The second-to-last week of school is possibly the best and worst week of the semester. You’re two weeks away from home-cooked meals, relaxation, and general laziness, but you also have exams on the classes that you’ve been taking for the last four months. Instead of diligently locking yourself in your room with a textbook, here are some things that you might do instead of preparing for finals:
1. Make useless to-do lists
Although you aren’t as bogged down with homework as you were at the beginning of the semester, you’re technically supposed to be preparing for finals all week. Instead, you make countless to-do lists that boast feats like studying for English, doing laundry, and packing for home all in perfect little one hour intervals. Unfortunately, these lists end up completely useless and you pull all-nighters to make up for lost time.
2. Calculate the “what-if” grade
We all have one class that we’re definitely not going to get an A in, but if we get a good enough grade on the final we can manage something respectable. Calculating the “what-if” grade is a glorious time where you end up doing more math than you would on an actual math exam just to see if you need an 85% or 86% on the final to get a B in the class. Your calculator will thank you later.
3. Complain about finals on Twitter
There’s something oddly satisfying about reading other people’s tweets about finals and then just sharing that mutual moment of suffering together. It is also more satisfying to spend more time coming up with witty finals tweets than actually studying for finals.
4. Search for alternative jobs completely unrelated to your major
There comes a time while studying where you just completely give up and begin the Google search for “high-paying jobs that don’t require a college degree”. My personal favorite right now is to determine how talented I really have to be at singing to become a Youtuber-turned-recording-artist.
5. Take every single quiz that Buzzfeed has ever created
It’s 1 a.m and you’re on Buzzfeed taking the “Which Possible Illuminati Member Are You?” quiz. Buzzfeed is the site where you go to look up one thing, and suddenly its been six hours and you haven’t left your computer. Right before finals week is when it becomes even more tempting to spend copius amounts of time on Buzzfeed, which is why they deliberately dedicate an entire section of their website to finals-inspired articles and quizzes.
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https://twitter.com/AdamSmith_USA/status/671365968992600064?ref_src=twsr…
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