When you look through your calendar of everything you have to do in the next two weeks:

When you try to justify why you're too busy to go to your classes during dead week:

When your professor tells you they're not giving a final:

When your professor announces that your exam is scheduled for the Friday of finals week:

When you have to make sure to plan for your mental breakdown of the day:

When you try to cram all of the information from your textbook that you were supposed to read the night before the final:

When you're completely unprepared on the day of the test and you debate how bad your grade would be if you didn't show up:

When you immediately forget everything you crammed in your brain after the exam so that you can start cramming for next one:

When you're studying with a group and no one will stop talking:

When you try and fail to be original on your final presentation:

When you get assigned a final project on top of the final you already have for one class:

When you decide that eating sounds better than working even though you're not hungry:

When you have to make sure that you take a break for some me time every once in a while so you don't lose your mind:

When you struggle to think of how to start your first sentence on your paper:

When you have to pull an all-nighter to finish that last assignment that you procrastinated on:

When you finally get your grade up to the next letter grade and hope that you don't mess it up:

When your professor gives you an extension on the deadline for your final paper:

When you just can't handle the pressure anymore:

When you look in the mirror and realize that you've worn the same sweats three days in a row:

When you can't remember the last time that you saw sunlight:

When you finally go outside after being inside for days:

When you ace a final and you know it:

When you start taking your frustration out on everything else for no reason:

When your friends start bothering you to hang out while you are trying to study:

When you decide that you've spent too much time in isolation and deserve to go out and have some fun:

When you have to sort through all of your papers and doodles from the semester to find your notes:

When all of your friends are done with their finals and are celebrating but you still aren't finished with yours:

When you try to give yourself a pep talk before your test:

When you finally get to walk out of your last exam of the semester:

When you realize that you actually made it out of the semester alive:

When you have to say goodbye to all of your college friends for a whole month:

When you find out that there's a curve:

When you finally leave campus to go home for winter break:

When you get home and realize how soon the holidays are:

When Christmas finally arrives and you realize that it was all worth it: