Surviving Finals Week: Tips for Success

Listen, your brain during finals week is basically a browser with 47 tabs open,

three of them frozen, and one playing music you cannot find. I watched my roommate

have a full meltdown over a spilled coffee last semester, and honestly, same energy.

Here's what actually helped her and might save you too. Start with the five senses trick when

panic hits. Name five things you see, four you can touch, three you hear,

two you smell, one you taste. Sounds weird but it yanks your brain back to reality.

For the chaos of deadlines, color code everything like your life depends on it because academically

it does. Another friend swears by the Pomodoro method, twenty five minutes