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?”

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” 

Translation: “I've been watching Netflix all night with a textbook open”   

4. “Yeah, I barely studied for this exam” 

Translation: “I studied a ton for this exam but don’t feel like helping you.”   

5. “Is it too late to withdraw?” 

Translation: “I need a 137% on this final just to get a C in the class”   

6. “That exam wasn’t too bad” 

Translation: “I either made a 100 or a 3”   

7. “Can we compare notes?” 

Translation: “I’m going to copy your notes”   

8. “I’m just going to take a quick nap” 

Translation: “See you in 4 hours”   

9. “The professor never taught anything that was on the final!”

Translation: “Maybe I shouldn’t have skipped class so much”  

10. “Okay I’m really going to study now” 

Translation: “Oooo a new Buzzfeed Quiz!”   

11. “Will there be a review session?” 

Translation: “Please just teach me exactly what is on this exam”  

12. “It’s finals week. Calories don’t count” 

Translation: “This is the fourth time I’ve ordered from Grubhub today”.     

13. “No one said the final would be cumulative!”

Translation: “I didn’t study nearly as much as I should have”.

14. "The final isn't cumulative?"

Translation: "I studied the wrong chapters" *face palm*

Best of luck!