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The 9 Stages of Finals Season, as Told by ‘Rick and Morty’

Sophia Ahmed
Darcy Schild
This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at UFL chapter.

Every student’s favorite time of the semester is finals season, when our blood is replaced with coffee and nobody gets a healthy amount of sleep. It is fast approaching here at UF, and what people don’t realize is that there are different stages of coping with finals season. So I figured, I should prepare my peers for these stages, and I figured I would use one of the most educational shows on media right now – “Rick and Morty.” Listen, this show expresses so many situations to where it basically encompasses life and has taught me more than my entire grade school experience.

Get ready to get schwifty with this finals season survival guide.

1.  Optimism

You start off finals season bright eyed and filled with hope. You think, “I’m gonna survive finals season!”. You will come to bite those words later.

2. Overestimation

As you start finals season, you think that you’ll basically live in the library, have efficient study methods, and expect more than what you can actually produce. In all reality, you might cave and end up playing games on your phone or checking out new content at Her Campus UFL. (Shameless plug, I know.)

3. Confidence before your first exam

4. That feeling of confidence after your first exam

5. Panic because there’s more exams

The name says it all. Get riggity riggity wrecked.

6. Adrenaline from cramming

SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT EXAMS is what you’ll be screaming at this point.

7. How you feel when you realize this is only the beginning

*Meeseeks by nature as a species doesn’t want to exist in general*

8. The feeling you get during your entire last exam

9. The relief you get when all of your exams are done

Wubba lubba dub dub my friends, and happy finals season. 

Sophia is a self-proclaimed potato on the TAMU campus. She is a third-year Materials Science and Engineering Ph.D. student that loves being in Her Campus. She loves it so much that she continued being a member into grad school. This is her second year writing with HC TAMU, but wrote for HC UFL from Fall 2017 - Spring 2020 when she was an undergrad at the University of Florida. Sophia loves writing about social justice topics, science, and loves showcasing her dog, Banshee (ig: @BansheeTheBeauty). Follow her on insta, twitter, and snapchat @divasophia97.
Darcy Schild is a University of Florida junior majoring in journalism. She's the Editor-in-Chief of Her Campus UFL and was previously a Her Campus national section editor. She spent Summer 2017 as an Editorial Intern at HC headquarters in Boston, where she oversaw the "How She Got There" section and wrote and edited feature articles and news blogs. She also helped create the weekly Her Campus Instagram Story series, Informed AF. Follow her on Twitter and on her blog, The Darcy Diaries.