So. It’s that dreadful time of year when you don’t get enough sleep, your health starts deteriorating and you can’t distinguish between each paper you need to write.
Yes, I’m talking about FINALS WEEK.
And if you are a Northwestern student, this is one of THREE hell weeks you have to go through during the course of one school year.
You dread and dread the research papers and finals you need to take as soon as you get the syllabus in September.
But, in true Northwestern student fashion, you seriously procrastinate on all your work and responsibilities.
Reading week comes along and it seems like all sunshine and rainbows for a split second.
Until you realize what is to come.
Monday of finals week, you stake out a nice little nook in Periodicals.
It’s nice and quiet and you are in the zone.
But then the silence starts to get to you.
You start to go a little stir crazy, and you can almost hear the cries coming from the minds of the other students.
Onto Norris you go, in need of some Starbucks and company in your pain.
By Day 4 you are ready to pull your hair out and rip your headphones in half.
You joke about sleeping in the blue cubbies by Norbucks with your friend, only to stop and ask yourselves, “Were we joking though?”
Even listening to Taylor Swift won’t help the intense anxiety you feel when thinking about the 10-page research paper you have due in two days but that is a quarter finished.
You just cannot wait for this week to be over.
But then you remember that just a few short days from now, all will be well with the world. You will be in a Winter Wonderland of no responsibilities. Santa will come like he does every year and family time will be fabulous.
You are almost there! So don’t give up and knock ‘em dead!