It doesn’t matter who you are, how old you are, or how smart you are, midterm season is stressful for everyone. Not only are you studying for evaluations worth a significant amount of your grade, but you’re also balancing all of your lectures, tutorials, labs and more! On top of that, we’re also expected to get enough sleep, do extracurricular activities, eat healthy, workout, and have a social life? Yeah, right! While everyone’s midterms and schedules may be a bit different, here are some thoughts that go through everyone’s mind during midterm season, portrayed by our faves, the cast of Friends!
When you promised that you’d start studying earlier than the night before this time…
But then your friend tells you they haven’t started studying either
When your prof tells you to “just know everything”
Then you get a text from someone who doesn’t do any work and they ask you to help them/send your notes
When you’re so sleep deprived that you take any opportunity for a quick nap
And you have that dream where you fail and have no future
When you’re trying to study and people around you are being loud
When you need to decide whether to go out or study
And you finally decide to stay in and hear about how much fun your friends are having
Or the other time when you went out and instantly regretted it.
When you don’t have time to do groceries so you cherish every last item in the fridge
That breaking point when you resort to trying to figure out how many questions you need to get right to pass
When your friend is more prepared than you
That moment when you see a word on the midterm that you’ve never seen before
The feeling when you do better than expected
Even though sometimes you think you killed it but really didn’t
When it’s the night before and you contemplate faking sick because you’ll fail otherwise
Or consider just dropping out altogether
When you see your friend after the midterm and argue about the right answer and then when you get it right
When the answer you got isn’t one of the multiple-choice options
When you don’t know the answer to a written answer question and need to come up with something
When you see the TA that’s marking the midterm right before it starts
When it doesn’t even matter if you do poorly because you’re almost done
Walking out of your last midterm like
When you start getting closer to home (and your bed)
When someone tries to make you do something productive after your midterm
That moment when you see the notorious red dot on MLS and need to mentally prepare before clicking it
And finally, my favourite: When you complain that you had no time and someone asks why you didn’t study over reading week
Happy studying Golden Hawks! You got this!