Thanksgiving Break is most likely everyone’s favorite break during the fall semester. You get to go home and reminisce with all your high school friends. That diet you’ve been on for the past month goes out the window, and you get to eat until you put yourself into a food coma. There’s no rush on homework and you can just lie in bed and Netflix to your heart’s content. To me that sounds like an ideally wonderful break, and totally stress-free.
Little do we realize the moment we get back to school, life is not stress-free anymore. The anxiety and work all start to pile up along with the books on your desk. These two weeks are the homestretch: the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
1. Finals are in less than two weeks. Yes, that’s right. Less than two weeks.
This is not the time to panic, this when you start to soak in the rest of the semester and run with it.
2. The pressure of learning while starting to study for your final exams starts to get to you.
You start to realize that 24 hours in a day just may not be enough
3. Right when you get back, you’ll make a list of all your assignments, and the low key anxiety starts to settle in.
4. You try to have a social life, but you then realize how much work you actually have.
With school, sleep, working out, and trying to throw a social life in with finals right around the corner, it’s time to pick a few because all four may not be possible.
5. You start to look over your syllabi and start to question if you even retained any information from the semester?
It happens to the best of us. Looking back through your notes, it's almost as if everything that was taught back in September feels like years ago.
6. You end up giving yourself a daily pep-talk telling yourself you can do it.
It's the little pep-talks we give ourselves that become the most important part of the home stretch. Your trip home for Christmas is right around the corner, and you just need to make it through two weeks of countless sleepless nights and days with excessive amounts of caffeine to keep you from falling asleep in the library.
Just remember, You can do it. And we're all in this together.
