This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Hollins chapter.
- Gradual acceptance that 3 hours of sleep a night is a blessing.
- Eventual acceptance that those 3 hours will occur in half hour blocks throughout the middle of the day.
- Awareness of the smell of misery that permeates the air in examination rooms.
- Total loss of appetite/intense physical need of steady doses of caffeine.
- Sudden disregard for personal hygiene, lasting 4-8 days
- Deep emotional attachment to favorite pair of pajama pants, lasting 4-8 days.
- Super-human ability to procrastinate for at least three consecutive hours.
- Sudden interest in menial tasks including but not limited to: dusting under the bed; redoing loads of laundry; alphabetizing pile of sell-back books; reorganization of entire iTunes library.
- Listlessness when considering grades received on final projects.
- Inability to access both long and short term memory during exam sessions.