The days are winding down, the semester is drawing to a close, and you have a million things you needed to get done by…yesterday. The final stretch of the semester is the worst emotionally, physically, and mentally. You’ve cried more in your college years than you did when you were kid, you’ve eaten too many pizza rolls and don’t even know how to spell “gym” anymore, let alone go to one, and you’ve convinced yourself you will fail all of your classes. But, you’ve convinced yourself it’s OK because if you drop out, you can buy all the puppies in your town and they’ll provide you with more comfort than a college diploma. College is already stressful, but at the end of the semester, things can get out of hand.

Your breakdowns come out of nowhere and can last for an hour or for mere seconds.

You have a stack of homework to do, projects to complete, and tests to study for, but you have no idea where to start.

Coffee breaks are more frequent and definitely a mandatory part of getting through the rest of the semester alive.

You experience that moment of combined determination and motivation and become tremendously productive.

When you forget how to spell the most basic words because you've been up for hours, and your mind is all jumbled and overloaded, and you’re so upset with yourself for dropping your pencil that your only reaction is:

You now attend every class wearing some variation of sweatshirts and sweatpants.

Then someone points out that you used to dress nice and do your hair and make up for class.

When you aren’t studying, you are either crying, screaming, or planning for an alternate future—one that does not require a college degree.

There’s always that one friend who convinces you to go out and then in the middle of hanging out, you remember all the stuff you need to get done in the next couple weeks.

You’ve done the math and figured out the absolute lowest score you could get on the final and still pass the class.

You and your friends think it's a great idea to make a study group to help each other learn the material...until you realize no one actually knows anything.

You and your friends have sat around and wondered what you're all going to go after college, which makes you realize that you have no clue.

And that conversation makes you stressed and nervous, and you're suddenly sure that you will never succeed in life if you don't have a job lined up after college, and you can already see the downward spiral of your life.

You walk out of your last final like:

And, when your family asks you how the semester went, you proudly say:

If you haven't already started the countdown to the last day of the semester, now is the time.