When you look through your calendar of everything you have to do in the next two weeks:
When you try to justify why you're too busy to go to your classes during dead week:
When your professor tells you they're not giving a final:
When your professor announces that your exam is scheduled for the Friday of finals week:
When you have to make sure to plan for your mental breakdown of the day:
When you try to cram all of the information from your textbook that you were supposed to read the night before the final:
When you're completely unprepared on the day of the test and you debate how bad your grade would be if you didn't show up:
When you immediately forget everything you crammed in your brain after the exam so that you can start cramming for next one:
When you're studying with a group and no one will stop talking:
When you try and fail to be original on your final presentation:
When you get assigned a final project on top of the final you already have for one class:
When you decide that eating sounds better than working even though you're not hungry:
When you have to make sure that you take a break for some me time every once in a while so you don't lose your mind:
When you struggle to think of how to start your first sentence on your paper:
When you have to pull an all-nighter to finish that last assignment that you procrastinated on:
When you finally get your grade up to the next letter grade and hope that you don't mess it up:
When your professor gives you an extension on the deadline for your final paper:
When you just can't handle the pressure anymore:
When you look in the mirror and realize that you've worn the same sweats three days in a row:
When you can't remember the last time that you saw sunlight:
When you finally go outside after being inside for days:
When you ace a final and you know it:
When you start taking your frustration out on everything else for no reason:
When your friends start bothering you to hang out while you are trying to study:
When you decide that you've spent too much time in isolation and deserve to go out and have some fun:
When you have to sort through all of your papers and doodles from the semester to find your notes:
When all of your friends are done with their finals and are celebrating but you still aren't finished with yours:
When you try to give yourself a pep talk before your test:
When you finally get to walk out of your last exam of the semester:
When you realize that you actually made it out of the semester alive:
When you have to say goodbye to all of your college friends for a whole month:
When you find out that there's a curve:
When you finally leave campus to go home for winter break:
When you get home and realize how soon the holidays are:
When Christmas finally arrives and you realize that it was all worth it:
