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31 Mentally-Draining Coffee-Addicting Stages of College Finals Week

The ugly truth.

Kaitlyn Miller

Dec 12, 2016

SUNY Oneonta

31 Mentally-Draining Coffee-Addicting Stages of College Finals Week

pls'Tis the season! Happy holidays! Eggnog! Menorahs! Presents! Celebration! Finals!

Yeah, I said it. It's Finals Week for all those college kids out there. Every semester, it's the same old story. You think you're going to finish strong, study the week away, sleep well, and get a solid grade.

And while that's possible for the rare anomaly of superhumans, for the rest of us, it is not.

Five days might not seem like a long time, but when you start cramming for a subject you have been passionately trying to avoid for 16 weeks, it feels like an eternity.

Let's take a moment and break down the various stages of Finals Week.

1. Heading to the library with your best friend to start studying

2. Ordering that first coffee

3. Opening up the textbook and not understanding the first review question

4. When someone explains the problem to you, but you still don't get it

5. Trying to remain positive

6. Realizing you should have started studying long, long ago

7. Grabbing a second coffee

8. Getting a question right

9. When you finally understand the material

10. But then starting the next subject

11. When someone interrupts you

12. When your parents call to check up on you

13. Walking into the library towards the end of the week

14. Ordering another coffee

15. Staying up until 3 a.m. to finish your paper

16. Then, getting up at 8 a.m. the next morning to get to your final

17. And grabbing another coffee on the way

18. That look to the classmate sitting next to you right before the test is passed out

19. The professor who gave you a cumulative exam

20. And them telling you there won't be any multiple choice

21. The professor who only tests you on the last few chapters

22. "You can bring a cheat-sheet."

23. Feeling confident until you finally get the test in front of you

24. Walking out of the final like

25. Until you remember you have one more to go tomorrow

26. And grabbing another coffee before you head back to the library

27. Waiting in your car until the last possible moment before your last test

28. However, you walk out of it like

29. Seeing your friends afterward like

30. Until one of them asks about a question on the back page......but you didn't know there was a back page

31. But it's okay, because

Happy Finals Week to the desperate, stressed, and annoyed young adults!

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1. Heading to the library with your best friend to start studying

2. Ordering that first coffee

3. Opening up the textbook and not understanding the first review question

4. When someone explains the problem to you, but you still don't get it

5. Trying to remain positive

6. Realizing you should have started studying long, long ago

7. Grabbing a second coffee

8. Getting a question right

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11. When someone interrupts you

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13. Walking into the library towards the end of the week

14. Ordering another coffee

15. Staying up until 3 a.m. to finish your paper

16. Then, getting up at 8 a.m. the next morning to get to your final

17. And grabbing another coffee on the way

18. That look to the classmate sitting next to you right before the test is passed out

19. The professor who gave you a cumulative exam

20. And them telling you there won't be any multiple choice

21. The professor who only tests you on the last few chapters

22. "You can bring a cheat-sheet."

23. Feeling confident until you finally get the test in front of you

24. Walking out of the final like

25. Until you remember you have one more to go tomorrow

26. And grabbing another coffee before you head back to the library

27. Waiting in your car until the last possible moment before your last test

28. However, you walk out of it like

29. Seeing your friends afterward like

30. Until one of them asks about a question on the back page......but you didn't know there was a back page

31. But it's okay, because

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17. And when you finally get to go back

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