It's getting to be that time of the year again, you know, the one where even though it literally feels like school just started, and we're still scrambling to remember all of the different homework deadlines for each of our classes...things starts to get real. That's right. It's midterm season.
How we know that midterms are upon us:
1. That friend that always wants to go out is suddenly pulling all-nighters at the library.
We all have that one friend that is always down no matter what day it is or where the party is. It could be a Sunday at midnight and she'll be ready in less than 15 minutes to head out the door with you. However, suddenly, something's changed. When midterms are upon us, this friend decides to drop everything she's doing to go and spend the night in the library, instead of chugging cheap beer at a party.
2. Finding somewhere to sit in the library is comparable to "The Hunger Games."
You see a big cluster of people heading towards the Love Library and that's when you know it: you're all about to fight to the death to get your own cubby with a plug close enough to the desk so you can charge your laptop. During this time of the year, suddenly finding a seat in the library becomes next to impossible. It doesn't matter if it's 11:30 on a Tuesday night, your favorite comfy chair is probably still occupied by someone who got there before you.
3. You suddenly regret not going to class, and all of your other poor life choices.
During Midterm season, you start to get real pissed at yourself for all of those Friday mornings you didn't make it to calc. Guess what? There are minimal homework assignments and your final grade rests on the fate of three midterms and a final, but you've only been to class once, and you spent most of the lecture on Twitter. You begin to frantically download the syllabus for each of your classes to figure out just how many chapters you need to read in order to pull off a B.
4. You try to get studying in at any time of the day.
Nothing else matters. You have a three-hour political science midterm on Thursday and even when you're at work you are scrambling to write down some notes. Have a few minutes to kill before Spanish? It's midterm season, so you best believe you're taking this time to review.
5. You promise yourself that you won't procrastinate this much for the next test.
Ah, the most obvious sign that midterms are upon us. You start to make a lot of silly promises to yourself that you know you'll never keep. For example, you're still going to wait until the night before to memorize all of your Econ terms for midterm number two. Stop lying to yourself. You're a procrastinator til death.
