The 11 Steps of Approaching Finals Week

It all starts when you flip your planner over and realize that you have 2 weeks left of classes.

And then your professors start to hand out the course evals, but you convince yourself it’s not THAT real because we didn’t get the tiny Church pencils this semester.

Then all of those papers you thought you had a million years to do start becoming due, like tomorrow.

Not to mention that presentation for the group project you and your group are still confused about.

And all the best social occasions of the year always seem to start piling up

But you still deny its existence, full-heartedly.

All of a sudden, you start to notice an influx of people you’ve never seen before who seem to be working overly hard in the library.

And THEN someone takes your spot in the library, and then everything becomes very real, very quick.

Your friends start talking about how their professor is out to get them.

And then you, of all people find yourself on your laptop late at night, scrambling to figure out the grade you will need on your final exams to get the GPA that you want