Pizza bagel count: 6

Crying count: 8

Buzzfeed quizzes taken: 13

Seinfeld seasons watched: 4

Well that just about sums up my week so far. This editorial is dedicated to you, stressed students of America.

Hi, I’m Sam. My hobbies include struggling to wake up in the morning and crying about schoolwork.

I’ll be honest, I’ve procrastinated a lot this semester…and last semester…and the semester before that…and every other semester of school since the 4th grade.  In fact, this is an assignment for which I’ve procrastinated this entire quarter for my Journalism class.

Life was simpler in the 4th grade. I didn’t understand physics or calculus, and I was pretty ok with that. Well I still don’t understand physics or calculus, but now I’m supposed to.

Well I’ve put off doing a lot of things including (you guessed it) studying for finals. I know I’m not alone. But It’s crunch time. Let’s do this.

There’s no changing our workload, so what CAN we do?

Well first we’ve got to lay out all the stuff we have to do. EXAMPLE: I need to memorize vocab for Spanish, re-learn the “Golden Sheet” with all of the trigonometric equations, go over my notes in all of my classes, do some practice problems for calc and physics, re-read the short stories in English and try to access the part of my brain that is currently storing my summer work.

After that, we’ve got to divide it up because a recent study that I just made up found that 0% of people can stare at a Calc textbook for 4 hours straight and expect to retain any sort of information after the first hour and a half or so.

After we divide it up, we’ve got to (hear me out) DO OUR WORK. I know. What a profound statement. We need to take a page out of Nike’s book and Just Do It. EXAMPLE: I am currently doing my journalism homework.

Am I upset I’ve put everything off till the last minute? Yes. Will I do it again? Absolutely.