Thanksgiving break = over. All that’s left is just a couple of weeks before the semester ends and you return home for winter break. But no one ever tells you that even though these weeks seem short and easy, they’re actually the longest and most difficult times you’ll have to push through. It gets the best of us; honestly, we’re not sure that we’ll all get out of this semester okay. Here are some signs that you might succumb to the torture that is sandwiched between the two best breaks.
1. You’ve stopped going to classes. I mean, who wants to trek through the snow to go to an hour lecture anyway? Especially when you could be sleeping.
2. Cooked meals? That’s funny. You’ve switched out your fresh veggies for some ramen and chips…always a good sign.
3. When someone asks you how your multiple papers are going that are due next week…and you haven’t even started them.
4. You keep telling yourself that you don’t need to study *that* hard for your upcoming exam, since there will be other ways to make up any lost points…until you realize that this is the last thing going towards your grade.
5. Your friends finish their finals early so you’re stuck at school alone.
6. When you do actually make it to the library to study, you spend too many hours on social media instead of studying.
7. When your midterm grades are released, you can’t help but cry.
8. So you spend all of your time studying for finals to make up for it, and lose sleep in the process.
9. There are times when everything gets too overwhelming and you can’t help but think you won’t survive.
10. Your calls to Mom are becoming more and more frequent as you desperately try to find motivation to make it through.
11. The amount of Netflix you watch is directly proportional to the amount of studying you don’t do.
12. You’ve worn the same sloppy outfit so many times in a row that your friends start to comment on your lack of clean laundry.
13. You tell yourself that if you act calm and collected, then you will become calm and collected.
14. But really you’re just over the semester and ready to go home.
15. As you finish each final exam, you get more and more excited until you’re done with it all and you can FINALLY go home.
While the final stretch of the semester may seem daunting, we know you’ll all make it through! Study hard, take care of yourself, and before you know it, you’ll be home enjoying the relaxing winter break.