It’s the final stretch. With only a few weeks left until school’s out for the semester and Thanksgiving break in a week, things are starting to get pretty hectic. Schoolwork is beginning to pick up at an incredibly fast pace as meetings and holiday parties pop up every day. Everyone is stressed and wanting the semester to be over with as soon as possible because they desperately are in need of a break. Spending hours at one of the libraries or the MLC is a daily task while you’re still trying to balance a crazy social life. Everything is coming at you at once, and emotions are running high with each project, paper and test that is scheduled to be due in just a few short weeks.
But it’s okay. Know you are not alone in this last push for the holiday breaks. College students, we are in this together. Even in the hectic life that is brought to us this time of the year, there are good times to be had. Finals can be one of the most fun times in your college career believe it or not.
With everyone studying together in study rooms or desperately trying to keep quiet on the fourth floor of the MLC, know you are surrounded by friends. These are friends who are all slowly going crazy after hours upon hours of studying. In these crazy times, is when I personally have had some of the best memories from college. The “you’re all in this together” attitude is truly a real fact when suffering through studying for finals with your friends.
My freshman year in the MLC my friends and I kept the same study room for at least three days straight. We created a system where we had at least two people in there at all times. Study rooms are hard to come by when finals week rolls around, so we thought we would just never leave our “room of productivity.” Then, last year, one of my roommates and I had stayed at the MLC from 4 in the afternoon until 2 a.m. the next morning. When we began to walk out, we had gone a little crazy and took off our shoes and slid back and forth on the stairs of the MLC. Then, we decided to see how far we could slide down the hallway, and people would watch us fly across the floor going from side to side.
Even though studying is awful, the friends that surround you while you study can help you make memories of a lifetime while suffering through finals week. Don’t stress too much because you’re almost done! This is the final push but make sure to have fun in even the hectic mess of finals.
