Finals, a time in every college student’s life that they dread from the first day that classes start for the semester. If you get lucky, your professor doesn’t think that a final assessment of everything that you’ve learned in their class is necessary and they let you off with a paper or test on the last official day of classes. If you’re not quite so lucky you get a professor that thinks you need to remember everything they’ve said over the past four months and gives you a final over it that is worth no less than 15 percent of your final grade.
No matter if you have a final this semester or not, it is important for us to recognize some feelings we all have when that dreaded semester end comes and we have to suffer through the terror that is finals.
1. Walking around campus the last day of class and celebrating like..
2. But you realize that you shouldn’t have gotten so excited because you still have finals to take
3. When you're procrastinating studying for your finals by doing anything possible
4. When someone tells you that you should probably start studying because the final is in two days
5. When you start studying and realize you remember a lot less than you thought you did
6. When you finally start studying but have to stop after five hours for a dance break
7. Explaining your reasoning when your friend asks you about some of the material, you answer, and they ask how you know it
8. When they ask you a follow-up question, and you don’t really know the answer, but you try to answer anyway
9. When you’ve been studying for 12 hours straight and your roommate asks if you want some of her queso
10. When someone tells you that you should take a break and get some sleep but you’re getting a little over-confident
11. Its 3 a.m. the night before your test, you haven’t slept in 36 hours, you realize you have so much left to learn before your final at 9 a.m. and someone does something that upsets you
12. How you say a prayer before you go into the classroom the morning of your final
13. You make a sweep around the room to all of your friends before the test starts
14. How you look at your best friend as the professor is passing out exams
15. Your face when you open your test and you don’t know the answer to the very first question
16. What you want to yell at your professor as you’re going through your test and all of the information that they said wouldn’t be on there, is on there
17. After the exam and your friend says, “I didn’t think it was that bad.”
18. How you feel immediately after your final…
19. vs. how you feel a couple of hours later when you realize that you’re done for the semester
20. Your answer when your friends ask if you want to go downtown to celebrate it all being over
