Is finals week hanging you out to dry? Are you ready to drop out, paint yourself orange and black and become a Monarch Butterfly? Are you ready to grab a bed sheet, put all your stuff in it, tie it to a stick and run into the wild and become a hobo? If you answered yes to any of these questions take a deep breath and live like Kobe.

1. Have a Gladiator Mentality & Welcome All Changes

Hype yourself up! It's finals weeks and no matter what you do you cannot avoid it so go in for the kill. Are you taking 18 credits? You may not be able to ace 18 credits worth of final papers and tests but you better put your best foot forward and put your all into it.

2. Know What Fuels You, What Drives You

If you need to take a cold shower, open all the windows and blast the fan while you sit naked and study or write that paper than do that! No one knows what you need to succeed more than you, alright? Don't let anyone get in the way! Not even your roommate. You have a week left if they want to report you let them go right ahead.

3. Fear is a Great Motivator

Are you scared to fail all your classes? Good be scared! Be so scared that you get your final papers done in a timely manner so you and others have time to look over them and you study for that test way before the night before. Those who turn finals in seconds before they're due to have no fear.

4. Be a Talented Overachiever

So if you've been slacking finals week isn't really the time to be an overachiever unless you can eat, breathe and sleep with your eyes open and turn that 8-10 paper into an 18-20 but just a warning you probably shouldn't. What you should do is finish your finals before there due, show up to the test with a pencil that's not broken and do the best you can.

5. Accept Your Nature

Are you a procrastinator? Accept that! Don't live by that, though. You must accept things before you can change them. So change it! Finals weeks is a great time to test your boundaries because to be honest you're probably going to end up crying in a public place where people are studying anyway.

6. Honor the Game

Thank the system for finals because they can bring that D to a C, that C to a B and a B to an A. You may hate them, they might cause you to literally pull your hair out and bite into an orange like it's an apple, but in the end you'll feel extremely accomplished when you're finally done with them and you can sleep for more than 3 hours at a time.

7. Master Your Craft

If you need to have a good cry between each final then cry your eyes out. If you need to not sleep the entire week during finals then do that (don't really do that but I can't really stop you so do you). If you need to shower with all the lights off and talk to yourself about how the economy is going downhill to distract yourself from finals for half an hour then do that.

8. Live With Passion

You say you're never going to go through this again but you will. I know it, you know it, the girl down the hall you don't even know knows it, the librarian knows it, hell even Obama knows it so just be glad it will eventually come to an end and the cycle will repeat itself.