The Truth About Finals Week
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The Truth About Finals Week

As if summer school wasn't bad enough, now you have to survive a week of finals...

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The Truth About Finals Week
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Finals week is finally upon us. You've been preparing all summer for this one week, hoping that your grade won't plummet based on your final exams. It seems like just yesterday that you started summer semester; excited, nervous, and mostly annoyed that you were spending your summer sitting in a classroom instead of somewhere on a beach. While you woke up early each day to sit in a classroom getting your brain jammed full of information, your friends were posting Snapchat stories from late-night shenanigans and Instagram pictures from their vacations. Even though you've had a boring summer, you've learned a lot. It's almost over. But first, you have to get through finals week. Time to get serious and hate your life just a little bit more.

You don't know stress until you experience finals week. You check your grade a million times, hoping that your teacher will magically put in some extra credit points. You worry that you aren't studying enough. You second guess yourself. You start stressing about how stressed you are. And to make the stress even worse...

You're pretty sure teachers LOVE scheduling tests on the same day. Why is this even allowed? As if you weren't already stressed enough, now you have to try to remember everything that you learned during the whole semester in not only one, but two (or three) classes! Can a brain even hold that much information?

Before starting classes, you had a bedtime of 9:30. You would wake up refreshed and only drank coffee because it tasted good. But now, you don't even know what 8 hours of sleep is. You spend more time studying than sleeping, and there's never enough time in the day to take a nap. Coffee is now a vital part of your life. You're now a pro at running off of 3 hours of sleep (even though you look like a zombie and are a bit jittery from all the coffee you drank).

Because you never get enough sleep, you can't function enough in the mornings to put on matching clothes, and there's no point in putting makeup on because there's not enough concealer in the world to cover up the bags under your eyes. The good thing is that your classmates all look the same way you do, so nobody will judge you...unless you go out in public.

Even though you're stressed, exhausted and your hair is permanently in a messy bun, just know that you can do this. It may take an extra cup of coffee and one less hour of sleep, but you can conquer finals week. Stay organized, stay motivated and stay awesome. And if you need a little something to boost your confidence, just look at this picture of Ryan Gosling.


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