Finals are approaching and stress levels are rising. There are so many great things about December: Christmas music, ugly sweaters, Christmas parties, maybe even snow. But all of these glorious things are put on the back burner to the exams that determine whether you’ll be on the naughty or nice list when you get back home. Justin Bieber clearly had finals on his mind (not Selena) when he wrote these songs.
"What do you mean?"
Your professors have decided to teach up until the day before your cumulative final. As all the new information is being scrawled across the black board, you have no idea what is going on. When the professor asks if the class understands, you nod your head yes but you want to say no.
"Sorry"
As you’re cramming to fill your head with everything from the history of Russia to the stages of cell development, you begin to wonder if it is too late to now to say sorry because you are missing more than just three weeks of class notes. You get even more frustrated because each problem you solve is wrong and you’ve made those mistakes maybe once or twice. And by once or twice, I mean maybe a couple a hundred times.
"That should be me"
You are locked in your dorm studying while all of your friends at other school have been finished with finals for a week. You experience serious FOMO, thinking, "That should be me sleeping in until noon. That should be me watching endless Christmas movies. That should be me, this is so sad."
"Confident"
It’s test time. You’ve studied. You have put off all of your other responsibilities to make sure you are confident on this exam. Have you seen another person in 48 hours? Oh no no, oh no no. Have you showered? Oh no no, oh no no. But you’re down with that because people can tell by the way you walk into the test room, you are confident.
"Eenie Meenie"
Your test is abruptly stopped when you get to a question that you have remotely no idea how to answer. It had to have come from one of those colored boxes in the textbook that everyone skips. You can't make up your mind, mind, mind, mind, mind because it is a trick question. So you have resorted to what we like to call process of elimination in academia but what is really eenie meenie miney mo. Please don't waste your time, time, time, time, time because you only have 10 minutes left.
"Mistletoe"
You should have been playing in the winter snow this week, but you were underneath the huge stack of books. You don’t want to miss out on the holiday but you can’t stop staring at Youtube videos hoping to learn a semester’s worth of information. All this is over now! Your finals are finally finished and you can start celebrating! You can go home and tell your family that you love them so and maybe even meet someone underneath the mistletoe.
