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How Finals Can Ruin The Holidays

The holidays are for enjoying yourself but its kinda hard to when you got stress hanging over your head

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How Finals Can Ruin The Holidays
Brian Wu

Fall quarter finals are just placed on the worst days. It's pretty much winter break, why can't we sit back, relax, and enjoy it. Instead, we got finals to stress out about and to kill the mood. The holidays are for rejoicing and eating like conquerors.

After Thanksgiving break comes Christmas. Before everyone leaves for break, you and your friends want to plan Friendsmas. Only problem is that everyone is busy studying for finals and finishing up on projects. No one has time to be cooking and spending time on the food instead of studying. You also can't make time to hang out with friends before the holidays since everyone has different schedules and different final times.

The stress gets to you and prevents you from effing enjoying your friends' company. Let's be real, the only people who can enjoy finals week like they want to are the people who aren't worried about their classes. They can get drunk, with the new law, get high, go out and have whatever fun they'd like. Good for all y'all, seriously. But we still got school to focus on and pray we don't fail that class we're only studying the night before for.

The stress kills the holiday spirit because all we can think about is finals. We can't be wasting our brain power on future holiday plans and effing Christmas presents. Trying to think of a good Christmas present will take up so much more time than you will think. You will tell yourself, "Oh, I can think of the right presents no problem. It can't be too hard. I'd like to say I know my family pretty well". Now some people do know their family very well, so good on you guys for being great a great family members, but for the rest of us, we be struggling.

The holidays are for enjoying yourself but its kinda hard to when you got stress hanging over your head. Finals are so important but such a nuisance. Hopefully everyone has studied hard and can get through it so good luck everybody and happy holidays!

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