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50 Things that Are Better Than Taking Finals

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at BC chapter.

Disclaimer: Please read with caution.  This article is meant to be a funny satire.

Let’s face it. Finals are the worst. 

With finals season quickly approaching, I’ve found myself spending more time thinking about how much I hate finals than actually studying for finals. In my time procrastinating, I’ve put together a list of 50 things that I think would be better than taking final exams:

1. Becoming a vegan

2. Publishing my middle school diary

3. Having blood drawn

4. Watching paint dry

5. Having my parents read all of my text messages

6. Going to a silent movie

7. Being run over by a truck

8. Playing with fire

9. Going to the dentist

10. Forgetting how to breathe

11. Breaking a leg

12. Breaking both legs

13. Being ignored by my crush on Snapchat

14. Giving up my right to vote

15. Sacrificing my first born child

16. Only listening to classical music for the rest of my life

17. Quitting social media

18. Falling down an NYC sewer hole

19. Finding out I’ll never get a boyfriend

20. Shaving my head

21. Being stuck in an airport for 12 hours

22. Running a marathon

23. Permanently losing my voice

24. Cleaning my dorm room

25. Never being able to eat bread again

26. Getting a flu-shot

27. Finding out that I’m allergic to candy

28. Living on Newton Campus for all 4 years at BC

29. Canceling Christmas

30. Falling off of a building

31. Getting back together with my jerky ex-boyfriend

32. Learning to knit

33. Losing $500,000,000 dollars in a bet

34. Tripping down the stairs in front of cute boys

35. Being mugged

36. Getting trapped in a public restroom

37. Drowning

38. Discovering a rat in my room

39. Sitting through a 5-hour lecture

40. Not having eyebrows

41. Getting broken up with

42. Missing Marathon Monday

43. Walking to the state of Florida all the way from Boston College in the rain

44. Falling through a trampoline

45. Never looking at funny memes again

46. Being publically humiliated

47. Knowing the exact day I will die

48. Only wearing the color orange for the rest of my life

49. Being trampled at Modstock

50. Enrolling at BU

Even though we can all agree that finals are horrible, we only have a few weeks left before they’re done! Best of luck to everyone!!!

 

Molly is a senior at Boston College studying Communication and Political Science. She is currently a Campus Corespondent for Her Campus BC and is looking forward to writing articles! She loves to travel, hangout with her friends, and go on adventures. Her mantra is "If you are always trying to be normal, you'll never know how amazing you can be" - Maya Angelou.