The End Of The Semester As Told By The Cast Of 'Hamilton'
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The End Of The Semester As Told By The Cast Of 'Hamilton'

Just stay alive; that would be enough.

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The End Of The Semester As Told By The Cast Of 'Hamilton'
Mark Binelli via Rolling Stone

The end of the semester is a strange time for college students, full of stress from final projects and exams and excitement to finally get a break and go home—but mostly stress. Here are some things every college student experiences at the end of the semester as told by a musical about the most stressed-out guy in history: Alexander Hamilton.

1. In the last few weeks, professors decide to give a million assignments at once.

It's like this is fun for them.

2. You decide you're going to stay on top of them and do everything in a respectable amount of time.

You won't let them get you down. It's time to rise up.

3. But they just keep piling up, and you start to wonder if maybe college just isn't for you.

But hey, it's the thought that counts—right, A. Ham?

4. Even with all those assignments, your friends still manage to convince you to hang out instead of studying.

How can you say no to this?

5. You procrastinate until the night before and say a tearful goodbye to your GPA.

We need George Washington to teach us how to say goodbye.

6. When you run out of credible sources for your paper:

"These are wise words. Enterprising men quote 'em. Don't act surprised, you guys, 'cause I wrote 'em."

7. Then, you get your paper back and it's not as bad as you thought.

And you start to think maybe you can do this after all.

8. When you go home for Thanksgiving break, your family bombards you with questions about how school is going.

Bonus: And they ask why you still don't have a boyfriend.

9. You get so stressed that you accidentally sleep through class.

Your friends get quite a few "Can I look at your notes?" texts.

10. And when you do go to class, you're so tired you wish your professor would just stop.

I mean, I'm sure they're tired, too. Let's do us all a favor.

11. Then, finals week comes around and you start writing like you're running out of time, retreating and reading every treatise on the shelf.

And like Hamilton, you are non-stop.

12. You start taking your finals and your hard work starts paying off.

13. The semester finally comes to an end and goes down as a success.

"Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now."

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