Well, guys, we did it. We made it past finals week virtually unscathed. Can I say the same for our grades, probably not, in fact I'm pretty sure at least half of them are going to put me in a frenzy when they finally come out, but that's beside the point. What matters right now is that we're finally done. After a long and arduous battle, we managed beat the system one more time. And now that victory has officially been claimed, the next question to be asked is this: "What the heck do we do now?" And for those of you that are actually asking yourselves this, I have one answer for y'all. Go out and enjoy your break, because CHRISTMAS!!! Oh what's that? Finals had you so frazzled that you forgot about the break? Well then it's a good thing I decided to make this week's post a reminder of that, then!

Ahh yes, Christmas break, the ultimate reward after an incredibly taxing first semester at school. You get to come home, relax, hang out with friends and family, and basically do whatever it is that your heart desires.Sounds like an awesome deal, right? Well, I hate to break it to you, but that just isn't how it's going to happen. Once you get home, the first thing on your mind will probably be to contact a friend or two, announcing your triumphant return and all of the great things you have planned. But as you're explaining, you overlook the fact that these friends are still in school, dealing with their finals, or worse, already have plans made with other people. You're beginning to realize that your friends haven't made time for you during the break.

So, once you've taken the necessary steps to shun said friends, you move on to the next best thing; the internet. Ahh yes, absolutely nothing can go wrong here! You have access to so much stuff, you realize that don't really need friends and just binge watch a ton of cat videos and anything on Netflix for as long as you want. But you soon get bored of that and decide to mix things up a bit by reading a book or two, but even that loses its luster after a while, and you decide maybe going out for a stroll will fix this.

It doesn't. Instead, seeing all of the people roaming around, groups of friends, couples, etc., just makes it worse, and you retreat back to your home, where you know it's safe. But soon, boredom gets the better of you and out of sheer desperation, you do the one thing you swore to never do. You go on your laptop and look up your final grades. Yeah, you swore to yourself that you wouldn't until sometime after Christmas, but you're already miserable, so why not? So you do and once you've had a good long cry, you curl up in a ball and decide to go to bed early, because the world has clearly had enough of you and you of it. You promise yourself that you'll do something productive tomorrow, but as you're drifting off to sleep, you're already able to tell that those plans won't be happening.

You wake up and the same pattern as yesterday occurs, only this time, it comes with the bonus Facebook post of one, or more, of your friends talking about their Christmas vacation to the Bahamas, or some other exotic and expensive place, basically indirectly saying how much better their lives are than yours. And as you sit there, staring at the picture of them surfing on a really high wave, or skiing down a mountain, your mind starts plotting ways to get back at them for this, how you'll go on a really awesome vacation too and have a better time than they ever would. But even as you're trying desperately to convince yourself that such a scenario could actually happen, reality comes in the form of your ghost town of a wallet and puts your optimism back in its place.

At this point, you're literally walking around in circles. pondering the meaning of life itself. You begin to think back to how things used to be back in the day, when you were able to come up with a new thing to do every five seconds and never got bored. You start to envy the past you and their limitless imagination and wonder if you could ever be that way again. Then it hits you, a sad, painful, but very truthful epiphany that makes things so much worse.

This is only day two of your break.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that I'm not grateful that the break and end of the semester has finally arrived, I'm super thrilled. All I'm saying is that time can sometimes make things last longer than they need to be. Breaks are awesome, but when you don't have anything to do, or anyone to enjoy them with, they just sort of become an excruciatingly long hiatus before you have to head back to school again. When we were kids, we looked forward to these things because our minds were still young and unrestricted. But nowadays, with all of the responsibilities that are gradually increasing and being dropped on us, it's a bit harder to manage all of that free time. Sometimes, we're so used to working our butts off that, whenever we're put in a position where we don't have to, our already exhausted minds don't know how to cope with it.

This doesn't apply to everyone, but I know, for quite a few, it does. So for this break, guys, make sure you take it easy. Don't try to do anything spontaneous and try to force yourself to enjoy the break, just let it play out. If something happens, it'll happen. There's no need to rush. You have plenty of time.