Well, we made it through first semester and made it all the way to Christmas break. A full month off with no professors, tests, projects, midterms, or finals.
As your university started spamming your email again, and the days drew closer and closer to that day on your calendar marked "first day back," you could feel the anxiety of the spring semester approaching. The university bills and fees start rolling in, and you start looking up ISBNs for textbooks to buy, and you cry a little when you see your subtotal of it all (seriously, you could probably buy a cruise ship with all of the money you spend on college). When the day finally comes to go back to classes, you have to go to bed and wake up at a reasonable time, and you don't know what to do with your sleep-deprived self.
After a full month off, getting back into the swing of things for school is incredibly hard, but you know that you just have to power through it (and it really helps if you just keep reminding yourself how close spring break is). It seems like everything starts back at once, too. You'll go from laying around the house eating and watching Netflix without a care in the world, to classes, work, homework, meetings, practices, studying, trying to find time to sleep, and trying to make plans with friends. There just aren't enough hours in the day. The moment your planner starts to look like this
Summer is in our grasp, and we just have to make it through these next few trying months, and not let school get the best of us. During those moments when you think dropping out of school would be easier than finishing up the semester, just remind yourself that three months off is coming soon, and the harder you work now, the more money you'll make in the future. The all-night study sessions and mountains of work may seem awful now, but it'll all pay off in the end.