Christmas time can be one of the most joyful and exciting times of the year. We daydream of the cozy nights cuddled up to a loved one watching Christmas movies, spending quality time with family, and of course, receiving extra cash us college students need. Within the most wonderful time of year comes a most unpleasant and stressful time. Also known as finals week. (Insert dramatic music here.)A full week of cramming, crying, crashing, and contemplating an easier major. In that week, the joy of Christmas comes to a halt and for the next 168 hours you slowly turn into the Grinch.Your heart becomes an empty hole, your brain gets full of spiders, and you get garlic in your soul. Not to over exaggerate but people probably wouldn't touch you with a thirty nine and a half foot pole. Turning into a three-decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich can be something like:

1. People are being chatty in the library while you are studying an eighteen page study guide so you go from Cindy Lou Who innocent to "Grinch mode".

2. You start to scheme up an, oh so devious and Grinch like plan to make the loud people move. But with your brain fried from cramming, you decide to just day dream of steal their Christmas instead!

3. The Holy Grail of finals week comes in a fourteen ounce Dunkin Donuts cup and it puts you into "maximum over drive".

4. You get so wrapped up in studies that you forget socializing is a key to happiness so you don't become even more of a Grinch.

5. If your friends do invite you out you just can't stop cramming half a semester's worth of course work into one week! The nerve of those students! Inviting me down there - on such short notice! Even if I wanted to go my schedule wouldn't allow it. 4:00, wallow in self pity; 4:30, stare into the abyss; 5:00, solve world hunger, tell no one; 5:30, jazzercize; 7:00, wrestle with my self-loathing... I'm booked.

6. To mention the library one more time, it truly changes into your temporary home. If only air mattresses were allowed then I would just stay there.

7. Your biggest motivation is knowing after the final exams are over you can trash the semester binder and say you survived finals 2015.

8. Self explanatory......

9. The teacher assigns extra words onto the study guide so naturally you hate, hate, hate her. Double Hate. Loathe entirely!

As Cindy Lou Who would say, "don't forget the Grinch. I know he's mean and hairy and smelly. His hands might be cold and clammy, but I think he's actually kinda sweet". Obviously becoming The Grinch for the week is not your true Christmas character. Just a temporary character in a temporarily stressful time.The Grinch-like symptoms pass a few days once finals week is over and we get to focus on the happier times of the holidays.

With this said, Happy Holidays and Happy Finals Week!