Every college student experiences the semester slump. You don't feel like doing your work and want to just stay in bed all day. That essay, that would only take you a few hours, is about three weeks late. Do you really care? No. It's hard to get up and actually go to class in the mornings, and just being productive doesn't really happen. But nobody better describes the mid-semester slump than Schmidt from "New Girl," who is feeling the slump his entire life.
1. Coming back to school and realizing how much you have to do.
Maybe the mid-semester slump hit you before you left for spring break, and maybe you thought some time away from school would cure your slump. Unfortunately, you realize you were very, very wrong. Coming back to school and facing all the work you have to do puts you right back into your slump.
2. Thinking changing up your style may help your slump.
Even though switching up your look may seem like a good idea at the time, it usually ends in regret and not helping you get out of your slump.
3. When your friends, parents, roommate, etc call you out on feeling tired, lazy, and crying over the work you haven't done, all the time.
"My emotions are valid! Just let me live."
4. Wanting to celebrate the weekend, even though you got nothing done during the week.
Sure you might not have really completed all your assignments, or really went to all your classes, but it's the weekend! Time to celebrate surviving another week!
5. Actually handing in your assignments on time, or close to on time.
Completing your work, no matter how painful it was, always feels better in the end. When you have assignments and tests looming over you, it's like being followed by a dark cloud of work wherever you go.
6. Celebrating with your friends over finishing labs, tests and essays.
Instead of just partying for the weekend, you and your friends get to celebrate being productive college students. Cheers to the freakin' weekend — and finishing that lab report that was two weeks late.
7. Seeing high-schoolers complaining about their work-load on social media.
They don't know what real work is until they have five essays, three labs, four tests and social commitments to finish in the next week. Also, if you're very sleep deprived and decide to take a five minute nap you're suddenly failing seven classes although you're only taking four.
8. Riding the emotional rollercoaster all through the slump.
The mid-semester slump hits your emotions hard. It's like your hormones are constantly spiking and depressing. One minute you're fine and laughing with your friends, next you're crying over your food because dining hall meals are just so bad you can't even.
9. Wanting your friends to justify your lazy habits.
You really just need someone to tell you it's okay to binge watch "New Girl" all day. Although, deep down you know it's not okay, even though you're friend Nick tells you it's perfectly okay.
10. When a friend or relative who is not in school tries to sympathize with your pain.
Your parents may try to sympathize and show you they understand it's hard to be in school. Or they could comment about how back in their day they had to use a typewriter to write essays, so you really shouldn't be complaining. But did they have to find seven different "academic" internet articles for one essay or lab report? I didn't think so.
11. Realizing most of your peers are feeling the slump too, and you're all going a bit crazy because of it.
The mid-semester slump, and college in general, makes everybody do things that are a little crazy, but no one judges you for it because we are all crazy. In my astronomy class I watched a girl sit and listen to the lecture while wearing a snuggie and eating cereal, but I just thought it was a good idea.
12. Knowing that you only have about six weeks left of class, and the slump will soon be over.
Hello summer, goodbye school work. Only half a semester left.
