Thanksgiving is in less than two weeks and everyone has their eye on turkey (and Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life!!!), while simultaneously trying to ignore the fact that finals are only one monthaway. You can't ignore the ever-growing pile of work you have before the semester is over; chances are you've already experienced some of the signs of what's coming. Don't worry, even Yale-graduate Rory Gilmore has been in your shoes, and we all know she turned out just fine.
1. Your caffeine intake is getting extreme
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Sleep is for the weak anyway.
2. When your professors try to finish their curriculum and teach you ten chapters in a few short weeks
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And there’s no chance they’re letting you out early for the rest of the semester
3. When you make plans to study, but choose to watch Netflix instead
Watching Breaking Bad counts as studying for Chemistry, right?
4. When you know you shouldn’t be replacing sleep with coffee, but you basically have no choice
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There just aren’t enough hours in the day!
5. When you look at your finals schedule and see you have a final on the last day, at the latest time
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There goes your plans of going home for the holidays early; and being the last of your friends to go home is the worst...who are you supposed to go out with after your last final?
6. When you make the mature decision to stay in and study rather than go out with your friends
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Cue the FOMO...
7. When you remind yourself of your goals and why you need to study in the first place
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Okay, time to get serious.
8. But then you look at your planner again
You’ve reached the sleep-deprived state of hysteria and think there’s no way you can possibly finish everything.
9. Yet, finals are getting closer and closer so you finally decide to sit down and study
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You haven’t opened the “required” textbook until right now.
10. You’ve reached the point where you need all your energy to drag yourself to class, never mind waking up early to get ready
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Makeup? I don’t have the time or energy for that.
11. When your roommate never seems to study and still goes out every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
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And you curse your past self for not taking two online classes like she did.
12. Finally, the semester is over, you and your GPA survived, but you’re too tired to be excited about any plans you have for winter break just yet
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Let me sleep for a week and I’ll get back to you.
So enjoy all that homemade food and family time, focus and study hard, and before you know it the semester will be over!
