1. It’s 8 p.m., and your motivation is at its peak. You’re ready to beast-mode your way through this essay like it’s nobody’s business.
2. However, as time progresses with slow work output, you can feel your productivity level tanking and your motivation slipping.
3. The paper becomes the last thing you want to do. For causing you so much grief and frustration, all you can think of your professor is…
4. You can practically hear your professor laughing at all of his or her poor students reveling in their despair like some kind of tyrannical ruler.
5. You decide to take a “brief” break from your hard work with a couple of YouTube videos. But as one link leads to another, the clock strikes 1 a.m.
6. And you desperately, but futilely, wish there was some shortcut that would magically complete your assignment for you and get you a decent grade.
7. As the night progresses with minimal productivity, you hate yourself for not starting your essay earlier and wish someone had slapped some sense into you sooner.
8. All you can think about is your bed and pillows and sleep and pajamas…
9. Things just seem dark and cold, and it’s basically just a sad, sad time.
10. As your deadline rapidly approaches, depression and anguish hit you like a wall. You feel like an idiot for even thinking this essay would be possible to finish in one night.
11. But no. At 5 a.m., you decide you’ve come too far to turn back. Inspiration strikes, and you go H.A.M., working through the essay with a cold, detached, determined mindset.
12. To anyone who tries to interrupt or disturb you when you’re in the zone, you’re just like…
13. With exactly two minutes to spare before the 8 a.m. deadline, you hit the submit button, feeling like a total boss, and vow to never pull an all-nighter again.
14. But let’s be real. You’ll be in the same situation again in a couple weeks like the Hodor you truly are.