Nothing is more stressful than the end of the semester. Your professors seem to think you are only taking three credit hours instead of the 18 you are enrolled in and decide to pile on the work. You're trying to manage the four papers you have to write, all while your phone is being blasted by those group project members that decided to wait until the night before the presentation was due to meet. You're wondering if it is worth it to leave the library for one more cup up coffee, or consider staying because you know that if you leave you may never come back. To help remind you that you are not alone in this struggle, here are the stages of going through finals as told by Leslie Knope.
1. The end of the semester is near and you're hyping yourself up for the challenge.
You have made a study playlist, and you have convinced yourself that you will ace everything.
2. The papers are flowing, and you wonder why anyone else is even stressing about finals.
This is a piece of cake, I am a genius and my professors will be astonished at the amazing work and obviously give me and A.
3. Nothing is going to stop you now.
You have it all planned out—you will be done with everything before you know it and will be off to celebrate summer.
4. You're so excited you actually go to office hours to show your professor your work. And you find out it's all wrong.
You basically wrote the opposite of what you needed to write, and now your confidence is going down the drain as you leave the office ashamed.
5. Your plan is ruined, the one thing you had finished is in the trash, and you realize you have still have a pile of other projects you haven't even looked at.
You're reworking the plan in your head as you contemplate where you went wrong.
6. Sitting in the library for the seventh hour straight, you begin to wonder what is even real.
Clearly you must be dreaming this; you can't actually have this much work that needs to be done in one day.
7. You go to your class review session, and nothing seems to make sense.
That study guide that your cousin gave you had none of this on it.
8. People are asking you how you are going to get everything finished, and you're not having it.
Yes, I realize I have three papers due at 8 a.m. tomorrow, and no, I cannot tell you how I will get them all finished.
9. Your roommate thinks now is a good time to tell you you should have spent less time binge-watching netflix.
You needed to finish the last season of "Parks and Rec." That is not even a question.
10. Somehow, you need to learn everything about chemistry in one night, and you lose your mind.
You begin to wonder why you did not pick an easier major.
11. You wonder if you're even still functioning properly enough to take your test in the morning.
Just one more cup of coffee should do it.
12. When you finish a final, you walk out of the room proud to never have to see that professor again.
You taught me a lot, but your class gave me nightmares. Goodbye.
13. You realize you can actually see the light at the end of the tunnel and get a little excited.
You only have one more final, and it's your easy A art class you have a 99.9 in just from showing up.
14. In the end, you pass all your finals and reward yourself for another semester well done.
Treat yo'self!
