There are only a couple of weeks left in the semester ,and everyone is buzzing with the excitement of summer and ending another school year, but stressed to the max with trying to finish everything on time. Everyone knows what it feels like to be emotionally and physically drained, and that’s what these last few weeks are doing to us. We’re all just waiting for summer break. But summer isn’t here yet – we still have assignments and papers due and finals to take. With so much left to do, and so little time to do it, here’s a list of things college students are all too familiar with during the last weeks of school.
1. Contemplating actually going to class
Let’s be real. We’ve all had days where we just didn’t want to go to class. Sometimes getting out of bed is hard because we are so over the semester. We find ourselves thinking more than once a day “Do I really have to go?”
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2. Calculating grades to figure out what you need to get on the final to pass the class
You’re busy turning in your final assignments and projects, and you’re trying to do as well as possible on them. You suddenly turn into a math guru when you figure out that the lowest you can get on the final exam is 94% to make your grade a B.
3. Cry about stress
You still have so much to do and your stress levels are rising beyond belief that you are at risk of crying at any second. That's ok. We’ve all been there.
4. Showing up anywhere on campus in sweats and a t-shirt because you really don’t care anymore
Not caring about your appearance really doesn’t matter when you have so many other things to do. You’ll show up to class in PJs with bed hair and continue with the rest of your day dressed that way.
5. Pulling way too many all-nighters
You have two papers to write and three tests to study for, and the only way to get it all done is to pull an all-nighter. But even when you’ve been up all night it sometimes feels like you haven’t made any progress with your work, so you’re at it again the next night.
6. Drinking more than enough coffee
How much is too much? When you have things to do, there definitely isn’t enough. Coffee will be the only thing you’re consuming during finals week.
7. Think of all the careers that don’t require a college degree
You sometimes think you’d rather drop out and work at a fast food restaurant for the rest of your life than sit in class and do all this work. But you realize that you’ve come too far to stop now, so you keep up the good work and stay in school. It makes you smart.
8. Recount the number of days until classes are done
“There’s no way there are only two weeks left in the semester?” Finals are closer than you think, and you have to keep counting the days to remind yourself that yes, you’ve almost made it through another year.
9. Finding any extra credit opportunities
You finally think that should try to make up some bonus points for that class you kept skipping, so you scope the scene for any possible event that would count as extra credit points. When you get there, you find out that many others are there as well, doing the same thing as you.
10. Pay for your procrastination.
You kept pushing aside the assignments that were given to you at the beginning of the semester, and now you have just a week to do them all. You get together with people in your class to finish the assignments together…hopefully you finish in time!
11. Live in the library.
It’s like everyone on campus suddenly remembers there is a library in the middle of campus during the last few weeks of school. You become one with the library, and you start seeing the same people in there every day with you.
