You're sitting in your desk tapping your pen and pencil as the seconds, minutes, hours, tick away on the clock. The paper in front of you is more than a little intimidating. It has lots of questions on it, some of which you don't know the answer to. Your mind goes back to the night before, when you thought playing the new Animal Crossing app was more important than studying. What can you say? You needed the leaf tickets, and surely you knew everything that was going to be on the test.

Wrong.

Sound familiar?

While you should be studying, you're sitting on Facebook reading articles and watching videos of cute animals. You tell yourself that in ten, fifteen, thirty minutes, you'll get back to writing that paper that's due, or pick up that study guide again to memorize definitions. You'll get to it right after you watch the video with the baby goats, after you scroll through the posts your friends tagged you in. Because of course those are more important.

If you're looking for the motivation to close your browser and pick up a book, this is it. Finals are only a matter of days, my dear friend. A few in which you will contemplate dropping out entirely while hunched over your laptop searching how long a person can survive without sleep.

Maybe you send your prayers up to heaven, telling whomever might be listening that you'll never procrastinate again if you can pass your exam or get an A on your paper (naturally you make this promise at the end of every semester, but here we are again).

When finals are looming in the distance and get closer day by day, you know that you should be studying or, at the very least, you probably should not be killing brain cells by watching YouTube for hours on end. You know that you should be using your time to write essays and nail that one question or topic that you had trouble with so that it doesn't trip you up on the test.

But, self-control is a finicky thing. Ten minutes on Twitter turns into two hours, and you're left wondering just where the time went. One minute you're waking up, and by the next time you glance out of the window, the sky is dark and you've barely cracked a book.

Listen to me: It'll be painful, but it's for your own good. Put down your phone, pick up a pen, and study. Your GPA will thank you when it's over, and you can watch YouTube all you want after your last exam. In order to properly enjoy the holidays ahead, just study for a few days and rock the tests. You can do this, I believe in you.

Besides, the cute dog videos on Facebook will be there after the test. No need to worry.