A few things come to mind when someone finals, suh as stress, cramming, tests, GPA, and a loss of a social life. Finals are a time when some students are pushing themselves through all nighters to cram that last bit of information into their heads.

How many times has this happened to you? You wake up on a sunny Monday afternoon on winter break, and as you lie in your nice, warm, and comfy bed, you think of what to do. Should I go out and chill with my friends or should I get started on my homework and study for my finals? Finals are coming up, but I still have a whole week to study.

Winter Break is a time when some students take the time out of their two weeks of partying to just sit down and study for finals. While some others take that time and procrastinate and have that “I’ll do it tomorrow, I still have a whole week” attitude and completely waste their break. As a result, you actually become less knowledgeable because you forgot everything that was taught from before.

I know that this happens because it has happened to me. I would think, “I will study tomorrow, I still have one week left,” and that one week goes by so quickly because I’m having so much fun. When Sunday comes I rush to do all my studying and actually accomplished nothing with that studying.

Well, on the other hand, there are many people who study their whole break away. Wasting one of the most loved breaks of constantly procrastinating that they would go out once they’re done studying, but soon find out that the studying would take longer than expected. When they finally find a day to go out and have fun its usually a too late, they find out that some of their friends procrastinated and are just studying now.

If we move the finals up to before Winter Break, we would have less to worry about during the break. Since nobody really studies over break, why doesn’t the administrator just move the tests before to force the student to study and not rely on the break to study.

I think that having the finals after the winter break creates more stress, whether it’s stressing from studying too little with the impending finals getting closer; or from, being mad at yourself for not chilling out with your friends enough. Now you feel like you missed out on all the fun they had and creating more stress.

Who doesn’t want less to worry about while they relax on the couch with friends eating so much junk food that they get diabetes at a young age? Who wants to worry about school while on a break where they just receive gifts and basically do nothing the whole day?