It's that time of year where the sun is out and the days are longer and all I want to do is tan and go to the beach with friends. The problem with it finally getting warmer and spring fever being at its peak, it falls at the same time as finals.

Let's face it, some of us view finals as another test and we only need one maybe two days of studying for each final, but once we finally sit in that lecture hall with the blue books we know that maybe we should have tried a little bit harder.

Tanning and hanging out in the Court of Carolina is all anyone ever wants to do during the warmer days, but this is the time of year where professors pile on work and assume that the only class you're taking is theirs. You want to complete the work but you also want to go to concerts and the beach with your friends. You keep telling yourself you'll read tomorrow, you'll write that paper while you tan or my personal favorite, you'll wake up early and start the assignment.

I have no motivation and therefore nothing seems to get done until 10 minutes before the deadline. I would have thought I would get my life together when I procrastinate over and over again but I guess in my mind it seems to be working just fine.

I know from personal experience that cramming is only so helpful when you're going on the fourth test in four days and you're not even sure when you ate or slept last. The stress of finals for me almost makes me want to give up and not do anything at all and that's where my lack of motivation really puts me in a tough place. I learned quickly that the worst thing you can do is lack sleep, because that last test will be the hardest one to get through. I remember taking a calculus exam at 8 a.m after 3 days of consecutive tests and actually falling asleep during the exam and waking up with 30 minutes left and still only on the first problem set. Let's just say the exam didn't go to smoothly and my GPA reflects it.

Taking all that into consideration though I still have no motivation but I'm so stressed out about my grades and finals and how my parents tell me I'm not coming back to college at the first sign of a C. Yet all the stress from the end of the semester has just made it impossible to concentrate and get anything done. So let finals season begin and the high of caffeine rule our lives for the next month, all in hopes of pulling out that A in a class we may or may not have a clue of what's going on.

Good Luck.