I honestly believe the week before spring break is the worst week of the year. You are burnt out from the first eight weeks of the semester, and that’s if you even recovered from last semester. This one is for the people who hate the week before spring break, hate studying for midterms, and just can’t wait to be on a beach somewhere.

1. The Forgetful Feeling

The feeling that you are most definitely forgetting an assignment or a meeting, but you have no idea what it was. You end up rush-emailing a classmate, or just saying “screw it” and making yourself a bag of popcorn to eat while watching Netflix.

2. The Feeling of No Motivation

This is the early stage. It usually occurs within the first two days of the week. The feeling that the amount of stuff you have to do has piled up so much, that not doing ANY of it is much better.

3. The “Oh S#*@!” Feeling

This hits on a Tuesday or Wednesday night after the previous stage. This is where you decide that you actually care about your grades and your future. So you must begin writing the papers and studying for the tests. The worst part is, due to procrastination, you only have like, eight hours to do all of it. Oh s@#%, for real.

4. The “Is it Friday yet?” Feeling

I don’t think this feeling pertains to a specific day or time during the week. It starts on Sunday night and does not end until Friday afternoon. TGIF has never been so real.

5. The “ARE YOU KIDDING ME?” feeling

This is where forgetting bites you in the butt. You forget to do a paper, or forget there is a midterm test in a class you never go to. There's one friend in your class who always has a way of reminding you by saying something like, “So how long did you study for the midterm?” Then they proceed to say, “Because I studied for like, five hours. I think this is going to be rough.” It is at this point that you know you're screwed.

6. The Feeling of Failure

This happens right after you turn in a paper or take a test. You feel you have failed your grades, and have failed your future. You wonder how many times the professor is going to laugh at your coffee-induced, 4 a.m., 800-word ramble. You also wonder how your prof will react when they see that you drew a smiley face on your scantron. You feel that you kinda let yourself down.

7. The feeling of acceptance

It’s near the end of the week, and you've accepted your failure and your lack of effort. You start to see midterm grades being put in. As your grades lower, you don’t cry. No, you grab your favorite kind of liquor, and start doing pulls every time you see a grade drop. You do this because you know that once Friday hits, grades will be far lower than they were Monday. That, my friends, is true acceptance. You are just done with this week.

8. The Feeling of Freedom

IT’S FRIDAY and you are FREE. No more papers, no more tests. Just beaches and sunny weather. Here’s to the week you want to forget, and the following week that you will never remember!

HAPPY SPRING BREAKING!