Every year dead week and finals week sneaks up on us. We always get to dead week and tell ourselves that we have plenty of time, even though we internally panic about our grades for a solid week. Then we actually get to finals week and we kill ourselves trying to study for finals that we could have been studying for the entire past week. We always say we aren’t going to wait that long to study again, but we always do. Nobody understands this better than our friends on "New Girl."
At some point on Sunday night, you realize that you only have a week until finals.
Once the shock has worn off, you sit and figure out exactly what you have to make on each final to get the grade you want (now how are you going to manage to get a 216 on your final to get a B...).
You even talk to your professor and he tells you that the final will not be hard if you study.
Okay, you finally calmed yourself down. I mean, come on, you still have a week until finals! That is so much time. But you might as well get a jump start so you can get as good of a grade as possible! There’s no time like the present so you crack open that textbook for the first time.
You manage to read one page of chapter one before you get a text from your friend.
You then spend the next 45 minutes on Facebook and Instagram before you remember exactly what you were doing. You call it quits because you still have a week and that is soooo much time.
Four days pass and you keep telling yourself you have so much time until finals. You realize it's already Friday and that finals are only three days away, so you begin to panic a little bit. But you tell yourself it’s okay because you have the whole weekend to devote to studying. No problem!
It’s 4:15pm on a Friday afternoon. You sit down at your desk, pull up your notes on your computer, open your book, and begin to study. You study for 30 minutes before your friend calls you and tells you that it's lady’s night at the bar. You tell her you will go with her because you desperately need one last night out before finals week. You say you’ll come over to get ready around 9 so that you can continue to study. You study for 5 more minutes before getting on Pinterest to look at cute outfits for tonight.
You end up going out Friday and Saturday. You wake up on Sunday around 12:30 in the afternoon, go get food and turn on Netflix. Around 5 p.m. that night you realize that it is Sunday and that finals start tomorrow. You go into full panic mode, but you decide to finish the episode of "Game of Thrones" that you’re watching because you can’t just stop in the middle of it. That’s madness.
You finish that episode and head to Starbucks and then the library. You stay up all night studying for your final the next day. You take the final and then pass out for like four hours. Then you wake up and start all over again and pull another all-nighter.
You finally make it through finals week, and hopefully, all your hard work paid off. You swear that you’re never going to procrastinate like this again, but we all know that’s not true.
Good luck and happy finals week!
