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What To Do the Night Before Your First Final but Your Zodiac Is Saying “You Can’t Force Yourself To Create When You’re Burnt Out”

  1. Get in the longest line on campus and redeem your swipes at JJs. Allow yourself to mentally spiral down that staircase, then open up the Google Docs app on your phone and write no more than two incoherent sentences.
  2. Sit on Low Steps. Inhale the fumes of seven different Hooda Halal orders and other funky substances wafting in the air that are guaranteed to get your creative juices flowing. Continue to “lock in” even if it starts to rain and watch as your keyboard gets slowly damaged.
  3. Take that everything shower that you’ve been telling people you would take for weeks. May as well do your laundry while you’re at it. Separate your blacks, colors, and whites, and do those separate loads on different floors of your freshman dorm. 
  4. Text your friends and cancel dinner plans because you didn’t lock in enough today. You were in Butler for ten hours but spent most of your time doing Buzzfeed quizzes. At this point in the semester, check if your “Am I Gay?” quiz results have changed. For every quiz you take, switch back to your essay writing tab, only to not type anything. 
  5. Place your Amazon Christmas gift delivery on December 20th and make sure it is delivered to your dorm instead of home. 
  6. Finally, reach out to your therapist because that “Am I Gay?” quiz sent you into a spiral and now you DEFINITELY can’t focus.
  7. Science says cramming doesn’t work, so shut that laptop and head to bed. Sleep a restful eight hours and you’ll be all ready to wing your final!