Finals week is the busiest time for students. All-nighters, hours spent in the library, and enough coffee to fill a tub are just the beginning to a hell-filled week. If anybody out there knows what it's like to be under the stress of needing to work hard to achieve your goals, it's Leslie Knope and the rest of Pawnee's Parks and Recreation Department.
Realizing you only have a week until Finals begin
This is the point where you start to regret all of your procrastination, also probably the first of many times you will cry.
So you do whatever you can to avoid your problems
Naturally, the easiest way to avoid your stress is to continue procrastinating until you run out of options.
Trying to get rid of all distractions so you can study
It's game time. No more messing around here.
Sleep Deprivation Ensues
Yet your teachers continue to assign work
No, professor, I'm not currently drowning in both my homework and my tears, please assign me a new project.
Waking up from a two-hour nap break is almost physically painful
Because you know you still have to write three essays and create a presentation, and oh, God why did you fall asleep in the first place?
And there are a few moments when you question your sanity:
You start to not act like yourself, crying continues.
You know you’re still going to try to go out for the weekend
Gotta blow off steam somehow in order to remain sane.
Even though you also know it’s a bad idea
You try to force your friends into study groups:
Because if you're all going to study through the tears, you might as well do it together.
But it only leads to further distraction:
And you end up in a worse position than you started out in.
If your campus brings animals to help de-stress its students, it is literally the best day of the semester
This is the moment when you stop crying and realize that maybe you can get through the rest of the week. Do not lose the feeling of this moment.
You will never feel positively ready for open response questions
It could be on anything, and you're prepared for nothing.
And nothing that you studied shows up on the test
Was the last sleepless week really for nothing?
You’re sure you’ve forgotten what happiness felt like
as you leave the exam room
Was it all really worth it?
But finals are done
and you survived!
You earned this, go and enjoy it!
The moment you realized you passed
Now you have a month vacation before the vicious cycle starts again.
