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How Finals Really Have Me Feeling

Through all the stress of finals, find a way to know it's worth it.

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How Finals Really Have Me Feeling
Steinhardt

So let’s be real, you’ve probably read every article about finals just to avoid studying for them. Am I right? Yeah me too. So what’s another one? Let me tell you how Finals have me feeling this year. Stressed, sad, and happy.


Stressed for the obvious reason. Hello! How fair is it that my whole grade depends on one freaking test? So let me get this straight, I get good grades on all my assignments and I have an A but I get a bad grade on this final and I end with a C in the class? Go to college they said, it’ll be fun they sad. YEAH RIGHT. I can’t tell you how many times I question school during finals season. If it isn’t me complaining about a final, it’s my friends. Sometimes the little things around campus during finals help like the puppies. My school had miniature ponies this year! It’s cool for a little and then as you’re petting this cute creature you go into a haze and think,”omg why am I petting this animal when I should be studying?” and then continue to procrastinate because I mean, who can resist a freaking pony!? My final thought… get it? Is to study hard, have a good group of friends to cry about finals with, and once you get that grade, JUST BREATH.

Walking around school, you just look at the defeat in people’s faces and it is the worst thing ever. I just want to walk up to them and say, “ I promise it’ll be okay” and pat them on the back. Who are we kidding? That won’t make them feel better! Not to mention they probably stayed up all night studying and they’re just mad because it was for nothing. It is so sad that you question your whole semester because of one test. You try to calculate everything you could have done better on like you can change it now. Bottom line is, you can’t change it. I seriously ask myself why I wasn’t born a genius about four times during a study sesh and then call my mom and tell her to come get me because I can’t handle it. At this point, I’m looking into my future and thinking to myself,” If I can’t handle a stupid test, how will I be able to adult?!” Hopefully, this is during the study session of the last test because at this moment I’ve hit my ultimate breaking point. I’ve had an unruly amount of coffee and probably had less than 3 hours of sleep each night but it’s fine because of good grades right? We can only hope.

Last but not least I feel happy. After all the emotions through finals I feel happy because when it comes down to it, you’re done with another semester! You’re closer to that dream of earning a degree. You’re closer to that amazing career you’ve been waiting for and that is an amazing feeling! So whenever you’re stressed, freaking out, and on the verge of crying in that coffee cup tell yourself that it’s going to be worth it. When you’re holding that degree you won’t think about all the stress, you’ll think about the hard work you put in and how you EARNED that degree. So I’m here to tell you good luck on exams, pray for the strength to get through these final weeks of the semester, and blow those exams out of the water. YOU GOT THIS!

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