Well, gang. We've made it. We're halfway finished with our fall semester.

This is the part of the semester where you start becoming sick and tired of everything. Some days you wake up, look at your reflection in the mirror, and you think, "How on earth am I doing this whole college thing?"

But you're the captain of this ship. Mid-semester can bring about some fierce waters, but let's take a break by looking at Jack Sparrow for a little sympathy, shall we?

During the mid-semester slump, you may feel like work and commitments just won't leave you alone... no matter how fast you run.

You try to act like it's no big deal. You tell your professors:

When really you sit through class like:

The truth is, you just get by in class by copying what everyone else does.

So when you're professor assigns you a huge paper or tells you of an upcoming exam, your reaction is to:

And it turns out he didn't even have it in the syllabus! He just decided to add it in like it was no big deal.

But it gets worse. You look in your planner only to find that you have another exam and paper due on the same day, which feels like:

This feeling of anxiety happens at least once a day.

And other things in your life aren't going too well, either:

But, just remember that even though enemies may be firing at your ship:

You know you'll go down in style.