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17 Things You'd Rather Do Than Look at Your Final Grade

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Dec 19, 2016

17 Things You'd Rather Do Than Look at Your Final Grade

The stress of finals and Hell week is finally behind us… or is it? While actual testing may be over the stress of final grades will be sure to carry on into the beloved Winter Break. For those of us who didn’t do so well on our finals, we’d rather not look at that final grade. Although, we know the time will come when Mom and Dad won’t quit asking how we did, and we’ll be forced to look. So, to procrastinate (because that’s what students do best!) looking at final grades here are 17 things to do!

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1. Scroll through Ben and Jerry’s Flavors to see which one you’re going to drown your sorrows in

2. Watch Trainwreck and pretend you’re Amy Schumer

3. Bang your head against the wall repeatedly so you can blame your failures on a severe concussion

4. Get belligerently drunk off of Eggnog to forget you even took finals

5. Go to Starbucks and read the New York Times as if you’re someone who actually understands what’s going on

6. Listen to your senile Great Aunt Kate tell the same story over and over again

7. Answer questions from obtrusive relatives like, Do you have a boyfriend? How’s school going? What are you going to do with that degree?

8. Search for future penthouse suites over looking Central Park, because “you’re going to get you’re act together next semester”

9. Bake cookies… like dozens and dozens of cookies

10. Go to church and pray for your final grades, although at this point it’s probably out of God’s hands too.

11. Listen to the entire Hamilton Soundtrack for 4 hours straight

12. Go through your Facebook album $ummer 2010<3333 from middle school

13. Better yet, go through old Facebook messages. That’s sure to get you in a good mood… or make you cringe.

14. Get back together with your psycho ex-boyfrend because nothing says giant mistake like him!

15. Watch Biden and Obama friendship videos with the pint of Ben and Jerry’s flavor you picked

16. Take an online course in mandarin Chinese- maybe this course you can pass?

17. Go golfing and start knitting a sweater- you’re going into retirement before you even work

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17 Things You'd Rather Do Than Look at Your Final Grade

Procrastination at its finest

1. Scroll through Ben and Jerry’s Flavors to see which one you’re going to drown your sorrows in

2. Watch Trainwreck and pretend you’re Amy Schumer

3. Bang your head against the wall repeatedly so you can blame your failures on a severe concussion

4. Get belligerently drunk off of Eggnog to forget you even took finals

5. Go to Starbucks and read the New York Times as if you’re someone who actually understands what’s going on

6. Listen to your senile Great Aunt Kate tell the same story over and over again

7. Answer questions from obtrusive relatives like, Do you have a boyfriend? How’s school going? What are you going to do with that degree?

8. Search for future penthouse suites over looking Central Park, because “you’re going to get you’re act together next semester”

9. Bake cookies… like dozens and dozens of cookies

10. Go to church and pray for your final grades, although at this point it’s probably out of God’s hands too.

11. Listen to the entire Hamilton Soundtrack for 4 hours straight

12. Go through your Facebook album $ummer 2010<3333 from middle school

13. Better yet, go through old Facebook messages. That’s sure to get you in a good mood… or make you cringe.

14. Get back together with your psycho ex-boyfrend because nothing says giant mistake like him!

15. Watch Biden and Obama friendship videos with the pint of Ben and Jerry’s flavor you picked

16. Take an online course in mandarin Chinese- maybe this course you can pass?

17. Go golfing and start knitting a sweater- you’re going into retirement before you even work

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4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

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1. When you have to provide an "interesting fact" for your first day ice-breaker.

2. When your professor is babbling on and on in his lecture.

3. When you edit your friend's paper and they get an A.

4. When it's 2 AM and you remember you have a test tomorrow.

5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

6. ...but then you get the test back and somehow passed.

7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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