1. Cramps

I honestly don't need to write about how much that shit hurts. See, cramps aren't just a normal stomachache. It's a volcano of knives torpedoing your stomach. It feels as if your organs are being twisted, and the worst thing is, it breaks away your concentration. So if I was in the middle of an exam, I wouldn't have enough time to pop an Advil in my mouth before my cramps just go through the roof with that HIGH PITCHED intensity. I have to hide that pain with a smile on my face? Fuck no.

2. Fatigue

On top of that pain gushing from your stomach, there is most definitely gonna be a knockout of a cloud of grogginess covering your eyes almost immediately. Staring at that exam sheet has never been so difficult. Opening your eyes would be more difficult.

3. Food cravings at the most annoying times

After reading the exam questions, you wanna either drink something or eat something. The worst thing is, you can't eat. You can't down your whole water bottle in the crowded lecture hall either if you don't want people judging or staring at you. Worst of all, the hunger you most likely feel will be intensified by three or four.

Looking at the clock, you start rapidly counting down the minutes until you get the hell out of there to run to the dining halls. Except you still have another hour and 10 minutes. Fuck. The exam just started. You gotta bury that sinking feeling in your stomach and ignore the hunger pains.

4. Emotions out of nowhere

When it used to be internal tears while you're reading your textbook or doing math problems, now it's full blown tears sliding down your cheek and filling up on your worksheets. Before long, the words won't be legible, for the paper will be wet, and you have to print out more copies from your school printer. Suddenly, another tear rolls down your cheek. Oh no.

5. Zoning out

You don't know what the fuck you are doing. During the last 10 minutes of your exam, you suddenly find yourself just ZONED OUT. No better way to describe it: all of your memorized vocab and math formulas just leave your head, leaving you with a state of empty air. You struggle to take it back, but you just find yourself grasping at the air bubbles above your head.

6. Constantly feeling fat

Yup. Constantly feeling fat and complaining about it. Picking at your stomach fat. Going to the salad bar on campus and trying to exercise with that bloated belly but simultaneously wanting to eat a whole meat market. How come I can never win?

7. Being an unorganized mess

That room that you cleaned two weeks ago is irritating you. In fact, everything is, everything that is organized is. Seconds later, all your shit is on the floor. And you're not gonna pick it up anytime soon.

8. One word: binge-eating

What's better than studying or cramming? Binge-eating, of course! All your leftover tuition money is going toward snacks! Just don't regret it afterwards, sweetheart, when you're trying to buy textbooks for next semester.

9. Isolation

Who cares about friends? At this moment in time, when your period hits your life, you drop your friends, just like that. Personally, I start ghosting them (no offense). It's just when my period hits, I don't have that energy to socialize. I just have that mindset of locking myself in my room and eating snacks in the dark with some loud-ass rock music to keep me going.

10. Catching those Z's

It's finals season anyway. So before you start letting those waterworks out, the better answer is to cozy up and catch those ZZZ's.