Like every depressing moment of our lives, we have five stages through which we process it. This is a slightly altered version in terms of having to endure the last two months before we can feel free once more!
Stage One: Denial
It’s the day before classes start and you’re staring at your WebAssign login and the list of assignments due this upcoming week. While you might be smiling on the outside, if someone asks you how your classes are going, then you probably look like this:
Let’s not forget about the moment we actually do open our planners and see that you have many more assignments than anticipated.
Then, of course, we just begin to put it off even more and keep telling ourselves the studying won’t pile up, but then it's Sunday night and you have no choice but to get to work.
Stage Two: Anger
When you’re facing your laptop screen and all you can think of doing is blaming every single person that lead up to you working at this godly hour -- everyone except you of course.
And, of course, when you’re complaining you have to text the few people that won’t completely judge you, and complain to them.
Stage Three: Bargaining
After realizing you have little choice in the matter of actually doing your work, you begin to equate that one chapter of chemistry warrants one episode of "Jane the Virgin", or one WebAssign assignment is equal to three Hershey kisses.
So even if you feel stressed out, you have Netflix and food by your side to keep you company.
Stage Four: Depression
You then begin to realize the consequences of not studying or working, and start crying a little inside.
And you begin to sulk a little bit as you struggle with the fact that you have little choice in the matter anymore, and laugh at hour ago you for thinking otherwise.
Stage Five: Acceptance
But then you have no choice, but to actually get to work.
And before you know it it’s pretty early in the morning, but you’ve finally finished whatever you could before class.
