1. When all the professors schedule tests on the same day.
2. And their dates inch closer and closer.
3. When you have so much to do that you get home and just sleep.
4. And you contemplate dropping out of college.
5. When you finally get your game face on and start studying a day before exams.
6. How your desk looks after you pull an all-nighter.
7. When you and your crew give up and open a bottle of wine.
8. When you wake up on exam day and charge into the classroom.
Liberty Leading the People, Eugene Delacroix, 1830
9. Then you read the first question and don’t understand anything.
Boy Bitten by a Lizard, Caravaggio, 1593-1594
10. So you sit there and contemplate how to become a millionaire overnight.
Portrait of Dr. Gachet, Vincent Van Gogh, 1890
11. The look you get when your friend gets an A and doesn’t even study.
12. Or when you get to class and realize there is an exam you’d forgotten about.
The Scream, Edvard Munch, 1893
13. The freedom when you are done with your tests.
La Danse, Henri Matisse, 1910
14. How you look when you know you aced your exams.
Louis XIV, Hyacinthe Rigaud, 1701
15. The jangueo afterwards regardless of the results.