Dear Finals Week,

The three weeks of classes between Thanksgiving and Christmas break that lead up to you are undoubtedly the most stressful, crammed, anxiety-induced weeks of the fall semester. We scram around to finish papers, assignments and semester projects in the two weeks before you, and then you, the most dreaded week of all, hit us like freight train.

The amounts of stress and worrying you bring to us causes an estimated 73 percent of college students to get approximately three new wrinkles on their forehead. You cause us to binge eat junk food, bit off our nails and many sleepless nights. You fill the library with students on the verge of tears who seriously contemplate dropping out. You may be the only week that makes the entire college population question if college is really worth it and cry for an entire week straight.

So many assignments, so little motivation. As much as we have to do, we will still procrastinate until your due dates are closer than we realize. All motivation is gone by this point in the semester, yet you ask so much of us. We are 60 percent tired, 35 percent over the semester and 5 percent motivation to finish out the semester strong. You prolong our time away from us being home in our own beds and eating homemade food.

You are currently the vain of our existence. Your due dates may be been set for months, but like that bad grade we got on an assignment or test weeks ago, you are easily ignored. You make us want to continuously drown our sorrows in handles upon handles of alcohol. We just want you to know that we despise you and deeply dread you every semester. We really can wait to see you at the end of the spring semester.

Sincerely,

Sleep-Deprived, Stressed-Out, Cranky-As-Hell College Students Everywhere