Thanksgiving Break is that stage of Limbo before everything hits you. The stress, the assignments, the calculations of what you need to get on the final so that you get the grade you want. We all know what’s coming. But, to add to the procrastination you’re already accomplishing by being on this article, here’s everything mapped out by Harry Potter.
Knowing that Thanksgiving Break is the last time in the next several weeks that you can relax, so you let go of responsibility completely.
Coming back and realizing- Oh. We’re at the end of the semester. I’m supposed to have read this entire textbook.
Being slightly afraid of the frustration you’ve had bottled up all semester.
You’re sleep deprived and running off some sort of caffeinated energy, so you start to get a little… weird.
Cringing every time you go in public, because you don’t remember the last time you took a study break long enough to shower.
Trying to politely tell everyone around you that they’re being much too loud for you to study. For the tenth time.
The constant feeling that you’re going to implode from all the stress.
When people try to invite you to do things the week before finals.
Trying not to be emotionally attached to anything, for fear of a mental breakdown.
Bonding with everyone over the fact that you’re all equally emotionally unstable.
Again on the emotional instability, struggling to not let it seep into everything you do.
The one happy perk of finals week: everyone is encouraging. No one wants their peers to fail. We’re in this together.
The panic you feel walking into your final.
Getting your grades back and you DIDN’T completely fail.
So here is comes. You know it’s happening, and there’s no avoiding it. Now keep that procrastination going and click on another Odyssey article, because God forbid you actually prepare for finals week.
And best of luck.
