrives.

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1. "You have lovely penmanship, May."

This is you complementing a friend of yours who's already started studying. "Wow! Look at you, being all proactive!" you say. Then you realize that you should probably start studying as well.

2. "Where's my holy water?"

This is you trying to be a good student. You keep putting off studying because of homework and oftentimes when you actually get the opportunity to study you just end up procrastinating on the internet. You need the holy water to protect you from the demons of distraction.

3. "I hate this." "This is sort of beautiful."

While you're in your AP class, there's two types of people: those that get it, and those that don't. There's no in-between. Come time for the exam, when you really start freaking out about how much you actually know, you're either feeling pretty confident or trying to learn a class of content in a week (or a few days, if you're really pushing it) .

4. "I've always gotta think about stuff, you know?"

This is is your reaction when people tell you, "Stop freaking out, you'll be fine! It's all in your head!" You're an AP student. Your job is to be in your head and overthink things. Freaking out is part of the process.

5. "Are ghosts real?" — every Supernatural episode

This is you when you hear a sound at 2 a.m. while you're studying (or procrastinating) in the days before the exam.

6. [while lying on a pentagram] "Here we go! Rock and roll, buckaroo!"

At some point, you reach a sort of grim acceptance. Acceptance manifests in many ways for different people. Some test takers say something along the lines of, "Meh. I get what I get, whatever." Others go kind of completely insane, and do things like laugh hysterically at walls or lay on pentagrams.

7. *screams*

That light turning on? That's you at the start of the test, and you're screaming right along with Ryan. In your head, of course.

8. "It's morning." "We're still here. I wasn't stabbed to death with a butter knife!"

In the end, you do make it out of that testing room alive. In theory, at least. You may have left the tattered remains of your sanity back there with your test booklets. The rest of you should be okay, though.

9. "Hey there, demons. It's me, ya boy."

And of course, the best part of AP exam season is the post-exam memes and jokes that flood Twitter and other social media. Seeking them is kind of looking for demons, in a way because you run the risk of running into one that causes a horrible flashback to the exam. Your loss if you're not the same afterwards...