When finals are in full swing, we are stressed, tired, hungry and emotionally drained. We move into the library and proceed to have at least one mental breakdown per day -- that always includes tears. But one of the most important tasks while studiously working at the library is the pre-final grade calculating. In fact, if we focused as much energy into actually studying the material as we do calculating how low of a grade we can get on the final, we might be in good shape. But nonetheless, we still do. We employ some mad calculator skills, double and triple checking, in order to make ourselves either feel better about finals or to make us even more unstably stressed than we already are. It’s an important part of the process

You start out just kind of looking vaguely at all of the grades together to get a feel for where you’re at.

Then, you get that one teacher who is too lazy to put all of the grades up and promptly plot their demise.

You start getting down to the actual computing and feel like a mad scientist figuring out the secrets of the world.

There’s the one class that you literally have a 89.99 percent in.

There’s the super-easy elective that came in so clutch for that GPA.

And then after about an hour of figuring out how low you can get on each final, you decide to go get more coffee and stop by your friend’s table. I mean, you have all night to study, right?

Finals, man.