The many, different stages everyone goes through during finals week.

1. Ready to get the finals over with and head into Christmas break.

2. You begin studying, with 100% motivation. Nothing can stop you.

3. Then you start to lose hope after hours of studying and realizing you might not understand what you're doing.

4. Then it's the day of the final. The time has come, and you solemnly walk into the room.

5. 45 minutes into the final and people are starting to get up to leave...and you're only on question 15.

6. You take the full 2 hours to complete the final and leave the classroom unsure of how that all just went.

7. Other people in the class see you leave the room and ask you "How do you think you did?"

8. You head back to your room, left alone to think about the final. 'Was the taco bell run at midnight worth not getting that extra hour of studying?' 'Maybe I should of chose B instead of A on number 8.'

9. After a few days you get that text from a classmate that you've been waiting for, but at the same time dreading. "Grades are posted."

10. You nervously look online and realize the hard work was all worth it. Maybe you could have done better in some classes, but you made it.

11. You know at Christmas dinner one family member will ask you how school went. You...you're oh so ready to brag about how you once again made it through the school year.

Good luck to everyone on finals! They will be hard, some more than others, but you can do it! Take care of yourself, too. Study as much as you can, but get enough sleep and food, and its okay to stop studying once in awhile to go with your friends. Everything will work out!