As we ate our turkey on Thanksgiving break, we could not forget that the end of the semester is approaching quickly. Before you know it, it will be the middle of December and you will be taking finals. Do not fear students. It is not as bad as it seems. You can rock the end of this semester and here is why:
You have done this before. If you are a freshman, you have taken cumulative finals before. It might have been high school, but it is still a large amount of material that you took an exam over. You survived four years of that — what is one more? If you are not a freshman, you know exactly what is in store for you. Depending on how you study, cramming for weeks of meticulously planned out study sessions, finals might be an uncertain death for you. Despite that, you have beat the odds and survived. Plus, if you are worried about taking more finals, that means you did well enough on your previous finals to still be in college. You've got this.
Everything you need is available to you. Let's hope you went to class. For those of you who went to class, you have heard the material before. If you did not go to class, you've still got this. You have notes and books at your disposal. All you have to do is use them.
You also have time. You have a few weeks before finals appear. You have the time to learn everything you were supposed to be learning over the semester. You have time to ask your classmates for notes. You have the time to meet with your professor. You've got this.
You have the ability to kick ass the rest of this semester. You have the ability to raise your GPA those few tenths of a point and keep that scholarship. You can make this semester that time where you try to live up to for the rest of your college career.
Do not forget that you have made it this far. You survived four years of waking up at 6:30 a.m. for high school. You survived the ACTs or SATs. You made it into college. Give yourself a little credit. Put it into perspective and your final will seem like nothing. It is just another exam, another one in the list of a million you have taken before.
There is a light at the end of the tunnel. That light is one month off of school for Christmas break. Don't give up; push through and nail the end of the semester. Don't stress out. Your grades do not define you. Your motivation and determination are what people will remember you by. So know that you've got this, you go Glen Coco.
