If it has slipped your mind, or you have purposely tried to block it out, I am here to kindly remind you that finals are right around the corner. There is absolutely nothing you can do about it but face it like the academic beast you truly are on the inside.

We are all guilty of procrastinating; we slack off all semester and it is not until the very end when only one test or paper is left to complete that we truly begin to care about our grades. We calculate our grades we have made thus far to figure out what we need to make on the final in order to make that C- so we do not have to sit through those dreadful lectures and long nights of homework again.  

But why do we continuously do this to ourselves? We know all semester long, even before the semester starts, that it is very imperative we do our best throughout the semester to make the grades we want. I can honestly say if we work hard throughout the semester the week of exams would not be as stressful as we make it seem. Come exam week we get no sleep, coffee is our best friend and our family wonders if they’ll ever hear from us again. It should not be this way; it is not as if exams sneak up on us or we do not know from the beginning that there will be an exam at the end of the semester, we just choose to forget or choose to slack off and then freak out, all while making up thousands of excuses as to why we are doing so badly.

While preparing for finals, I find myself calculating exactly what I need to make to pass my classes; everything depends on the final exam score. Even though before every semester starts I tell myself that I will not put myself in that situation, I always fail, and there is no one to blame but myself.

In the midst of all the chaos of trying to study for exams and stressing out because you feel like you failed yourself, just remember at the end of the day it will all work out. If you are smart enough to get into college, then you are smart enough to figure out how you are going to bring up your grade at the last minute.

It’s time that we face the facts, no matter how well we have things planned out in our heads, by the end of the semester it’s more than likely going to fall apart. You are going to panic and feel like all hope is lost but by the time May 9 comes and goes and a new semester starts, you’ll have forgotten how stressed out you were and how close you were to dropping out. As college students we tend to forget the past and just enjoy the present; we prefer to face the consequences later.