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13 Stages of Studying For Finals

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Whether we like it or not, the most dreaded week of the semester is creeping up on us: finals week. Those two words carry so many different emotions. We’re excited that classes are coming to a close, sad that we’ll be leaving our friends soon, and internally screaming at the thought of cramming a semester’s worth of studying into a few days. If you’re looking for a how-to guide about the best ways to study, you won’t find that here. College students tend to have very bizarre ways of studying. Here are the inevitable stages you will go through while trying to study for a final.

1. Good intentions.

This is the stage in which we plan and prepare. Maybe we write a list of all the things we have to study. We might even open a few textbooks and uncap a few pens. We’re ready to get down to business and nothing is going to stop us. Except…

2. Oh Look, A Text!

We swear we were about to start studying, but someone just happened to shoot us a text and we can’t ignore our friends, right? What if it’s something important? What if they need my help? We have plenty of time to study, it’ll be fine.

3. Instagram.

Or Facebook, Twitter, or Snapchat. I mean, we were already on our phones, so maybe we can just spare a few minutes to check our social media. We inevitably see all of our friends posting artsy pictures of their notebooks with comments like “Study time!” Is there something wrong here?

4. Back To Work.

Okay, now that that’s over with, time to really get started. You might even get a little bit done in this stage. In fact, you’re so proud of yourself that you decide to give yourself a little reward…

5. Snack Break!

How can we expect to study on an empty stomach? Okay, well maybe not an empty stomach, we did eat lunch like an hour ago, but that’s beside the point. Time for some ramen.

6. All That Eating Made Us Sleepy.

“I’m only going to nap for like, 20 minutes tops” we promise ourselves. We set an alarm and everything. But what do we do when that alarm goes off? Snooze it and sleep for another hour or two of course.

7. Okay, We’re Serious This Time.

Despite all of our shenanigans, we still have a decent amount of usable study hours in the day. We can do this.

8. But, Netflix.

We opened up our laptop to find the syllabus and we thought that we had enough self-control to stop our fingers from typing N-E-T-F-L-I-X in the search bar, but we were wrong.

9. It’s Midnight Already?!

How on earth did that happen? Even worse, how have we only finished a quarter of all the things we had to do? This stage comes with a brief panic and feelings of absolute doom.

10. Cram Mode.

For some reason, college students work a lot better under pressure, especially late at night. Maybe that’s because we procrastinate so much that panic is the only thing that drives us to do anything. Still, this can work to our benefit. This is the stage in studying in which we somehow manage to finish more in an hour than we had all day long.

11. Second Snack Break.

Okay who are we kidding, we haven’t stopped eating since the first snack break.

12. Crying.

Other versions and variations of this stage include, but are not limited to: Debating Dropping Out Of College, Sad-Eating, Lying On The Floor and Blankly Staring At The Ceiling, and Crying Some More.

13. The Miracle.

By some crazy miracle, we finish just in time to get two whole hours of sleep! That’s more sleep than we’ve gotten all week!

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