We've all done it. You know the drill. Finals, they're unavoidable, like death (and taxes if you're part of the middle-class). Here's a breakdown of what may happen. Let's get started.
1. Denial and Isolation:
Procrastination is actually a healthy habit in moderation. So don’t worry about that paper that’s worth half of your grade just yet. First thing’s first when getting ready for finals, it’s time to start binge watching all those shows you’ve been putting off while binge watching other shows all semester long.
Ignore your problems, because that’s how they go away, right?
2. Anger:
After you finish the season finale of that one show where all the cool stuff happens, you may want to look over the materials you’ve had all semester and realize that you still don’t understand it.
The professor hasn’t even gone over half of what you’re supposed to know. Seriously, who the heck thought it was a good idea to employ that guy and make him the teacher in the first place? What does he really know? You wonder why he even gave the assignments he did all semester. It was really just a bunch of busy work, wasn’t it? How is any of that going to help you in the real world?
They should be paying you to take this guy’s class, not the other way around.
3. Bargaining:
Your professor may say that he won’t curve the test or final paper and there will be no extra credit offered.
You may counter this idea by suggesting that the two of you could arm wrestle to decide whether or not those policies can change. If he refuses, perhaps you should try telling him that this will affect his score on Ratemyprofessor.com. Hey, if they can make threats about your grades, fair is fair, right?
4. Depression:
After you realize that you’d absolutely destroy your professor in any sort of physical competition and yet he refuses to allow you to challenge his stance on grading, you may sink into a depression and long for the old days. The old days you’re longing for and thinking about here are the caveman times, when you didn’t have to worry about finals, and if someone got in your way, you could legitimately just club them and not worry about them having any affect on your chances of getting into law school.
But now, thanks to the legal system that you wish to be a part of, there are laws in place preventing such things and you find yourself in a very ironic situation because of your contradictory feelings, don’t you?
5. Acceptance:
Eventually, you end up somehow getting everything done, last minute because that’s just how things seem to always get done. And miraculously it seems to work out just fine. Maybe you didn’t get all A’s like you said you would as part of your new year’s resolutions.
In fact, you didn’t really follow through on any of those, did you?
But you did better than you thought you would when you were stressed out over the past few weeks. And who knows you may just make it in the real world after all.
