Our entire lives are not determined by mere seconds, minutes, and hours spread out within our lifetime. Those few hours it takes to fill out a college application. Those long six hours it takes to finish the SAT. Those twenty minute interviews that determine whether or not you sold yourself enough to be worthy of the job. Those few extra hours you wish you had spent studying instead of procrastinating.

All those scenarios have something in common: they only matter if you give them the power to matter. Our lives are not merely defined by small portions of our lives. they are defined as little moments that make up a whole. Our lives don’t come to an end because we didn’t get the job. We don’t cease to exist because we failed a test. We don’t matter less because we didn’t get into the college we wanted to go to.

As long as you tried, it counts as an achievement. How do you know you won’t get that scholarship if you don’t even fill it out? How do you know you won’t get anything in life if you don’t put effort into it?

So, to apply this to pretty much any college student going through finals right now, your life is not determined by a grade you got in one class. You will not float off into oblivion where no one will remember you because you didn’t ace a test for a class that—in the long-run—does not define you as a person or your ability to succeed in the future.

It’s okay to spend some time to yourself not cramming for six finals. It’s okay to take a break and say goodbye to your friends. It’s okay not to worry.