We're only a few weeks deep into the spring semester, and I don't know about all of you, but I already feel the heat. The stress of upcoming exams and assignments is weighing down on our shoulders, and just as we proudly accomplish one task, another quickly arises. Once Monday morning comes around, we already begin our countdown to the weekend's socials and day-longs and it feels like an eternity as we patiently wait. With all of that being said, I know that these 12 stages of school this semester will relate to you as much as they do to me right now:

Stage 1: When your professor explains something in class and it sounds like a foreign language.

Stage 2: After looking at your calendar, you realize you are about to spend the next two weeks in the library and nowhere else.

Stage 3: You then proceed to complain to your friends and family about it, hoping that they will somehow make you feel better.

Stage 4: And that is when you realize that you are completely and wholeheartedly lost in each and every one of your classes.

Stage 5: So you promise yourself that you will get a head start on everything tomorrow (even though you should start today).

Stage 6: On the day you promised yourself you would be productive and crack down on your studies, your professors in two of your classes give pop quizzes before you study.

Stage 7: Even though you think they should be happy that you even came to class.

Stage 8: And then you start freaking out about life in general.

Stage 9: So you throw in the towel for a little and plan a night out with your friends.

Stage 10: Because what's so bad about having fun for a couple of hours?

Stage 11: But a couple of hours turns into the entire night, and you end up missing your 8 a.m. class the next day.

Stage 12: So you pretty much feel like a failure.

Stage 13: And with all of that being said...