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18 Stages of Studying for Comps as Told By Spongebob

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

1. Understanding the feeling of complete terror

2. Ignoring everything for as long as possible

3. Taking a break for snacks

4. Compiling years of notes from EVERY class in your major

5. Realizing you’ve lost some of your notes

6. Crying at the pile of notes from EVERY class in your major

7. Taking a break for snacks

8. Laughing hysterically at the pile of notes from every class in your major

9. Bracing yourself and then finally sorting through the pile

10. Realizing how much information you don’t remember

11. Taking a break for snacks

12. Making the mother of all study guides

13. Thanking the Sewanee angels that we don’t pay for printing as you print your mother of all study guides

14. Falling asleep as your attempt to read your mother of all study guides

15. Taking a break for snacks

16. Quizzing your friends and realizing how much more information you have to learn

17. Studying, quizzing, sleeping, taking a break for snacks, and repeating until Comprehensive Exam Time

18. Finishing your Comp!

Good Luck to everyone Comping this week!!

Sarah Christie, C'16, is a biochemistry major and French minor at Sewanee. When she graduates, she wants to go to vet school. She loves dancing like nobody is watching, meeting new people, eating Pub food, riding horses, and writing for Her Campus.