The semester is almost over, classes are almost over, exams are, well, exams are here. This is it. The last days of sleepless nights before we reach our much-anticipated break. As college students, there are some moments before winter break that we are all too familiar with.

1. When you’re confident that you know what you’re doing until you realize that you’re not quite ready yet.

2. Late nights in the library become routine in the week of finals.

3. When you try to convince yourself to finally focus on studying and studying only.

4. When you find yourself actually studying for more than 10 minutes and someone tries to drag you away from the study mode that you’ve tried for so long to induce.

5. Scheduling sleep. From naps to sweet, sweet five plus hours of sleep, you’re always considering where you could squeeze in an hour of sleep here, a half an hour there and so on. Finals wait for no one.

6. When just watching the pilot episode on Netflix turns into, “I definitely have time to finish all the seasons.”

7. When you finish your first exam you see the end nearing, and you know that you too can make it to the break.

8. But then you realize that you still have more exams.

9. But you know that nothing can compare to the feeling that comes after you finish your final final exam.

10. So you keep pushing through, until the very end.

The week inches along, but you somehow get through it, one hour at a time, with all limbs intact.