It's almost spring break for college students around the country, but there's still one thing standing between us and the end of the quarter, and that's midterms. Preparing for midterms involves a roller coaster of emotions, late nights, and lots of caffeine. Since it basically feels like you're fending off an alien invasion or searching for your long-lost presumed dead best friend, who better to illustrate the struggle of midterms week than some of our favorite superheroes?
When you see the stack of textbooks you have to review at the beginning of the week
Always so full of confidence at the starting gate. Just wait until a few hours from now when the lines of your chemistry textbook start blurring together.
When your prof tells you how many pages your midterm paper has to be
Depending on what your major is, this translates to either, "How can I possibly wring eight pages out of this topic?" or, "How on earth do you expect me to cram this into ten pages?"
When you're in a class that your older sibling took and aced
WE CAN'T ALL BE SURGEONS YOU KNOW.
When you're going over major players in your field with a friend
Why did so many of the people we study in lit classes have a substance abuse problem?
When you're at hour six of your first late night study session
I think I missed Spanish conjugations in the imperfect. And the preterite. And that other tense. Can we go back?
When you get offered extra credit at the end of the quarter
But then you realize that said extra credit involves yet more research and another paper
When you're on your seventh cup of coffee during a cram session
Feel the power. And the jitters.
When you have to get food at 2 a.m. to keep yourself awake
Funny how this tastes so much better after midnight.
When you have a middle of the night dance party to keep yourself awake
Only Groot can make this dance move look cool.
When you have to let out your midterm frustration somehow
Mid terms rage is a lot like road rage, but spurred on by textbooks.
When you upgrade from caffeine to energy drinks
Coffee only works for so long.
When your professor says you should have taken better notes to study
Lessons for next semester, I guess?
When you think you're finished and start wondering what assignment you've missed
There has to be something else. There's never not something else.
When you remember that one paper that you totally forgot about
No explanation needed.
When you're about to take the test
Time to bleed information all over that scantron. You got this.
And finally, when you finish your last test.
