Summer is just around the corner which must mean that its the most dreaded week in college, finals. For some students, finals week is the week where the library becomes your new dorm, while others are just discovering the library for the first time. Either way, finals is a week of firsts. The first time people are racing for spots in the library, the first time drinking multiple cups of coffee a day, and the first of many meltdowns.
1. When your professor tells you that the final is cumulative.
Probably the biggest nightmare all college students hate to hear is that the final is cumulative. Not only do we have to learn the last unit of material, but we have to relearn an entire semester's worth of information.
2. Then being assigned multiple tests and projects by your professors the week before finals.
Why would our professors want us to start studying for finals early when we can just do multiple projects instead??
3. When you finally begin studying for finals and realize there isn't enough time to learn everything you already forgot from the semester.
That moment when you start studying and actually question if you ever went to the class because you can't remember anything.
4. Feeling like you've aged twenty years from lack of sleep.
When those late nights spent studying catch up to you and you finally understand why your parents never turn down a nap.
5. Not caring about how you look during finals week and accepting that you're fine with being a cat lady.
Not having the motivation to get dressed up during finals
6. Surviving mainly on junk food and caffeine during the week.
7. When you finally have a mental breakdown in the library from studying all day and night.
8. Then after your breakdown, deciding to write a new resume of your skills since you want to drop out.
9. Knowing you'd rather be in bed sleeping, but the library has become your home for the week.
10. When your parents call and ask how you're doing.
11. When you get to the free response section on a final and don't know the answer.
12. Asking your professor if there will be any extra credit.
13. When your professor tells you that final grades won't be rounded up.
When you look at the syllabus to calculate your grade and realize that it says your grade won't be rounded up.
14. Walking out of your last final and realizing you can finally sleep.
When you finally finish all your finals and get to go home for the summer knowing good and well you'll miss school.
