The end of April and the beginning of May are a college student's personal hell. Exams. Presentations. Projects. Papers. There seems to be no end in sight. Worst of all, your parents and friends won't stop asking you what you're plans are for the summer. "Have you found a job yet?" "Is that internship paid?" "Do you ever do anything besides watch Netflix?" As life seems to come crashing down around you, try to cheer yourself up with this thought: the characters of "Drake and Josh" can perfectly describe how you're feeling at the end of the semester.
1. You're so overwhelmed, you have a breakdown every night.
2. When your professors say, "Don't forget, the exam is tomorrow," you hear:
3. You get so stressed out before exams that you can't even remember the easy stuff.
The simplest information seems to fall right out of your brain.
4. You freak out when you get a draft of a paper back and your professor says it's too repetitive.
She just doesn't understand your writing style!
5. You start to come up with really far-fetched justifications for your bad procrastination habits.
6. You blame your professors for all of your problems.
Who assigns a 20 page paper that's due in the middle of finals week? I mean, we've known about it since the first day of classes and had months to work on it, but still!
7. Then you start to take your stress out on your friends. The tiniest thing can set you off.
and then they say:
Which of course makes you even angrier. TAKE IT EASY? I have five finals, two papers and sixteen life decisions to make by tomorrow! NO!
8. At some point, you go through that phase where you just completely give up.
But then that ends pretty quickly when your realize you need to pass in order to graduate and get a job so you don't have to live with your parents or have fifteen roommates for the rest of your life.
9. You try to trick people into doing some of your work for you.
But they say:
10. You practice one of your presentations in front of your friends, hoping none of them notice the blatantly inaccurate statistics you made up just to make it sound better.
But of course they still call you out, and now you know you're going to have to go back and actually do the research. Ugh.
11. Sometimes, you lose your mind and start just screaming random things in the middle of the night to release some stress.
And it feels awesome.
12. But in the end, all of the late nights and breakdowns are worth it when you pass all your classes.
Good luck college students; you can do it!
