The week that we all fear the most is coming. There's no escaping it; you can run, but you can't hide. This is the one week a year that I feel my need for coffee is on the nearly impossibly high level of the one and only, Lorelai Gilmore.

During finals week, we are all Gilmores.

1) Thinking that you're going to start studying and getting your materials together months in advance this time.

2) Realizing that finals week snuck up on you as it always does.

3) Trying to decide if you're going to have one last night down town with your friends before you enter finals-Hell.

4) DEFINITELY deciding to get wasted on your last night of freedom.

5) When you realize that finals week is officially here.

6) Opening your book for the first time all semester the week before your final and realizing you're totally screwed.

7) Accepting that this week all of your money will be spent on coffee.

8) Sitting down to actually study for the first time.

9) Getting more coffee.

10) Realizing just how screwed you really are.

11) When your friends come to visit you at the library and meet the you that comes out when you are running on two hours of sleep, 5 coffees, and no food.

12) When you just want your friends to leave so that you can actually get work done.

13) When they finally leave at 2am (weak) so you go and get more coffee for your impending all nighter.

14) Finally going completely delirious after 23 hours in the library staring at your Quizlet.

15) But you know the perfect fix for this situation- MORE COFFEE.

16) When your brain physically starts to hurt from cramming a semester worth of information into it in one night.

17) This headache may be caused by dehydration and overconsumption of caffeine, but you are helpless; you NEED coffee.

18) Planning your funeral because you doubt you will even live through finals week; honestly, death seems like a pretty good option to the starving and sleep deprived shell of your former self.

19) Praying that the world will come to an end before you have to face your first final.

20) When you begin to question if you really need a college degree or if you can live for the rest of your life on a minimum wage salary.

21) Reflecting back on your college career because you are convinced that it will come to an end after you fail all of your finals.

22) Resorting to bribing your professor in anyway possible.

23) If bribery fails- flattery is always an option.

24) Needing even more coffee to actually face your finals.

25) Desperately trying to get yourself to that first final as every fiber of your being tries to hold you back.

26) As you walk into your final, your anxiety reaches it's peak and you wonder what you can take to get through the final without 1000 panic attacks. (And possibly a heart attack- it could happen!)

27) How you feel when you sign the line that promises that you wont cheat on your final (even though Universities have made it virtually impossible by creating 10 versions of each exam).

28) Realizing that the only answer you know on your final is your name.

29) In reality, though, you're not 100% sure that you know your name.

30) Having the LAST final time slot and having to keep studying even though everyone else is already partying or back home.

31) Walking out of your last final and heading home.

32) Finding out your final grades over Christmas break.