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Signs You’re So Done With This Semester

Whether you’re a senior or a freshman in college, you understand the dreaded feeling of trying to get through the last month of the semester before finals exams- and summer. It is definitely not fun to sit through class and try to learn when class is the last thing on your mind. It’s a real struggle, and you are not alone. If this sounds anything like you, we’ve got 18 signs that you are just so done with this semester. 18. You’re sitting in class day dreaming about summer concerts and beach trips. 17. You show up for math tutoring, but then spend the first 20 minutes on the computer looking up resorts on tropical islands to go on vacation to in the summer. 16. Listening to one more pointless lecture from your professor makes you want to consider jumping out of the window.15. You start to countdown how many more classes you have

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5 Painfully True Facts High School Students Should Know About College

As a college freshman who is just about to end my first year, I am proud to say I survived. Looking back at high school, I never quite understood my teachers when they’d tell us college wasn’t going to be a walk in the park. I used to see tons of tweets from my friends who had graduated about their all nighters the week before finals, but I thought that would be the only big adjustment from high school to college life. Oh man, was I wrong. Here are 5 things all high school students should know about college: 5.) No more cheat sheets. In high school it was easy to get by with A’s and B’s without studying at all. Sure, there was the occasional “big test” you made a few flash cards for, but even that was rare. Senior year of high school, I graduated with all A’s after doing