- You’re taking naps at odd hours, just to wake up at 12:30 am and finish your final essay (and then submit just before the deadline). Power napping after every coffee shop is closed is definitely a sign of low energy.
- Eating isn’t a priority. Your room, backpack, car are all riddled with granola bar wrappers, and you’ve been through the drive-thru so much, you feel it would be more helpful to simply have a job working there. Skipping meals isn’t normal or healthy, but now a handful of Goldfish Crackers is just routine.
- You haven’t had clean clothes in a while. The dirty piles just keep growing and growing, and you’ve resorted to wearing the underwear you bought from The Limited Two in 6th grade.
- You currently have 13,572 unread emails.
- You have broke down into guttural sobs over something of the following: an old lady walking her French bulldog, a Timehop of your last vacation, realizing there was a point in your life where you were suppose to nap every day, or just because the traffic light won’t change and you have a minute to get to work.
- Since it easier to make all those trips through the drive-thru, your wallet is now suffering as much as you are. And since you bank account is as low as your motivation to continue on this semester, you’ve learned to craft together different varieties of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and ramen noodles, just to try to make them exciting.
- Social Media is the only way you’ve been able to keep up with your friends. They are just as stressed out and losing just as much control as you are.
- You have 6 unpaid parking tickets.
- You are always sick. Six months straight with a sore throat or a nasty cough isn’t normal, but it’s your end of the semester reality.
- 10. In addition to always being sick, you are always in physical pain. Your spine is constantly cracking because you’re always hunched over your computer or books and your stomach is constantly in knots. You just don’t feel like yourself.
- 11. You have stopped going to the gym, but you’ve started your 3rd viewing of The Walking Dead.
- 12. You’re always either in a bad mood, incredibly sad, or just depressed. Happy isn’t an emotion you feel anymore.
- 13. You’re constantly checking and rechecking your grades, or calculating your final and how you need a 127% in order to reach a 4.0.
- 14. The best news you’ve received all semester is knowing the Therapy Dogs will be on campus.
- 15. And finally, you’re writing your Odyssey article last minute because you have completely overwhelmed yourself this semester.
Good luck on your finals! Your hard work will pay off. Just try to keep your stress down, and please go do your laundry.
