Last Option of Finals Week

After all of spring semester and Little 5, finals week is now almost here. Despite the diversity among students at IU, the one thing we can all agree on is that finals week is the worst week of the year. 

If you are one of those lucky people, or perhaps a senior, who has barely anything going on next week, don’t tell everyone about how easy your week is because they will all end up hating you. Outside of the fortunate few who have two or fewer finals next week, there are really two groups left.

First, you have the average student who has around three finals and maybe a paper due.  Now, if you aren’t like most students at IU, you have somehow managed not to procrastinate, and you don’t have to catch up on an entire semester’s worth of readings for three or more classes. You probably aren’t too worried about your finals. 

More likely, you are like me and haven’t opened your ridiculously expensive textbooks and have just gone to class for the attendance points. 

Because this is probably the case, my advice is to start taking advantage of the long hours that Herman B Wells Library is open for. As we all know, it can be impossible to actually get yourself to Wells, so maybe try using Chick-fil-A as your motivation. In addition, it isn’t hard to find Red Bull or Monster somewhere on campus to keep your all-nighters going.

The other group on campus this week consists of the people who have at least five finals or have decided to take the impossibly hard science classes. If you are one of these people, my advice is to never stop studying, and start praying that your professors have a shred of mercy when they grade your finals. 

If by the end of next week you realize your finals were a total disaster, or you just decided not to study at all, there is always one last option: Log onto OneStart as quickly as possible, and change your password if your parents have access to your grades.