It's that time during the semester again where it's midterm after midterm, essay after essay. College students everywhere are catching the mid-semester blues. This disease is malignant; it's destroying college students' mental health and peace of mind one student at a time. If you find yourself relating to any of the following symptoms, then you can probably diagnose yourself with the mid-semester blues.
1. Mental breakdowns are becoming a nightly occurrence.
2. You find yourself watching friends from other schools enjoying their break on social media, wishing more than anything to have their lives.
3. You wonder when you last ate food because you just spent the past 12 hours with your head in a textbook.
Who needs food when you have caffeine?
4. The local coffee shop has your order memorized.
I'd like a medium, iced hazelnut swirl coffee with non-fat milk, please.
5. You begin to question your major and weigh the pros and cons of staying in school.
Majoring in mechanical engineering with an emphasis in biology won't help you cure your Netflix addiction. Priorities.
6. It seems as if the work never stops and it starts interfering with crucial gym and tanning time.
You can practically see yourself losing your tan and your inner self hates you for skipping leg day.
7. Phone calls with your parents have to be cut short.
"No, Mom, I don't need to FaceTime the dog."
8. Your outfits require the least effort possible.
You've mastered the "just rolled out of bed" look, and find it quite fitting.
9. Time becomes a concept.
You leave the library confused as to why it's dark outside, considering you entered at noon. Has it really been seven hours?
10.You panic when you're on your last hour of a "5-Hour Energy."
11. The library is your second home.
Calculus textbook? Check. Philosophy manual? Check. Laptop? Check. Food, water, toothbrush, deodorant, extra clothes? Check.
12. Three to four hours of sleep a night has become cherishable.
13. You and your roommates have a mutual agreement to be as quiet as possible when the others are sleeping, regardless of the time of day.
You don't know how long it has been since they've seen a bed or shut their eyes in general.
14. Conversations with your friends begin to look identical.
"Hey, what's up?" "Studying, what about you?" "Same."
15. You've lost count of how many times you've turned down plans to study.
