It's officially that time of year. You know, the time where everyone is walking around with stuffy noses and watered eyes, bags under their eyes from lack of sleep and stress, and all of the places to study on campus are crammed full of students trying to study an entire semester's worth of information into one night of studying. The end of the semester is such a rollercoaster, much like the show, "Grey's Anatomy." So, here is the entire cast of "Grey's Anatomy" to better explain the end of a college semester.
When you are at your professor's office asking for extra credit opportunities after he already told the class "don't show up at my office the last week of school asking for extra credit!"
I mean, we have all been there. You see you have a 79.4 and you know that just a tenth of a point will (typically) automatically round your grade to an 80. So, you take a stroll to your professors office, bat your pretty eyelashes, and ask, no beg, for an assignment to help get the extra tenth of a point. You know good and well that he is probably going to say no, but you try your hardest anyways.
When people are gloating that they have "literally no finals."
Honestly, it is shocking at the amount of people that have told me that they don't have exams. I know that I would gladly give my final exams, group projects, and papers for those that don't have quite enough.
When you come back from spring break and your teachers welcome you with eight group projects and four tests all due in seven days.
When the bills are piling up, your semester grades are about to come out, your rent is due in 3 days, you need to buy groceries, and you only have $4.87 in your bank account.
Honestly, I ask myself this question a good four times a day.
When your professor writes "noticeable progress." on your final paper.
If your professor takes the time to basically tell you good job, you might as well frame it and hang it on your wall because chances of that ever happening again in college are slim to none.
When your professor decides to respectfully decline your plea for extra credit.
After waiting a week, 3 days, 6 hours, and 18 minutes, you got the email regarding your desperate cry for extra credit. You open the email with such excitement and hope, you just know you got this one in the bag. The email reads something along the lines of "Sorry, no. -sent from my iPhone."
When you are walking through campus and see dogs frolicking around, awaiting your love.
Your day may have been crappy, but when you see those dogs, you drop your bag, fall to your knees, and say hello to every single puppy available.
When the exam was way harder than you had originally thought.
When you actually have to check your pulse because you are pretty sure that test just took the life out of you.
When you check your grades and they aren't quite what you had told your parents.
Everybody makes mistakes.
When you open D2L and you see that red dot notification, but you don't remember submitting anything.
We have all been there.
When all of your exams are done, you have finished packing up your things, and you realize have officially completed the semester.
Cheers, y'all.
You survived the end of the semester and now it's summer. No grades, no 8 am classes or labs, no campus food. Nothing but you, the sun, and some R&R.
