College is a lot to handle. It's full of tests, papers, and just all around stress. And yet, it also can be the best time of your life. With all its highs and lows, college can best be described through the escapades of Lorelai and Rory Gilmore from the infamous "Gilmore Girls."

1. Coffee every morning and periodically throughout the day is perfectly acceptable.

Because without coffee, how would we even survive?

2. The beginning of every week leaves us complaining about Mondays.

Mondays are just a plight to every college student.

3. When someone schedules 8:15's every single morning:

Especially if they schedule them of their own free will... those people are asking for trouble.

4. By mid-week, everyone is done with the whole "morning" thing.

The life has officially been drained out of everyone by this point.

5. Calling your friend up when you're stressed out of your mind:

Everyone needs that friend back home or at another school they can call up for a motivational speech.

6. You find excuses to eat to deal with the stress.

Because sometimes Dunkin' Donuts just seems to solve all of your problems.

7. Looking ahead at your finals schedule and trying to come to grips with such injustices:

It's like they just tried to see how awful of a series of 3-4 days a person can withstand.

8. Watching your priorities quickly shift during finals week:

At this point, garnering the motivation to get up for finals is all one can manage. Everything else quickly grows to be of less and less importance.

9. Trying not to freak out about what you're doing with your life after the tests, papers, and stress:

Everything seems to be a great big question mark.

10. Fitting the gym into a busy college schedule is... difficult.

I try to work out, I really do.

11. Trying to rationalize doing nothing on Saturdays:

12. Being reunited with your mom after TOO MANY long months:

It's just too long to go without mom's hugs, meals, and long chats.

13. Truly realizing and appreciating how much our moms mean to us throughout all the scariness and stresses of college:

Thanks, Mom. I don't think many of us would have made it this far without you.