Something we all know too well is the uneasy feeling of knowing that this year is almost over, and for every student we have to stop and think, "have I done everything I wanted to do this school semester?", "am I living like a 20 something year old should?", "am I letting all my precious youth go to waste?!" (because face it we all have seen the early signs of wrinkles and the dreaded GREY HAIRS). And the last yet most stressful question, well scratch that more like a prayer that the beautiful 8 ounce 6 pound baby jesus will save our grades that are slowly drowning in a pool of our tears. So here is a few phases you will and probably already have experienced these next couple weeks:
We Start Off Carefree
The Morning Comes to Collect Our Souls
We Make It to Class (but only because our professor takes attendance, sorry mom)
We decide to be responsible and find out our grades but only to be stopped cold in our tracks
We realized we need to step it up ASAP
We reward ourselves for going to that 12:15 class in the middle of OUR nap time and turning in that online assignment on time during our favorite show
And in the middle of rewarding ourselves a feeling of acceptance washes over us
But inevitably we find ourselves in class but keeping the saying in the back of our head "D's get Degree's, right?" or "I can just marry rich."
But then our favorite time comes: FINALS WEEK, and we're all like...
We stay up late cramming the information we can get our student hands on (which consist of carpal tunnel from typing & a major loss of finger nails from the daily stress)
Then something magical happens once that week is over, we survive and actually are alive (after a lot of crying and Ben & Jerry's ice cream)
And we realize we won't have to be a professional hobo the rest of our life
So now we can finally relax and enjoy our Christmas break or what's left of it...
So...even though we put ourselves through a tremendous amount of stress every semester we always make it out with some dignity left, and eventually we will walk across that majestic stage and get the piece of paper and the reason we do this to ourselves and we vow to never again stay up till 5 in the morning drinking Starbucks double shots to study for an exam last second. So, next semester get back out there and start off strong
Who am I kidding we do the same thing every semester...good luck.
