Finals week(s) are one of the most terrible times of the year. Thank goodness it is only two weeks out of the year. You had the class for a semester, but nothing can prepare you for a five page, cumulative French exam that you know that you can only ever get a C on because the teacher hates you. Okay, maybe I had a very stressful finals week.
Regardless, those few days of finals can make you feel like you had an emotional beating with every classroom you walked into. Maybe sometimes instead of emotionally beating yourself, you felt like physically beating up someone else... Anyways, I can't really talk about it because the first and second rule is to not talk about it, but here is how it accurately describes finals week:
1. You can't really tell if you are asleep or awake ![]()
Sometimes that studying gets so long and so late, you can feel as though you've reached some transcendent state between asleep and awake. All you want to do is sleep, but there's just one more powerpoint that you feel you need to go over.
2. You feel that more pain is more gain
The less sleep you get, the less talking with your friends, the less senseless snapchats means better grades. Of course, better grades means better job, better wife, better house, better car. You know the process.
3. When you're not studying for finals, you don't talk about finals![]()
If you're lucky enough to have a break, which are few and far between, you don't want to think about the beast you are about to face. You want to sit there and watch those Logan Paul videos in peace.
4. You've considered alternative ways to get out of taking your finals
Whether it was going into their office and convincing your professor to not giving you a final, faking a death in the family, or getting on the next flight out of there, you've thought of what are ways you could get out of it.
5. You've doubted your religion
You've seriously considered if our Supreme Overlord would put you through Dante's Inferno.
Hopefully, everyone's finals went well and if you're going through them right now or soon, may the odds be ever in your favor. For now, take a break, browse Odyssey and not realize that 3 hours have passed, and watch Fight Club.
Peace.
