Ah, finals week. What an interesting time of the year for college students, to say the least. All college students have different ways of managing the excessive studying during the week, but here are a few of the most popular methods:

1. The Night Owl

Quite a few people prefer this method of study during finals week. These people are totally cool with grabbing a few red bulls and cracking down for a long night of studying. If they are lucky, the might squeeze in an hour or two of sleep. A lot of people just study through the night though, and hope that it pays off during the test.

2. Rise and Shine

Once 9 p.m. rolls around for these people, it's time to pack up the materials and turn in for the night. The thing about these people, though, is that this isn't the end of the studying. Instead, they are willing and able to get up at the crack of dawn to finish whatever work needs to be done. I envy these people, because if I decide to go to bed and do it in the morning, I know that it won't be getting done at all.

3. Cramming mere hours before

This is the essentially the study version of "hit the panic button". A few hours before the test rolls around, you realize you actually don't know anything at all. These few hours of cramming are a blur of notes and old course materials, all in the hopes of merely passing the test.

4. Studying weeks in advance

The people who manage to start studying a few weeks before finals truly do have their lives together. This is a crazy time of the year, and to take the time to get study guides prepared before the week of is a massive feat in itself. Truly though, props to these people for setting themselves up for a much more manageable finals week than the rest of us.

5. The wing it method

Sometimes, by the time finals week rolls around, we are so drained that all we can muster up is the wing it method. In all of the studying that I have done in my life, I have attempted this method once and only once. In that one instance though, I managed to actually fail the test. A lucky few are able to successfully use this method though, generally in cases when they were able to retain enough information over the course of the semester.

There are so many ways to get through finals, and I am sure we have all seen someone attempting one of the methods mentioned above. Some may have more success than others, but in the end though, we all just do what we gotta do to get through the week!