Summer is quickly approaching and there is a lot to do in order to prepare for the end of the semester. Now that the end of the year is near and finals are just around the corner, our lives can be explained in the words of Barney Stinson from “How I Met Your Mother.”

1. Most of us still hold resentment toward our friends who went somewhere sunny over spring break and got tan while we were at home glaring at their Instagram photos.

2. We’re dreading finals week with a burning passion and are trying to convince ourselves that everything will be OK. No one really believes us though no matter how many times that we try to convince him or her.

3. We’re trying to figure out how to cram three months of material into a few weeks of studying. As we try to figure out how to do this, our friends are watching on with a mixture of amazement and disbelief.

4. We’re beginning to come to terms with the fact that cramming all that information in such a short period of time is unrealistic. Unfortunately, we probably realized this reality a couple of hours before the clock strikes midnight on the day of our exam.

5. We’re constantly checking Blackboard to see if our professors have finished grading the assignment that we handed in three weeks ago and when they do, it’s bad.

6. The only thing that is getting us through the rest of semester is the knowledge that soon enough, we’ll be reunited with our friends and will be taking stereotypical beach selfies.

7. We’re calculating our GPA and trying to figure out if there’s any hope of saving it. Most of the time when we calculate, we’re hoping that if we get a C on the exam that we can get an A in the class. However, it’s usually the reverse and we need an A on the exam for a C in the class.

8. We’re all trying to figure out how our classmates are doing and are offering support, but are really hoping that we’re the ones who come out on top.

9. We’re all avoiding the library because we’ve seen what it does to the best of us. We don’t want to go down the same road as those zombies who are seen drinking Starbucks at every hour of the day and looking half dead.

10. We know that we should go to the gym, but we can’t be bothered most of the time. Let’s be realistic, we would much rather be watching those Netflix shows that we have neglected the entire semester.

11. We’d much rather binge on Netflix than write that 10-page paper that’s due soon. Let’s be real—that paper will still be there at the eleventh hour when we are losing their minds, but catching up on our Netflix shows is a much more pressing matter.