The Nightmare of it All

Before coming to college, I had been warned by an older cousin and of course TV that college had a thing called finals week which was essentially just full of pain and misery and all night cram-fests.  Needless to say, I was terrified for my first finals week experience.  But, this being my third finals week experience, I now know there is something much worse than finals week.

The week before finals week.

Finals week in itself isn't too bad.  Not every class you take has a "final" and I've been really lucky and have only ever had one test in a day.  This gives me nearly 24 hours to study (more if I wasn't a procrastinator), and that is good.

But the week before finals week is not as merciful.  It is during this period of 5 consecutive school days that all heck seems to break loose.  Every teacher you have ever had is cramming whatever they hadn't been able to assign/ teach down your throat in a mad effort to prepare you for whats coming.  This means a lot of homework, a lot of tests and a lot of stress.

This week (being the week before finals week) I have had 4 major tests (They couldn't just smoosh all the information into the final next week?), 1 math project, a history paper (8 pages with footnotes.  It almost killed me.), and plenty more.  Long story short, almost every ounce of time that I have had in the past few days has gone into one of three things; studying, homework and doing my best not to procrastinate, which for me, almost takes up more energy than the other two.

As a result, my roommate has come back to the apartment more than once this week to find me completely unconscious on my bed with my headphones on, my computer open and in front of me and my cell phone still in my hand because I had been playing a word game on it right up to the point where I crashed.

The only thing that has gotten me through this week is the bleak knowledge that resistance is futile, and in exactly a week from today, I will finally be home with my family with actual food instead of the processed crap I've been eating, and just in time for the holiday traditions to kick into full gear.

On a brighter note, after finishing all I had energy to do today, I was on YouTube and found this video.

I was procrastinating a little bit when he called me out on it.  Oh well, Calculus can wait till the morning.  Right?