Even though the semester isn't done yet, my brain is. The sun is out, the birds are chirping, the temperature is rising and you're still finishing up the semester. You're sitting in the library studying the day away and stressing out about every tiny thing that happens. While all your other friends are home for the summer and planning which concerts to go to, you're planning when to have your mental breakdown for that day. You've checked out. Honestly you have probably been checked out this entire year but the final weeks hit you like a brick. Here's how you know you have mentally checked out of the semester:
1) When studying in the library you end up watching Facebook videos without even realizing.
You walk into the library, plug in your laptop, pull out your books and have every intention to start doing your work but then you get a text. Before you know it you're on Facebook watching videos of cats who are afraid of cucumbers.
2) You go to the library to see who goes to the library.
You walk into the library and see your friends. You obviously have to sit with them. And then you all start gossiping about who came with who and who is sitting with who.
3) Your "study breaks" end up being hours long.
You've been studying for a straight 30 minutes without even touching your phone...that calls for a study break! It starts by texting and snapchatting people back. Then it turns into checking every social media possible. Then it turns into playing Temple Run. Then you decide that all your hard work calls for a Taco Bell run. Three hours later you start studying again.
4) You don't remember the last time you had a good night of sleep.
You are up until one in the morning regularly studying and writing papers and your alarm goes off at seven. College students do not know what sleep is.
5) You spend more time in the library than you do in your dorm room, might as well just move your bed there.
The library is a second home to you. You get pissed when someone is sitting at "your" table or when someone is being loud even though you are just as guilty for being loud half the time. You have fallen asleep there or come close many times.
6) You only get dressed up for your presentations but as soon as they're done you change right back into sweatpants and a t-shirt.
You put on that dress or those khakis for your presentation and then as soon as it's over, you walk right back to your dorm and throw on sweatpants and a t-shirt. People ask why you changed because you looked "so cute" and you're response is "I just can't."
7) Seeing a dog on campus becomes the highlight of your semester.
There's nothing better than a little animal therapy. Whenever you see a dog on campus you get excited and have to go pet it. The creepiest looking man in the world could walk on campus with a dog and have everyone stopping to pet it and play with it.
8) You started packing weeks ago.
You are so ready to go home. Classes end in two weeks and you have already started packing. You are taking things off the walls and packing up all your clothes that you hardly even wore this semester because the idea of going home soon is so exciting. Then you have to unpack some stuff because you realize you still need it.
All you can think about is studying and how much you have to do. The end of the semester is approaching and your beyond stressed. As much as you want to go home, you wish time would slow down a little because you need more time to study. By the end of each day, you realize you have only eaten a bag of goldfish and three large coffees.
10) Having at least two mental breakdowns per week.
You and your friends are getting ready for bed and messing around. You start laughing at a joke and then the funny joke turns into you crying uncontrollably and you don't know why. This is what finals week feels like.





























