Did your midterms not turn out quite as well as you expected them to? Did that all-nighter you pulled to study for your back-to-back exams leave you in a rut you haven't been able to dig out of yet? Are all the reports and papers you have left to write piling up in a stack taller than the computer monitor you're using to read this? It sucks, but there is a bright side to all of the pain you are currently enduring.

You have about two months left before finals. No, that isn't meant to scare you at all. Maybe make you a little better at getting prepared this one last time, but I'm not trying to scare you. You're almost done with your undergraduate experience, and I'm absolutely jealous of you. I still have one more year before I can creep my way across the stage for my diploma cover, but you'll be doing just that in a matter of weeks.

I understand how it feels like the end is so near and yet so far. It feels like something is going to happen and prevent you from graduating come May. I've got news for you, though. You won't fail to make it to the end. Look at all that you've managed to accomplish so far. You breezed through your freshman year while classes still somewhat resembled what you expected and remembered from high school. Sure, your grades might not have been as high as they were when you came to college, but you still made it.

You made it through your sophomore level classes a little less gracefully than you did the ones from your freshman year, but who cares? You squeezed through that tough-as-nails lab, slipped through the class with the professor everyone told you to dread, and picked up some extracurricular stuff on the side. This helped you transition into your junior year at college and the newfound challenge of class and even more campus involvement. You've struggled your way through some of the hardest classes you would ever take and made grades better than you had hoped for.

And now, you're a senior. Fourth or fifth year doesn't really matter; you've made it to the homestretch. You've acquired all of these new life skills that all the stress of college has tempered you with. You've made it this far, so why are you faltering? Keep going you beautiful human being. Keep up the good fight and finish strong. We're all rooting for you!