There are three tests and one essay due in the course of the next 48 hours. There are two out of six pages written for that essay, and only one of the tests has been prepared for. Welcome to Mid-Terms.

Around the beginning of October, school institutions decide that it is a good idea to ascertain how students are performing in each of their classes. What better way to do that than impose crippling stress and anxiety upon them by having everything occur at the same time? I am forever grateful for this week of school. Honestly, it is my second favorite week of the semester. My favorite is by far Finals Week. Oh glorious first week of December!

Seriously, though. There is nothing like having all of these assignments due that makes me less motivated to do my school.

I sit down to fill out a study guide and my mind turns to food.

I open a search engine to begin my research for that essay and all I can think about is what I’m going to do once I’m no longer studying.

I begin studying and suddenly I’m three hours deep into BuzzFeed and watching how people react to tasting different kinds of foreign alcohol.

Procrastination at its finest.

I have two tests tomorrow. Two tests. And I thought that this would be the perfect moment to sit on my computer and tell you all about how I want to be doing anything other than preparing myself for those two tests.

I have worked on them. And I do think that I’ll do well. But I don’t think that the twinge in my stomach is going to be gone until approximately twenty-four hours from now when I walk out of the classroom at the end of my day.

In this week alone I’ve gotten eighteen hours of sleep, drank close to a million cups of coffee, mastered the knowledge of Aristotle and his thoughts on Metaphysics, tried my first shot of espresso (one word: excitement), watched seven hours worth of Netflix, and memorized the soundtrack of “The Prince of Egypt” word for word. I’ve also taken a quiz that told, out of all of the Disney Princesses, I am Ariel. I’ve also dived deep into all of the information contained in my other classes.

I may not get a lot done in school in a timely manner when it comes to Mid-Terms, but I do get a lot done. I study as much as I possibly can without my brain turning to jelly, and I try many things I wouldn’t have if it wasn’t Mid-Terms week.

Also, if you have nothing better to do, you can ignore the fact that you have to study for Mid-Terms by google searching memes about not studying for Mid-Terms. Excuse me, I have to go cry now.