With finals week quickly approaching, I can already feel the stress building up. Some people master the art of procrastination, while others have been studying since the first day of class. No matter which one, the stress of exams will hit every student full force as the time gets closer.

1. The month before exams

It's the month before exams and you haven't even looked at your notes. Heck, you may have not been to class in two weeks and when people ask you what you're learning you simply shrug and laugh. "I have a whole month before finals" you tell yourself. You spend most of your days having fun and watching netlfix.

2. Two weeks before exams

You're still not too worried. You are starting to get your ducks in a row and getting the notes from all the classes you missed. You still don't start studying, but you begin to work a little harder.

3. The week before exams

You are at the library everyday trying to learn a semesters full of work into one week. You study for about 20 minutes and then reward yourself with an hour of social media. You ask all of your classmates to help you study but they don't know what they're doing either. You start getting worried as the week goes on.

4. The night before exams

You are full on panic mode. You have been at the library for 17 hours straight and don't remember the last time you slept. You have 300 papers scattered, and 7 books open around your desk at the library. You've cried a total of 6 times and you become hopeless.

5. The day of your first exam

You slept approximately 37 minutes and have downed 8 cups of coffee before 10 a.m. You have studied so much that you feel your head is going to explode and your hand is going to fall off. You have calculated down to the dot the exact percentage you need to keep an A (or B...or just pass) and you think you know enough to get by. You pray every 10 minutes until you are given your first exam.

6. During your first exam

This is it. This is the end. Everything you studied is not on the test. You memorized that one graph like the back of your hand and there was only one question on it. You stumble across a few questions you try to remember from reading your book 3 times. You promise yourself you will never do this to yourself again. You start dreaming about potential boxes you will live in when you become a hobo after failing this one exam.

7. As your exams go on..

You start becoming a master at creating the longest possible answer for short answer questions. You figure out what the material on the exam is actually asking halfway through your exam. You start getting your life together exam by exam.

8. After your exams are over

You finally did it. You made it. Barely. You run out of the exam room faster than you have ever run before. You throw all your papers in the recycling bin before you even make it home. You are so pumped school is over and you think about all the fun summer activities you're going to have the next three months.

9. Getting grades back

When you notice you and your best friend get the same grade on the exam (good or bad). You pat yourself on the back when you realize you did better than you thought you would.

Overall, you end up passing every class and you don't have to worry about the crazy life of what could have been if you would have failed that one exam.