It's finals week. At this point, I've binge watched the first four seasons of "The Office" in nine days and have been as unproductive as ever. Tensions are high, motivation is low. Struggling with understanding the stages of finals week? Let the crew at Dunder Mifflin do the work for you.
Stage 1: Denial
You look at your planner and realize all of the work you have to get finished, and you just...
Stage 2: Grade Computations
So you sit down to start studying and instead decide that a much better way to spend your time is to calculate what grades you need to pass. And then you realize it's bad either way, and you may have to move to Alaska to hide your GPA from your family.
Stage 3: Stress-Eating
You've downed eight family-sized bags of Doritos, six sleeves of double-stuffed Oreos, and two pints of Ben & Jerry's before you even know what hit you.
Stage 4: You Gain New Personalities
After sitting down to attempt to be productive, first you're happy, and then you're sad, and then you're eating 14 sleeves of Pop-Tarts and blaming it on your roommate. Your friends have probably named you something else by now and are likely hiding their fragile objects in case you have one of your outbursts and attempt to throw them across the room (again).
Stage 5: You Actually Study.
Hard. Really hard. And you probably cry a little. (Or a lot.)
Stage 6: Things Get Rough.
At this point, you're sleep deprived, moody, and cracking up at all of those new Snapchat filters, doing everything in your power to stay sane...(and probably failing.)
Stage 7: Prayers To The Lord
You're knee-deep and pumping through essays and chapter reviews like it's your day job. At this point, you're singing "Jesus Take The Wheel" and just praying it all doesn't come crashing down on your head.
Stage 8: Pre-Exams
This is it. The hours and minutes and seconds you've spent preparing have all led up to this. So you put on a smile and pretend you're not dying a little (or a lot) and you keep on keepin' on, walking into your first exam with the best game face you can muster.
Stage 9: During The Exam
You look down at question one, and you're like..
Stage 10: Post-Exam
You walk out and potentially shed a tear for your incoming GPA, but the important thing is, it's done. One word: Bliss
Stage 11: The Realization
Then you realize...it's all over. Another semester of school is in the books. And as excited as you are for the next one, you just can't help but be super happy to go home and see your friends and watch Netflix for 14 hours a day.
