It's the time to be thankful for what we have, and sit back and recollect on the good times and good things in our lives.

Well...I can’t.

Granted, I’m thankful for my family, and food on my table, the friends I have, etc. But, with finals coming up, I don’t have the time to sit down and be thankful.

Our professors have given us countless assignments due by the end of the year, we have finals to worry about, last minute exams and quizzes, as well as regular homework and lectures.

The thanksgiving break isn’t actually a break at all. It is a hiatus from classes to catch up on all the work that we still have left to do for those classes. So instead of being thankful, we are still hoping for sleep and a break but we can't because the end of the year is vastly approaching.

Why do they do this to us? Why do they insist on giving us so much work, like we don't have 3-5 other classes to worry about with professors that think their class is the only one out there. We are college students -- we don't have all the time in the world. We work, we study, we need sleep; our lives can’t just insist on doing homework. Maybe we just have to suck it up. But, honestly, I am on the brink of quitting school (not really). I come home every day exhausted, and done. Four years is a long time to live completely stressed out. not to mention if you go to graduate school.

Every time someone asks me how school is, I have to redirect the question. I can’t stand school. I am overwhelmed with schoolwork, with keeping my scholarship, trying to figure out what I want to do with my life. I literally sit in the library and watch Netflix because i have no idea where to even start with the amounts of schoolwork that i do have. Thanksgiving break is supposed to be exactly how it sounds--a thanksgiving break. A break to be thankful for what we have, eat so much food that we can’t leave the couch, therefore we catch up on sleep, etc. But instead, we spend Wednesday doing homework, Thursday eating with our family, doing homework before Black Friday shopping, shopping all night, and then power napping until we wake up to do more homework, then Saturday and Sunday are spent finishing up last minute homework assignments.

Basically, the homework/schoolwork train doesn’t end until December 9^th. So while I am thankful for what I have, I can’t focus on the good while I’m bombarded with assignments. So after December, I will be extremely thankful. I will be thankful for what I have, my family, my true friends, that the semester is over, and that I finally have a break.