Finals are rough. It's the end of the semester, and the end seems so close- yet so, so far. College is the pathway to adulthood. At least one pathway. For Nick Miller, from FOX's hit "New Girl", a few years of law school was all it took to make him realize higher education wasn't for him.

For those days though when you realize you can't just drop out of school, become a bartender and live in an incredible 4 bedroom, loft apartment in LA with your best friends, here are the most Nick Miller ways of handling finals, and life.

This is finals week, according to Nick Miller.

1. Exams haven't even started, but you're already turning to the bottle.

Don't worry professor, it's just coffee.

2. You attend a school-sponsored de-stress session but realize it's not helping at all.

No amount of yoga or puppies can put my life back together. We're too far in to get help now.

3. Depending on how long you've been in school, you might consider yourself a master of finals week. Eh, probably not.

Shouldn't we all have figured this out by now?

4. Your diet throughout the week has succumbed to caffeine, simple sugars and takeout.

What? As if you have time to cook?

5. After (at least) 24 hours in the library, you check yourself in the bathroom mirror.

You haven't changed clothes in who knows how long, your hair is greasy and matted, and you smell like a mix of recycled air and stale coffee.

6. You look at your friend and wonder if you're both slowly losing your mind.

Oh, so this is what sleep deprivation feels like.

7. As you exam date quickly approaches, you watch your future slip away.

Living as a hermit somewhere in the mountains looks pretty good right about now.

8. After you realize you can't study at home, you return to the library, only to find thousands of people and nowhere to sit.

Not a table, chair or power outlet in sight.

9. The night before your exam, you contemplate if it's all worth it.

That would be a no.

10. The morning of, you sleep through your alarm, hit traffic and can't find the testing room.

Your lack of sleep contributes to missing the blatant "Pull" sign on the door.

11. You walk out and instantly regret that one night you chose not to study and watch "Elf" instead.

Although, it probably wouldn't have made a difference.

12. Your parents call to ask you how it went.

They're so excited to hear that you might drop everything and just move back home.

13. Then your friends ask you how it went.

You don't feel like talking about it.

14. At this point, you just need a drink.

"You treat an outside wound with rubbing alcohol, you treat an inside wound with drinking alcohol."

15. But at the end of it all, you'll be able to look back and maybe even laugh about it.

Your life isn't defined by one class or one exam. You might not be a surgeon, a lawyer, or astronaut, but you never know what life will throw you.

Who knows? You could write one hell of a zombie novel.