Finals week...it has come. Papers, presentations, and exams are abounding this week. As we finish these last final days, packing up our entire lives and making sure that we complete every last task set for us on the syllabus (to which we have been holding so tightly to all semester), we find ourselves in need of encouragement. We need someone to explain what we are feeling, because we might not even know ourselves. "The Lord of the Rings" was an epic masterpiece of three movies that gave amazing quotes, shots, acting, and stories. The material in "The Lord of the Rings" is endless, so I decided to do a three-part series with it to get you through the end of the semester, and it is time for it to come to an end. The final installment will give you finals week as told by "The Lord of the Rings."
1. When you stand up to give your final presentation
It can be surreal to say the least, but when you stand up to give your final speech, it is one of the best feelings. Embrace it—you are almost done.
2. When you look at your final exam and remember what you didn't study
You get that stapled test, flip to the first page and realize what you were sure was not going to be on the test, is on the test.
3. When you hand your professor your completed final
You have to choke down your last few pleads for mercy.
4. When your classmate asks how you got your answer for number five
Does it really matter, as long as you got an answer and wrote it down?
5. When someone asks how the exam went
It's over; what else could you ask for?
6. When you realize your next exam is tomorrow and its time to start studying.
Because there is always another final.
7. When you wake up from dreams about summer
And you slowly realize you have two finals and a paper due that day.
8. When people start talking about the test you just took
And you don't really want to know exactly what you did wrong because it's too late to fix it anyway.
9. When you can finally celebrate the end of finals week
Too bad it's time to start packing now...
10. When you step on the plane or get on the road to go home
Packing, papers, tests, and paperwork are done. You can relax from here on out...or until it's time to start your summer job.
Finals week has arrived, but you have been prepping for this all semester, and if you haven't, well, go study, because in a few weeks summer starts and you have time to give your brain a break. From packing, exams, papers and all there rest of the stressful things, I hope that "The Lord of the Rings" has encouraged you these past few weeks, or in the very least, inspired your summer reading list, or movie-watching plans.
Go take your finals!
