I was just thinking.. I wonder if finals are this awful in other countries/other schools. So if you have never been to a University where you have extremely important/ hard tests all at once I will fill you in… It’s like this…

One week away, dead week. Why do they call it dead week? I think it should be called want to pull your hair out and light it on fire week. Any class with final projects/ final papers makes you turn them in this week. Once those are done you realize that you have 4 exams covering everything you learned in 5 months all in the same day and you don’t even know how to study anymore. And when you try to study all the notes you took start to look like japanese and russian mixed together to form a new language…

You drink so much coffee that you start peeing brown and you can’t sit still without shaking so much that you fall out of your chair when trying to write. You have no money to spend on food because you have no time to work, and you have no time to work because you have to study so that you can get a job that gets you money to find food. Right?

Then finals week rolls around. It’s Monday. And you realize that you mixed up the time of your final. OH MY GOD DID I MISS THE EXAM. Oh wait, no, you are just 2 hours early for it. Then when you do actually have the final you get done first and feel like something is wrong. Why am I the first done, did I do the essay wrong? Should I have written more than 6 pages for 2 essays? Did I not include enough examples? Did I read the wrong book? Am I in the right classroom? Is this the right city? Oh wait… maybe you were just more prepared than others…(I hope.)

Tuesday. This test was so easy! I am so going to get an A! I feel like I aced that test. Oh yeah! ……… Then the grades come. #%$&!!!! Okay an 80% is not that bad. But it’s definitely not an A. Oh well. At least it’s passing…

Wednesday. This day is a trip to campus to take another exam. Wait a minute. No one is here. Why is no one here? Where the hell is everyone? Where are my notes… maybe I’m early for this exam…. wait a minute. It says the exam was on the 13th. The 13th. THE 13TH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT WAS YESTERDAY!!!!!!!! Oh my gosh I am going to fail this and then I can’t take the next class next semester and then I can’t graduate and and…

Whew. My professor is going to let me take it late. What a nice guy.

And that is where I am at so far. It’s almost 1am I have all day tomorrow to study and one test left. Is it possible that I will survive finals this semester.

One can only hope.