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The Stress Of Finals Told By Your Favorite Sitcom Characters

We are all there and we are all stressed.

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The Stress Of Finals Told By Your Favorite Sitcom Characters
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Finals are one of the worst times of the semester. All of that stress that has built up during the semester finally comes out when you look at your schedule and then you look at all of the things you have to accomplish within a two week period. It actually seems impossible. You start to lose your mind a little bit. And just don't even know what to do with yourself. We are all in the same boat and these are some things that some of us may go through during this time period or just throughout college.

Like Lucille, drinking may help…sometimes it even seems like the solution.

We all feel like we are going to physically die because of the amount of things we need to accomplish in the small window of two weeks...sometimes less.

But when your friends and family ask you how you are doing...

There is that point where we really go crazy and try to stop finals from happening by "accidentally" getting hurt or just drinking a little too much and doing something crazy. It usually doesn't work but most people only think about trying these things — a lot of people don't actually do them. If they do, it never turns out how they want it to.

So, when that doesn't work, you think screaming will help...it probably won't. Instead, you just freaked everyone out in the coffee shop or library you were actually trying to study in.

We all have that professor that assigns extra homework randomly — it isn't even in the syllabus. But we won't do it because it isn't in the syllabus and we already have way too much going on.

Instead of studying we try to distract ourselves and comfort ourselves with food, to eat our feelings away. It only works for a little bit then you realize that the holidays are coming up and you're going to gain, like, 20 pounds. So, you regret it...a little bit.

During this time, you have also gotten zero sleep because of the small amount of studying and the big amount of worrying. So, staying awake during your last week of classes — let alone the finals — is almost impossible.

But the thing is...finals are not the end of the world. We are just scared that they will mess up our grade and we won't pass the college.

Then, it is the day before your first final...and you realize you have only wasted time crying, eating, drinking, screaming, and reading online articles about suffering through finals.

But of course we can't forget the alcohol...it has helped us through break-ups, fights, studying, and class. So, when all else fails, you know what to thank.

Unless you are a pills person...then you are probably doing fine.

Either way, we can't function AT ALL during this short time period...or during college at all.

You still haven't done much studying or writing because you don't even know where to begin. And you wonder why you even chose college in the first place.

We are so stressed that we lash out at pretty much everyone...even if we don't mean it.

But when it is all over you have the holidays and...

GOOD LUCK ON YOUR FINALS!

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