As a college student, I often like to quote "SpongeBob" for a quick laugh, because many other college students have also grown up watching the show, and share a mutual love for it. Many of the episodes are very relevant to our lives right now, especially during finals week. As many of us are grinding away studying and writing final papers, we can have some relief that even our childhood cartoons understand our pain.

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1. Struggles of keeping focused to get things done last minute

When SpongeBob has to write an essay for boating school, he can’t seem to keep focused and finds a million other things to do instead of just committing to writing his essay. We all find ourselves to be focused on little details and tasks before doing the more important, stressful activity.

2. Tests are hard and bad scores happen

Tests can be difficult, especially when you have multiple things going on all at once. Even when we think during the test that we might just be able to pull off a passing score, we get the grades back, and we might as well have not taken the test in the first place. SpongeBob finds himself in this position often when it comes to boating school, but he never gives up, regardless how many times he has retaken the test. Bad scores just happen sometimes.

3. Food-related items are a must

I think we have all been at the point of being so stressed that candy and sweets become a big driving force of our existence, and we will do just about anything to get them. Even if everyone around us thinks we are crazy.

4. Your brain is overloaded with so much information in a short amount of time

That was when Squidward had SpongeBob become knowledgeable in the field of “fine dining” in a short amount of time. This only allowed Spongebob to know the information for a short amount of time before he had a breakdown where he was no longer able to take any more information, and essentially was broken. This feeling is all too real for college students during finals week.

5. Accepting and embracing your stressed-out, dead look

Sometimes you just don’t have the time to look like a presentable, contributing member of society. After a couple of days, you start to wonder if you ever want to wear real pants again because, well, you are ugly, proud, and passing your classes.

For all my fellow college students going through finals week: Regardless of how stressed and tired you may be, you are in the home stretch, and that much closer to a very deserved break. If Spongebob can get himself through similar stages, you can too!