Finals? what? worst 2 weeks ever? who said that? more coffee??

This is definitely a rough couple of weeks for everyone, and I really think that it is weeks like this that make me hate college and make me really think about if I'm even really learning anything during the dreaded FINALS. It is supposed to be the time to use all of our knowledge from the semester and show off what we know, but all I'm doing is just trying to get through it! I don't feel proud of my papers after I write them- I just start on the next one before I fall asleep in B1 and make a fool of myself. I think that sometimes teachers forget how hard it is to get sleep, eat right, go to the gym, and do their zillion assignments while still being able to partake in normal every day conversation and not fall asleep at the wheel. How are we supposed to turn in our best academic work for every single class? It's impossible to do everything and do it well! I think that there should be more assignments that are geared towards telling our teachers what we found interesting in the class and what we would like to talk a bit more about. I think that our final project in this class is nice because it is so open; we can take something that interested us and do some more research on it. It gives us the opportunity to put a little bit of ourselves into our final, and I wish I could do something like that in many of my other classes!