The time is upon us. We're getting to the end of spring semester. In high school, the end of the year was a time of excitement about the upcoming summer holiday, but once you get to college, the end of the year normally means crying into a bowl of ramen noodles, taking 15 minute power naps on the bus ride to class, and calculating the exact grade you need on a final to hurdle over the C-Wall. For those of you not on a college campus, the end of the semester is not pretty. Let me paint you a picture...
1. At first, you think you can manage homework, class, and a social life, no sweat.
2. But those due dates have a way of creeping up on you.
3. And you realize you have literally a week to turn this shit around.
4. But it's fine, everything is fine. We're all fine.
5. Except no one is fine. The entire campus is slowly but surely losing all hope.
6. You realize people can sleep anywhere, no matter the time of day, who's around, or what they should be doing.
7. You know exactly the grades you need to survive the semester with your GPA remotely intact.
8. You don't really have time to eat, nor do you have any money left, so you eat nothing but instant noodles and fast food for every meal. Plus, stress eating always helps.
9. You realize that any group projects you have are going to be disasters. You slowly lose faith in humanity because of the shortcomings of three people.
10. You'll have to give a presentation in at least one of your classes. Given your lack of sleep, lack of motivation, and lack of the will to live, it's going to be rough, but you'll try your best to make it look like you're not dying on the inside.
11. At some point, you'll come to accept the fact that you may have to drop out of college and become a stripper.
12. But in the end, you'll get through it all and make it to summer vacation, and all will be right with the world.
13. Until you realize you'll have to do it all over again next semester.
But hey, it's college. It's hard and confusing, but also pretty awesome too. Stay strong for the remainder of the semester. May the Finals Gods be with you.
