Dear finals,

Please stop bothering me. Seriously, please. It's like you want me to develop a stomach ulcer from the combination of stress and ingesting too much caffeine. And, to be quite honest, I don't really appreciate it. What I would appreciate would be for you to leave me alone and let me live my life in peace.

I'm tired. I barely have enough time to take study breaks to eat. I barely even have time to write this article. I've drunk more coffee than water for the past few days, and I've had enough.

It really hurts my feelings that you put so much pressure on me. It's seriously so rude. I don't know if you're having issues in your personal life or something, but either way, you shouldn't take it out on me. I've never done anything to you, keep that in mind. Like... one test being 45 percent of my grade? Who's idea was that?

But, I thank you. Some people would kill to get an education half the quality that I'm getting right now, and for some reason, I still want to complain about it. I'm lucky. We all are, even when it doesn't feel like it. So, even when we're discouraged, there's really only one thing to do: kick ass on those tests and take advantage of this opportunity that a lot of others will never get.

So, Finals, yeah I wish that you would leave me alone and that I could breeze through college pass/fail and never have to cram again. But, seeing as that will never happen, it's time to buckle down and suffer now to get the rewards we want later.

We can do it, y'all!

From,

A college student