Going home for the summer may have its downsides, but at a certain point in the second semester, you’re ready. The time comes when it’s a relief to bid a long-awaited farewell to professors, exams, pencils, dining hall food and, for some, that boxy two-by-four dorm. Unfortunately, the final weeks of school tend to be the most challenging to claw through because, for inexplicable reasons, we still have papers and homework to finish while all we want to do is tan, drink iced tea and drive around with the windows rolled down. Don’t worry; we aren’t alone. As per usual, our loyal pals Nick and Schmidt feel the same.
1. When you first get back from spring break and
realize that no longer can you lay in your bed until your parents tell you the
dinner they just made you is ready. Because real life is a thing.
2. Assuming that your professors will understand your pain and hence give you easy assignments to take your leisurely time on for the rest of the semester.
3. But then realizing that, instead, you have 16 exams, 24 papers and a novel to publish before you are freed.
4. When you get to class and your professor asks you a question, but you've already checked out so you just state the first thing that comes to your mind.
5. Deciding that two days ago was crunch time. And so today is officially ... crunch time.
But seriously.
6. So you man up and give yourself a rousing, inspiring pep talk.
7. ...which works, until just absolutely everything is going wrong and you’re dying.
8. So there’s no other choice but to simply take a break and pretend school is not real.
9. Instead of studying, you fully commit yourself to preparing for the summer months which are inching closer and closer.
10. But your professor keeps sneakily reminding you that “there are still five weeks of school left,” destroying your daydreams of jean shorts and swimming pools.
11. Eventually, finals week rolls around. So...
12. You attempt to drown your pain. In whatever way possible.
13. After a week of coffee and libraries and crying, there comes a moment when you finally conquer your last final. And you are the champion of the world.
14. … but when you remember just how long summer break is...
15. You realize all too late that after about two weeks back home, you are going to constantly crave everyone and everything here.
And the countdown to fall semester begins...
