It’s about that time again, eight weeks out from finals and the steady decline of focus begins. When everything is more interesting than finishing your statistics homework and you are already deciding that you will not be getting up for that 9:00 a.m. class tomorrow. We’ve all been here and we all will most likely be here again in the fall. Here are the 10 most relatable moments of the 8 week stretch.
1. What is due?
That moment of fear when you have four classes and no sense of deadline. How many assignments could possibly be due in a five day school week? As Lindsay Lohan would say, “the limit does not exist.”
2. How many classes have I skipped?
No one really wants to know the answer because if you really start tallying, it starts to look like a prisoner’s cell wall.
3. What did the syllabus say about late work?
Due dates are more of a suggestion right?
4. What does a withdrawal mean?
A “W” is when a student no longer wants to attend a class yet cannot get a refund back because that deadline is way passed. You receive a W as a grade, which does not factor in with your overall GPA. “W” stands for worth it.
5. I wonder if anyone gets this.
Looking around the room wondering if you’re the only idiot who still doesn’t see why X=2 and really hoping this does not come up in a real world situation.
6. Why did I sign up for this class?
I’m not going to be an astronomer, why the heck did I sign up for this crap? File this under: “Some Ragrets.”
7. How did I get this far behind?
I swear I was only sick for like three days, and hungover for two, and busy for five, and only procrastinated like twice. Of course there are better things I could be doing but I'm not, so why does my to-do list take up half my notebook?
8. I’m never taking morning classes again
Every semester I think I can handle it and every semester I am faced with the truth that I have no will power.
9. I’m never taking online classes again
Can anyone explain to me why someone wouldn’t want to take a class where they only had to open their computer? Maybe because that person has a problem with switching to Pinterest instead of doing her labs.
10. I can do this!
No matter what you’re thinking right now, you’re going to finish these 8 weeks. Just as long as you log off Facebook and into your Blackboard right now.
