The Third Week

            After the first week of school comes to an end, it leaves you feeling pretty comfortable. You have met your professors and classmates, found your way around, and even developed a normal routine of things to do for the school year. Thus, you start to feel confident. Then, the second week hits. In the second week, your workload seems to increase slightly; however, you still feel confident. Next, the third week of school hits. This is when everything changes. Your life, once again, becomes incredibly stressful. In the third week, it becomes apparent that your sense of confidence was a false sense. The third week is incredibly stressful because of all the work you now have to do.

            It is during the third week, when you normally start to study for your upcoming exams. This takes up a lot of your time; however, you are still confident that you can get it all done. Then, you happen to look at your syllabus and realize that all of your exams just happen to fall on the same day. This is when that sense of confidence, unfortunately leaves you. You are now in a state of panic. You do not know how you are going to finish all of your studying in time for the exams. You start to think that you are going to fail all of your classes, which is bad for several reasons. First, if you fail a class, you may not be able to continue in your major, which ruins your entire career, and thus your life. Second, you wasted $20,000.00 on tuition. This for obvious reasons is a terrible feeling. However, just when you thought that your were going to fail all of your exams, you ace them all. This makes you feel a lot better. You can finally breathe a sigh of relief and sleep at night. However, you decide to check your course syllabus one last time before you go to bed, so that you can be sure that there is not anything else that you need to study for. It is then that you realize, that you have three essays due tomorrow. With all of the studying you have been doing, you had totally forgotten about them. Then, the feeling that you are going to fail everything comes back. Now, you must stay up all night, in order to finish all three essays. When you finally do go to bed, your alarm clock rings five minutes after you lay down, and you must get up for school again.

            In conclusion, while the first week of school is bad, it does not even compare to the third week. After three weeks, you are already counting the days until Spring Break. That break cannot come soon enough. When, it finally does come, you start counting the days until Summer Break. However, while the third week was bad, you know that the fourth week will be even worse. You have now lost all confidence and are back at square one.