You're back at your apartment after a week away on the trip of a lifetime when you suddenly remember everything you avoided over the last seven days. Now with your backpack staring at you and all of your homework and responsibilities glaring at you, it's time to accept that you are not on spring break anymore. Here are the five stages of the spring break breakup.
1. Denial.
You ignored all of the homework and studying that needed to be finished over spring break, what's a couple of more days? I mean who cares if you have three midterms and a paper due, you're still lying on a sunny beach somewhere in Mexico.
2. Anger.
I mean what kind of person sets due dates for the week after spring break? Those professors knew no one was going to do them, and now you're ending your break at the library frantically trying to finish a full week's worth of work in one night. Go ahead and be irrationally angry at your professors, they deserve it.
3. Bargaining.
At this stage, you've begun to wonder just what it is that will make your professors fold. Is it money? Is it food? Whatever it is you'll figure out a way to pay them off as long you get that extension on your 10-page single-spaced essay.
4. Depression.
This stage hits you hard. You've realized you can't ignore the end anymore, and no amount of begging will change your professor's mind. However you still refuse to accept that spring break has come to an end, so you slip into a depression as you cry over your super-cute spring break pictures and imagine you can feel the hot spring sun shining down on you in the cold dark library.
5. Acceptance.
It's 6 p.m. on Sunday night, and you've barely even scratched the surface of all the work you avoided. It's time to accept the facts. SB2K16 has come to an end. No more laying out on the beach working on your tan, or running around with your best friends on the latest adventure. It's time to say hello to school and goodbye to fun.
Or at least until summer break. Nine more weeks guys! We can do this.