Finals,
For months I have sat in classrooms either trying to stay awake during boring lectures or just simply passing the class, and then you show up to wreak havoc on my life. I understand you here because the teachers need a final grade but the lack of sleep and stress you cause is detrimental to our testing. College kids are already sleep deprived and wanting to go home where they don't have to be adults like they do at college. Personally, if I have to be stressed about you to the point of a mental breakdown there is something wrong, and no, I am not a child, and yes, I can handle stress but not the stress you give.
Let's face it, you are the worst part of my college experience. For the next week, I will spend all my free time in the library studying for exams that are way too complicated and drowning my tears in coffee or possibly a lot of Dr.Pepper. I will fall asleep studying and forget to eat because I am too stressed to remember the dining hall hours. When I show up for my exams, I'll look like a repulsive mess because I slept through breakfast and didn't care to put on make-up. Chances are after I'm done with the exam, I will cry and then study till my next exam. Possibly in this week I will sleep. The teachers will question my attire and I probably won't be happy due to the lack of sleep. My room-mate will be cranky and we probably won't see each other because either one of us is:
a.) sleeping and possibly have fallen asleep in the shower.
b.) eating and drowning our sorrows in large cups of coffee and hot cocoa because one of us hates coffee (not me!).
c.) studying somewhere quiet or with friends from class so we don't fail out of college our first semester.
My peers will likely do the same throughout the week, but the teachers will not stress like we will. You cause all of us pain and emotional distress. But what you won't realize is that as soon as we are done with you whether pass or fail, we will throw our papers away and throw the middle finger up to you, oh dear finals week.
So to you finals week, I will toast my Dr. Pepper when I drive home and not have to come back to stress about you. Until spring semester, adieu!
Sincerely,
College students who hate finals and wish they didn't cause us emotional pain and damage who also hate that finals can make them fail a class.
