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

The ugly truth.

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

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You can't just go to your room to take a nap in the middle of your classes.

Having to spend all your extra cash on gas for your car.

Speaking of money, you probably don't have a meal plan so you're forced to scrounge up some change or mooch off of your friends.

It can be harder to maintain the friendships you make with people from class.

Finding a parking spot.

It can be harder to be involved on campus because between your one, two, or three jobs and school you don't have much free time.

When you try to be super involved on campus, it can kill your sleep schedule.

It's impossible to do homework at home, but staying on campus isn't an option sometimes.

There are surveys and events that you can't participate in because you're a commuter.

Group projects are the bane of your existence.

Traffic.

Your backpack rivals that of a survivalist trekking in the woods.

Driving all the way to campus to find a note on the door of your classroom saying class was cancelled.

Because have you ever had to endure grilling your foot on a George Foreman?

1. When he just wanted bacon from his George Foreman grill

2. When he had money (and Jan) issues

3. When he got upstaged at Phyllis' wedding

4. When he unintentionally saved Meredith from rabies

5. When he wore a "bisexual" suit

6. When he had to apologize to Jesus

7. When his GPS drove him into a lake

8. When he had to deal with Ryan as his boss

9. When he couldn't fulfill his most generous empty promise

10. When this happened

11. When he struggled with a X-Mas break up

12. When he had to defend his generosity

13. When he threw a classy Christmas party for Holly but she had a boyfriend

14. When he had to stand up to peer pressure

15. When Toby was "Toby-ish"

This isn't just for the single Pringles out there either, folks

Run Around Clanging Pots and Pans in Everyone's Face

Eat the Last Few Pigs in a Blanket

Pop Twelve White Grapes

Burn Something

Smash Things Against a Wall

Spontaneously Begin an Irish Jig

Call Your Mother

Throw a Coffee Table Out a Window

Sing "Auld Lang Syne" at the Top of Your Lungs

Do Some Squats

Swan Dive into a Nearly Freezing Body of Water

Take a Shot

Time to be merry and bright.

"First Noel" by Leslie Odom, Jr

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