It's here. We've felt the pressure of it all semester, lurking in the shadows, breathing down our necks... But we can't ignore it anymore. Finals week is right around the corner, and there is no avoiding it. Prepare for the all-nighters, the stress, the tears, and studying until your brain goes numb. Here's finals week, as told by modern family.

1. You realize you really, really have to study... so you do everything else you can possibly think of.

2. Eventually, you actually start trying to study... but a "five-minute" twitter break isn't going to hurt anyone, right?

3. But really, you need to do well on your exams, so you shut down your computer, open your notes... and realize you should have started sooner.

4. You try to ask your professors for extra help, but they're like:

5. So you keep studying on your own, trying your best to get rid of your growing feeling of despair.

6. Eventually, you feel like you might actually know what you're doing... but it's a short lived feeling.

7. The night before, you try to get a good nights sleep...

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8. As you walk into the exam room, your confidence is at an all time low.

9. When you open the exam and realize it's nothing like the study guide:

10. When you finish and turn in your exam, you look at your professor like:

11. When your finals are finally done with, you realize it's all kind of a blur.

12. And regardless of whether your final grades make you react like this:

13. Or this:

14. You got through it, and you have a whole semester before you have to worry about taking finals again.