No one likes finals week. There is always way too much to do and no time to do it. You need 12 hours of sleep to rest your brain from the 12 straight hours of studying you’ve been doing but no one actually gets the sleep they need during these weeks. The reward felt though after this week is unbeatable. After the uphill battle of studying for all your tests and balancing your time between everything, you get to shower away all the stress and breathe easy again. You get to see the grade you worked so hard for at the end of the semester and pat yourself on the back knowing you worked your hardest for this and you did good.
At least, that’s what I keep telling myself. Lucky I have friends that will go to happy coffee shops with me or sit on a dock by the lake to work on my essay with me on a beautiful day to help keep my stress levels down. There is never enough coffee or time to get through finals week, but you have to find time for happy study breaks that make all the hard work worth it.
These classes have definitely pushed me more than I expected. As I’ve said before, studying in Sweden is very different than studying in Arkansas or basically any school in the states. But I know that at the end of this experience I will be a harder worker and have even more drive to succeed. I’ve been pushed to my limits and broken them because I know I can continue to work hard. I’m so thankful to be here studying (even when I have tests I’m dreading).
But at the end of this week, I’ll be on a flight to Italy, so I’m not really complaining.
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Read more about the U of A exchange program with Jönköping University's School of Business at http://studyabroad.uark.edu/exchange/wcobjibs
