As hell...I mean finals week slowly approaches, college students across the globe prepare for sleepless nights full of caffeine, cramming and regret for waiting until the night before to begin studying for your final at 8 a.m.. Nothing like starting the holiday season by trying to explain to your parents why your grades continue to plummet as does your dignity. At least five times a day, you'll catch yourself seriously contemplating what exactly it is you're doing with your life and if emotionally sabotaging yourself is actually worth the certificate that apparently makes you qualified in a certain area. It's hard to describe what you go through during finals week to outsiders, so here is finals week as told by the characters of Grey's Anatomy.

Your sleeping schedule is nonexistent.

You think about all of the other the job alternatives to getting a degree...

And when your study group decides to meet in the library, you make this point very clear.

Your patience for others dwindles as the days go on....

And you come to the chilling realization there's nothing you can do to boost that statistics grade.

Your daily pep talks become routine...

And you try to explain to your professor that this isn't the life for you.

There's no such thing as a diet during finals week, in fact, it's the exact opposite...

And personal hygiene gets placed on the back burner.

You have to do 17 things at once in order to stay productive.

When your classmate brags about how well prepared they are for the final you get the urge to slap them.

There are at least three mental breakdowns throughout the week that nothing can help...

And you become so exhausted that you can't even perform simple, everyday tasks.

The one thing that's keeping you from throwing your books off of the highest building on campus:

That feeling you get when you walk out of your last test....

But when you realize that finals week is FINALLY over: