37 Thoughts You Will Have While Studying For Finals

With the end of the year approaching and finals at the corner of every street, we can not help but wonder about the days when school’s finally over and we are all back home with our families and/or friends enjoying the holidays. We are all pretty much on the same boat when it comes to school at the end of the semester/year, so I get the feeling that life in general is just a giant struggle and that attempting to concentrate while studying for finals around this time of the year is quite a task. I understand that this season makes it particularly hard to concentrate on exams and final projects, to be healthy and exercise, and to worry about anything that is not what will come after school is over. Because, let us be honest, the only thing we really want to do is go home, eat, and celebrate the coming of a new year (and the ending of this year for that matter). So here I will leave you with a list of very basic but certainly realistic thoughts that we all think about when we think about the holidays, the ending of the Fall semester, and the GPA we will have after it is over (wether that GPA is a floating on a boat or drowning in the middle of the sea)… or thoughts that go through our minds when procrastination is at its finest:

1. How is it December already? It was Summer yesterday.
2. I understand that this is Florida but come on, why are we not joining the “cold weather party”?
3. Thanksgiving break totally threw me off, I can not do school right now.
4. Wait, thanksgiving is over already?! Well, at least I am doing good in my classes…
5. Well, at least I am not failing…
6. …completely, I am not completely failing.
7. It is only 5pm, I got this, I have all night to study.
8. I am just gonna try and save my grades this semester by pulling an all nighter; even if it is mathematically impossible for me to pass the class, I will pretend it is.
9. I should go to Strozier (but not really, I hate studying there).
10. I only need a 75 to pass the class. So, if I need to study 10 chapters, I can do 7 and a half and I will be fine. Damn, I am really good at math.
11. Everyone is in a relationship and I am just here like “I love pizza.”
12. I need a haircut… Oh, I am gonna do a make-over over the winter break.
13. I miss my dog.
14. I should get a dog so I am not binge watching Netflix by myself all the time.
15. I need coffee.
16. I don’t have money.
17. I don’t have time.
18. I can not wait to go home and eat my struggles away during the holidays (because turkey day was not enough, I need to go back already).
19. My family cooks so good…
20. I should learn to cook.
21. Why do I always think about food related stuff?
22. I am a fat-ass.
23. I am just gonna accept the fact that I am the definition of #NoShapeNovember/December.
24. I should do laundry (but not really, I will just wait until I go back home so mom can help me out with that one).
25. Nah, not really. I am gonna rock my pajamas to school all week.
26. Cumulative final? Really? I hate my professors.
27. None of this stuff sounds familiar, I swear I go to class. Well, I have been to class…
28. I should probably change my major.
29. Where is my phone? (every 10 seconds).
30. Dude, life is weird. I am no where near where I started this year… (but seriously, I bet you never imagined you were gonna be standing where you are today, nor meet the people that you have met over the past year).
31. I should go to the gym, I have not been this week yet… more so, I have not been since four months ago. I am a disaster.
32. I promise myself I will eat healthy and exercise after the break (but not really)
33. Maybe a glass of wine will help me concentrate. (DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS: one glass will put you to sleep, one more will lead you to another).
34. I am hungry. I can not study with an empty stomach. Let’s order Jimmy John’s, or should I drive to Chick Fil A? Or Chipotle, ugh I LOVE FOOD.
35. Why is finals week a thing?
36. Ok, I need a break. I am gonna watch one episode of The Black List (or *insert current TV show that you are obsessed with*) and then I will go back to studying. DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS EITHER, it is a trap… one episode is not enough, Netflix is for binge watching.
37. I should start studying… NOW.