Futurama is a sci-fi comedy with a scope that includes the entire universe. With a writing staff having a collective education of over 50 years at Harvard, the clever comedy utilizes its vast temporal and special scope to make some pointed statements, get a laugh, and create some surprisingly heartfelt moments. Here are our top 5 Futurama GIFS to help get you through finals.
When we’re looking at our grades, trying to figure out if there is any way to salvage a semester that started out with such high hopes. Projects to complete, A’s to earn, professors to impress, etc. In an episode that begins with the celebration of the Professor’s 150 year anniversary, the doddering Hubert Farnsworth creates a clone in order to continue his scientific legacy. After being transported to the Near Death Star, a virtual retirement home for the elderly, by the Sunset Crew Robots, his crew is attacked. Much like the realization that the semester is ending and project due dates and finals are quickly approaching, the rapidly encroaching danger of adversary ships presses Fry to express his anxiety.
While not studying, writing essays, attending classes, completing projects, or any of the other hundred things that seem to be going on this time of year, we also need to spend some time trying not to think about those crippling responsibilities. Reading something other than a textbook, digging out a hobby we haven’t really touched all semester, commiserating with other responsibility-dodging friends, watching Futurama, etc.
If you don’t skip a few classes over the course of the semester, you’re missing out on something. Whether that’s sleep, an on-campus organization sponsored events, or a road-trip, there are other, sometimes more important, aspects to your college education than your classwork. Take a break, sleep in…but do so knowing that we’re just putting off work we’re inevitably going to have to do. No stress.
At this point, it’s a given that everyone understands the importance caffeine plays in making it through the final weeks of the semester. It’s the fuel that powers frenetic late night essays, it allows us to make that 8 A.M. class, and it helps us sound coherent about a topic we (should) have spent the entire semester researching.
Tied for number 1, depending on how your semester turns out, are the following GIFS.
College is rough. No matter if we're enrolled in honors credits, double majoring, wrapping up your degree, or finishing up a relaxing semester, there is always the potential of looking back and finding that we simply weren’t able to accomplish all that we wanted to this semester. There are an infinite number of reasons: taking on too many credits, taking too many project intensive courses, working too much, finding new interests, on-campus organizations, etc. The list goes on.
Just remember that college is a part of your life. Take as long as you need. Get as much as you can out of your college experience, whatever that means for you, even if that means failing a couple classes along the way.
After several weeks of barely bearable stress, projects completed last minute, a couple textbooks skimmed, and a few essays written in eloquent bullshit, we made it. We accomplished our goals for the semester. We left our GPAs a little better than we found them. Congratulations.
