Few things rival the difficulty that accompanies sitting down at a desk and hopelessly trying to crank out an important essay. Lucky for you, you're not alone. Even more lucky for you, if you're looking for a reason to procrastinate: look no further. Here are 20 times "Gilmore Girls" perfectly captured your feelings on essay writing.

When your teacher first gives you the assignment, and you can already feel the profound dread and impending doom that will come with the essay:

When the essay is way too many pages longer than you're willing to write, which means you'll have to spend way too many extra hours concentrating and working on it:

When you can't seem to form a solid argument for your life... There's no worse feeling than watching your essay's organization crumble before your eyes.

When you have so many assignments that you have no choice but to use a Friday or Saturday night to get it done... Let the pity party begin!

And on that Friday night, you're so upset about the assignment that you can't stop complaining to yourself/everyone around you about how much your essay, class, or teacher sucks.

When that research paper is looking really grim:

Trying to reach a page requirement like:

When you have to peer review and your classmates just don't get what you're trying to say... Are they just utterly unhelpful, or are you that bad of a writer?

When you actually feel like your peer reviewer knows what they're saying, but that means they're giving you a million things to fix:

And when you're trying to pretend that you'll accept and work on the criticisms they give you...

Asking someone to help you come up with a topic or synonym while you're stressed is never a good idea. But it's not like they had any good ideas, either...

You can't be bothered with nonsense when that essay is due at midnight. You'll apologize for lashing out when you're done writing. Priorities, people.

When it's 3 A.M. and you don't know how your brain is still functioning... Thank God for coffee.

Texting your friends about how horrible the assignment or your teacher is, and being ridiculously grateful that someone is having an equal number of mental breakdowns in one night:

When the stress starts to hit you, but people keep distracting you while you're trying to work:

Trying to find any excuse to stop writing and finally just go to sleep:

When you're almost done writing, and your mind is racing with thoughts of everything you want to do when you're finally done suffering:

Trying to rationalize all the horrible criticism you're going to receive when your essay gets graded:

Emotion #1 when submitting your essay: at least you're finally done?

Emotion #2 when submitting your essay: it doesn't matter if it's all there, because you haven't slept since two nights ago and you're nothing but a human embodiment of stress and exhaustion and this essay is going to single-handedly destroy your grade for the class.

When you're finally done for good: out of sight, out of mind.