It is the time of the year that getting homework done is becoming harder and harder.  You tell yourself, “I will just take a 15 minute nap” and then you wake up and your 15 minute nap became a three hour nap. And even after that three hour nap you are still tired. Somehow your bed gets more comfortable than ever, that not even the five alarms that you set up on your phone with five minutes of difference each, wakes you up.  Yeah, I know the last month of school is the toughest.

There is a part of your brain that thinks that summer is already here and it is already putting some tanning lotion on and singing there is no need to worry. And yet, the other part of your brain is trying to pull off that four page paper that is due in a couple of hours. I couldn’t come up with a funny name for this weird phase of the semester so I will just call it the “end of the semester syndrome.”  This syndrome takes advantage of tired college students who are less than a month from finishing school. No one is immune to it, not even professors, some of them admit it and others just try to deny it, but students are not that easy to fool.

Unfortunately, if you got, you got it, and the only thing you can do is hope for the best.  It really does not matter which year you’re in, from freshmen to senior, it will hit you.  You get better at controlling the symptoms with the years, like avoiding eye contact with your bed or anything living or nonliving thing that can distract you.  There is no miracle cure for this, the only thing you need to do is give yourself a couple of slaps on the face and get your work done.