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The Kind of Snapchats and Texts You Get During Finals Week

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The Kind of Snapchats and Texts You Get During Finals Week

Finals week (and the days leading up to it), is a trying time for college students everywhere. Sleep schedules get messed up, you start spending all of your money on coffee, Nexflix is battling for your attention, and delirium inevitably starts kicking in. You can usually tell how distressed your friends are, by the content of the strange text messages and Snapchats they begin to send to you. As everyone around you spirals out of control, the messages you are receiving begin to get weirder and weirder, as your friends search for distractions from studying. Comprehending the material you are trying to study, turns borderline impossible, and everything becomes more fun than studying.


When finals are coming up, students will find any excuse not to study. They begin watching new television series, texting each other random things, and trying to convince themselves they have plenty of time in the future to study.

Once students begin studying, they get hopped up on coffee, and use it as a crutch. They worship it like the false idol that it is, and feel the need to show all of their friends how much they are drinking.

The more coffee they drink the crazier they become. It can actually make them too hyper to study, but it certainly makes them more fun to be around, and their messages grow out of control.


Everything becomes funny to them, because they are so sleep deprived and desperate for stimulation.

As finals get closer, and they realize how much time they've wasted, they begin praying for A's – instead of just actually studying.

Next comes the stage of overconfidence. Students begin to hope that the test will just be ridiculously easy, or curved. When their friends ask if they are prepared, they often come off as a little too optimistic:

The little things in life become great joys. Desperate students are thankful for every break they get, and food becomes their best friend.



After giving themselves dozens of breaks from studying, they realize the trouble they are in. With finals on the horizon students turn to faith (a faith they will forget when they are celebrating surviving finals).

By the end of the adventure, many students barely care about how they even did on their finals. Whether they feel like they aced everything or not, they are just happy to have made it out alive. The bottom line is: they survived finals week, and they are ready to celebrate.





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