As finals week approaches, we’re all mentally preparing ourselves for caffeine-filled, sleepless nights of cramming and crying. Funnily enough, the stressed surgeons of Grey-Sloan Memorial Hospital, formerly known as Seattle Grace Hospital, are extremely relatable to college students during finals. Here’s how our favorite surgeons would describe the hell that is finals week.
1. During the previous week, everything seems fine…but there’s a strange sense coming over campus…finals week is here.
2. As the week begins you’re turning you into an anxiety ridden monster.
You’ve bitten off your nails, have a mountainous to-do list, and emails out the wahzoo. You’re preparing to fail in your eyes. There’s never enough time in the all-nighter to get all the knowledge you need. MCATs, intern exams, boards… Dr. O’Malley and the other doctors have experienced crazed studying and test anxiety.
3. Procrastination should be your new middle name.
Everyone knows the week before finals week is just as nerve wrenching as finals week itself. The projects, papers, and studying piles up and boom, you’re drowning. Just remember that neurosurgeons put things off and get stuck too, there is hope!!
4.During study groups, your patience begins to wear thin.
There’s no food, that kid hasn’t said anything in over an hour, someone didn’t show up at all. During this stressful time, everyone’s patients is reaaaaaaaallly thin. Meredith and her fellow surgeons all know what it’s like to be pushed to the breaking point. Like when someone forgets your coffee and muffin they promised.
5. Before the panic sets in, everything seems fine, until it’s not.
While surgeons must stay up all night figuring out how to save their patient’s life, we’re up at night going through a mountain of flashcards trying to save our GPA. Your grades. Your GPA. Your future.”OMG,” your college career is flashing before your eyes.
6. Diets, personal hygiene and manners are completely gone.
Binge eating things from vending machines or late night gas station runs. Red Bull and coffee are pulsating through your veins as you pull your 3rd all-nighter in a row. Dr. Yang knows how you feel when multiple traumas and surgeries come in.
7. After your exams, you consider dropping out.
Sex Ed teacher? Maybe a sugar daddy? Anything is better than this right? Sometimes even the professionals can get all worked up about giving up. Dr. Kepner didn’t pass her boards the first time around, got fired, even went back to work on the farm. But just like you can, she made a comeback and did in fact CRUSH her boards!
8. When you feel down, look at inspirational gifs of Mcdreamy or Karev and you’ll never give up on anything! *insert heart eye emojis here.*
9. After you survive what seems to be the hardest week of your life, you do what every college student or surgeon would do. Drink. A lot.
Happy or sad, it does the trick. “Mer” and Cristina also suggest 30 second dance parties!