While we're all waiting somewhat patiently for the new season of Game of Thrones...and no doubt, some of us are blatantly in denial about how much longer it really will be before we can check back in with our favorite characters. As well as facing the well known struggle of waiting for new episodes of any series, this week was also the first week of spring semester. So, as a way to help cope, I give you, spring semester told through Game of Thrones gifs.

When you first get back to school after so much time away, you feel like you could take on the world. This will be your semester.

But then you go to your first class. And for the first few days, your classes are nothing but "Okay, let's all say our name, major, year, and hometown..."

As the deadline steadily approaches to drop classes without any sort of penalty, you start questioning how much you really need that one class that you don't seem to have any hope of passing.

Before you even know it, it's midterms and you have no idea where the time went. How is the year almost over already? Is it even possible to save your GPA at this point? How does everyone else seem to have it together?

One day, you'll walk in and the professors will start trying to talk to you about what's on the final and how to study for it. This may happen weeks before finals week, signaling to you that this test is going to be harder than you want it to be.

As it starts to get warmer, the winter accessories go away and you come to class for the first time in months feeling like anything other than a cold marshmallow. What do you mean we still have school? It's practically summer. We should just skip finals and go to the beach.

Still, no matter how much you protest, or how much you try to deny it, dead week will still come. And you won't be ready, no matter how much studying you did in advance.

And then, you spend the next two weeks running on about two hours of sleep and more coffee than should be legal for one person to consume.

As you begin sitting through your finals, you realize how little you actually learned throughout the last four months.

If you're lucky, you'll have one test that you thought you were going to fail, but when you get to the room, it's surprisingly easy. You actually feel like maybe you can do this, with only minimal reminders that summer is almost here.

And finally, you walk out of your last final and the feeling of knowing you're free for the next few months is one that cannot be compared to anything.

And you know that in a few months, the whole thing will start all over again.