Winding Up, Winding Down

We have about a month left in the school year, which is at once the best and worst time of the year.

Everyone sees the light at the end of the tunnel, but then they look everywhere around and they see nothing but tunnel. On one hand, the students have developed study skills, understand their teachers, and have gained proficiency. On the other hand, they're tired, stressed, and terrified of final exams. And at the same time they can't wait until summer.

When I was at college I studiously (and this is the only sense in which you could use the word 'studious' in relation to me in college) avoided classes with final papers instead of exams. Final exams are much better because they get done when or not you want them to. Papers, and I've made a lifelong study of this, never get done until you sit down and write them.

My only advice here is to take it a day at a time and understand that Finals will eventually be over, regardless of what you do. Once you've prepared as best you can, let up on yourself, take the exam, and be done.