It's mid-semester and just as things are starting to get into a routine, exams come to pull that rug out from beneath your feet. Maybe it's your freshman year, and your first college exams just gave you a big dose of reality — bitter, cough-syrupy reality. Maybe it's your senior year and you're realizing that you've spent the last three years of your life cycling in and out of getting enough sleep and eating right and never sleeping and living off of Pop Tarts and drip coffee. Even if you're somewhere in between, we've all been there. These vintage GIFs perfectly capture the journey through midterms:
When you decide it's time to start studying
And then you look at all the material
When you decide you could take a nap for a while
... But then wake up from that nap
When you decide to scrap your first draft
When you finally leave your room after studying for 12 straight hours
When you finally decide you should study on the quiet floor of the library
When the test date sneaks up on you
When you and all your friends walk to the exam room together
When you're halfway through a free-response and start to question yourself
Walking to your room after the exam
When you get your results back and you actually pulled of a decent score
Celebrating that you've made it ... at least until you have to do it again!
The good news about midterm exams is that you're not going through them alone. Everyone around you is going through or has been through the same thing and they're still alive! Take care of yourself during exams and you'll look back and be proud of making it!
