1. Everyone is stressed
Everyone is a nightmare to deal with when they are stressed. Finals allow for a bunch of students that live together and some of which might be homesick to be stress all at the same time. Tension is strong and students are all running on coffee so it’s not really the happiest and friendliest week to see all the students.
2. It’s a semester’s worth of work condensed into a week
Students are being tested on what they learned back in September. This is fine if the course builds on itself meaning that you have to learn to walk before you can run. Although half of the time the teacher taught something that you have to relearn before the final because you haven’t used or seen this material in months. There is also the new material that the professor decided to through in the last class before the exam.
3. It's hard to find time to relax
When you have all the subjects you have to study for, write final papers for, or do group or individual projects for it is hard to find some down time. You don’t want to overstudy and be too stressed but when you aren’t studying and are watching Netflix you are afraid that you will regret not studying enough. The balance is difficult to find.
4. You lose study time by scheduling
You have to plan out when you are studying for what subject, when you are sleeping, what friends you will meet up with to study, where you are going to study, how you are going to fit holiday shopping into your schedule, and what time you are going to eat. You have to plan all of these things out so that you are able to get everything done in the little amount of time you have left and yes you have scheduled in time to cram.
5. It’s hard to look forward to the break when you still have so much to do
You keep thinking about the break being the light a the end of the tunnel but then you realize that there are still so many road blocks before you get there it is hard to end enjoy the fact that the end of the semester is near.
Even though finals week is the worst, we will make it through it and hopefully have a wonderful break celebrating the fact that we do not have to study during it. Good luck to everyone!
