It’s finals week and our caffeine-addled brains may tend to
stretch the truth just a bit. Whether you’re trying to convince the smartest
kid in class to study with you or promising yourself you’ll just take one more
30-minute nap, there’s often a difference between what we say during finals
week and what we’re really saying.
1. “Want to study with me?”
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Translation: “I need to relearn everything. Help. Please.”
2. “Is this exam open note?”![]()
Translation: “Do I really have to study for this?”
3. “I’ve been studying all night”
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Translation: “I've been watching Netflix all night with a
textbook open”
4. “Yeah, I barely studied for this exam”
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Translation: “I studied a ton for this exam but don’t feel
like helping you.”
5. “Is it too late to withdraw?”
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Translation: “I need a 137% on this final just to get a C in
the class”
6. “That exam wasn’t too bad”
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Translation: “I either made a 100 or a 3”
7. “Can we compare notes?”
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Translation: “I’m going to copy your notes”
8. “I’m just going to take a quick nap”
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Translation: “See you in 4 hours”
9. “The professor never taught anything that was on the final!”
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Translation: “Maybe I shouldn’t have skipped class so much”
10. “Okay I’m really going to study now”
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Translation: “Oooo a new Buzzfeed Quiz!”
11. “Will there be a review session?”
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Translation: “Please just teach me exactly what is on this
exam”
12. “It’s finals week. Calories don’t count”
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Translation: “This is the fourth time I’ve ordered from
Grubhub today”.
13. “No one said the final would be cumulative!”
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Translation: “I didn’t study nearly as much as I should
have”.
14. "The final isn't cumulative?"
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Translation: "I studied the wrong chapters" *face palm*
Best of luck!
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