As the semester comes to a close, it's easy to get caught up wishing and hoping for winter break to come as soon as it can and to finally be done with fall semester classes. However, finals are right around the corner and whatever you do, you need to try and focus on studying and finishing your finals before getting in the holiday spirit.

1. Waking up at 10 and studying for 12 hours is going to be my plan for tomorrow.

At first this seems like a great idea, but the next thing you know, it is 3 in the afternoon and you are lying in bed watching your fifth episode of Friends that day. Crazy right? You told yourself only one episode and here you are still lying in bed. And even if you somehow manage to get up and go to the library for 10, a 30 minute break after reading 3 pages seems like the perfect way to get things done.

2. I'd rather be sleeping.

For some reason, the weeks leading up to finals seem to be weeks where sleeping just sounds even better than going to disney world. Every chance I get to sleep is quite the opportunity during a week as busy as this one.

3. Feeling extremely unprepared.

You feel like that even after studying for hours you are still at square one and know absolutely nothing about the class or the final, but you decide that it's all you'll ever know and you are completely happy with the C you are about to receive as long as it means you get to go home in a few days.

4. How happy you'll be once you get rid of that annoying professor.

You immediately thought about that one guy that assigns you pointless essays that were never on the syllabus. It will be so nice to get rid of them after you take their final and to never have to suffer through another deathly boring lecture.

5. You probably shouldn't have skipped over all of those online course homework assignments...

...because now it is 3 hours before the due date and you have to go through 24 lesson plans. Yet somehow you think it might still be possible to get a C in the class

6. All those extra credit options, which didn't seem so necessary when you had an A, suddenly become the key to survival when you realize that pulling an A on the final is the only way you'll be able to pass the class...

At this point your hopes seem extremely out of reach.

7. Suddenly, calculating the lowest possible grade you could receive in order to pass a class seems way more important than actually studying.

Break seems so far away, but I promise if you work hard and study for the weeks that you have left, you will feel extremely rewarded and relieved when you look back at your final grades and somehow make the deans list. It makes all the struggling completely worth it.

Good luck!