Finals week is upon us and I'm not even close to ready. I have a mental count of the days I have left here at UCLA and they are decreasing in a phenomenally slow rate.

Finals week is hard because it is a cumulation of what you have been studying for the past 10-15 weeks. It is a gruesome time where everyone's at a high level of stress. Being in this environment is emotionally and mentally exhausting. Seeing your friends go through breakdowns and high-stress situations keep one in a state of complete anxiety for a while.

Above all this, it's almost time for winter break. Time to go back and relax with your family and go home.

Being an international student, I don't go home for Thanksgiving so I haven't seen my family in about 3 months and that is pretty exhausting in itself.

Knowing that the end is so near, yet so far is frustrating. I may be going home in less than a week but this is frankly one of the stressful weeks I've ever had.

So, the worst part of finals for me isn't the tests, even though that is pretty bad, but the anticipation to go back home.

Don't get me wrong, I love UCLA and everything in it but I am so ready to take a break, give my mind that rest it deserves from the constant stress it is put under.

College brings about different aspects in all of us but the homesickness is the hardest to cure. I want to be in my bed at home already, and go shop in Dubai. It's been so long that I have had homecooked food and slept in just for the sake of sleeping in. I haven't worn clothes that aren't sweatpants or gone out to just have fun instead of counting down the time I need to be back to do work in such a long time and I am ready to do it. But before all of that, I have these finals looming over me like an unwanted headache.

The thing to take away from this article is that we are all tired and exhausted and all of us want to go home so badly, but we must give our full focus to the exams that we need to ace to get that GPA we want.

Good luck studying, Y'all!