Dead Week: a time to re-teach yourself all the material that went in one ear and out the other over the course of an entire quarter.
With this treacherous week right around the corner, it is important to prepare for the amount of emotional disparities that are going to occur as the week progresses. If you're anything like me, you'll be binge watching your latest Netflix obsession while trying to find motivation to start studying.
Who better to understand the grueling process of pain and near-death experiences rather than the emotionally damaged doctors of Seattle Grace Hospital?
1. That moment when you first look at the study guide and realize you have no idea what over half the questions are asking.
2. Who needs sleep when you could be stressing out about whether or not you’ll have enough pencil lead for the entire test?
3. No one can convince you that you’re going to be fine. Might as well drop out now.
4. The realization that failure is inevitable.
5. That moment when you get the fifth try wrong on WebAssign and accept defeat.
6. Looking around the classroom and realizing that everyone else in your class is trying for the same major.
7. Homework and tests come and go. Food will always be there for you.
8. Realizing that it probably wasn’t the best idea to take chemistry, biology and math all in the same quarter.
9. That loopy feeling after a long period of studying where your words start to seem like they belong to a toddler. You might appear as if you have downed an entire fifth, but you are actually painstakingly sober.
10. Deciding to go out on Thursday even though you have two finals on Monday.
11. You’ve calculated the exact score necessary to get a 3.5 in the class, and you can’t help but have yet another mental breakdown.
12. You’ve kicked off your shoes…and all other unnecessary articles of clothing as you blast Britney Spears and debate re-enacting her 2007 breakdown.
13. The joy of finishing your last ALEKS topic minutes before it’s due.
14. Looking at the practice tests and realizing that you don’t know as much as you thought you did.
After a paralyzingly long week of non-stop studying, all-nighters and an abnormal amount of mental breakdowns, there is no better way to erase the trauma of finals than seven days of home-cooked meals and unlimited sleep. Just don’t spend too much time worrying about your GPA when grades come back over break...
"Ask most people what they want out of life and the answer is simple: to be happy." -Meredith Grey
Well...we're trying, Meredith, but the only thing we really want in life right now is a passing grade.
