Finals Week, Stress Week-Brianna Morgen

As finals week is quickly approaching, students are beginning to feel the stress and anxiety that is included in the rushed end of the semester work that needs to get done. Finals week normally consists of the lack of sleep, stressful nights at the library, and way too many cups of cold coffee to try and stay awake. The end of the semester is a time for students to reflect on their work that they did throughout the semester but to also try and remember every last date, name, and historical event that they learned in the early months of the year. Many college students are tested on the information that they learned four months previous to the test they are about to take. How likely is it for students to try and retain five months worth of information? But not to mention the average college students takes on a course load that equals about five classes or 15-18 credits? At this point in the semester students are trying everything in their power not to check out or mentally lose all focus that they are trying to withstand to the end of the semester but that’s not what college prepping should be about. College should be about making personal development changes and experiencing things that will benefit them in the future. I understand the important information that one needs to know, but when it comes to classes that will be completely unbeneficial to my future career choices that is when students completely check out. We try absolutely everything that we can not to check out but it is human natural for college students to put all their effort into things that will matter to them later on. Finals week should focus on the personal development of students and not the late night study sessions for classes that hold no important to our careers. All honestly, what would be the different if professors were to hold a “final test” two weeks into the semester or at the end of the semester? The words “finals week” is scary enough to all students but in reality it should be viewed as just another test; another test that reflects the information that we just learned. Finals week is the equivalent to the last week of hell to all students when in reality, no matter how students do on finals week, each of us will eventually find our correct path and answers to what we are suppose to do after college. The path is not always straight but everyone will eventually straighten themselves out in the right direction for them, no matter how they do on finals week.