Done with everything class-related as of Friday, and then it’s as much research as I can do in the next week and a half. I can’t wait.
This happened in all of my classes as well. Thursday is the last class day and I think they all just want to force us to show up, two instructors have added papers, one decided to do a quiz, and the last one is an independent study class that was supposed to meet for the last time yesterday but as we were leaving the instructor said ok, I’ll email everyone about a meeting date in January…January? We’re on break in January, the class is OVER, let it goooo.
Ahhh, the start of a new week. Fresh assignments. Conflicting test times. I love college.
My government professor has shot to the top of my 
list. His assignment for the week is to submit anything we’ve missed and study for the final. I haven’t missed anything and I have half a chapter to read to finish studying so thank you Mr. Gov’t Professor for making my life a little easier this week.
Break? Ha.
My last exam is on the 20th. After that, I have a huge stack of reading, a translation exam to prepare for, and several research projects that I need to make progress on. In some ways, it will be a relief when classes start again.
Last day is December 17th. I’m dying. I’ve never had a finals period like this.
I have three papers due in the hardest class EVER (child welfare policy, taught by the Dean of my school and co-taught by a 20-year veteran of Capitol Hill. No pressure or anything!) A 5-minute formal testimony just for the cherry on top.
I have a final exam in my research course.
I have a full grant proposal.
I have a 15 page paper on Poverty, Welfare and Work.
That’s 5 (mostly very difficult) papers, 1 presentation, and one final exam… in one week.
Oh, and just for fun, my internship (24 hours a week) has been absolutely insane. I had to work through lunch yesterday. Please kill me now.
I have to write 30-40 pages by this time next week. It’s not a lot, but I’ve been putting it off for close to a month now, really just dreading starting it. Other than that I’ve got a couple of easy finals. It’s not the most difficult semester I’ve had, but it’s been the most nerve-wracking. I’ll be relieved when everything is done.
Finished both my research papers this week. Next week, there are smaller, non research papers, which I’m almost done with. One week from today I’ll be done!
Well, I just had my final final today and I’m very glad to be done with it. It wasn’t nearly as hard as some of the others here, but I’m insanely lazy so I had to try and cram 16 weeks of French in five hours.
It didn’t go to well.
What made it more difficult was that I had finished cramming for my comparative religion class the day before, so my head was full of Sanskrit terms and their meanings.
Shelf exam on the 17th, I’ll be cramming like a madman until then… And trying to find time to cram while still going to all my clinic duties and classes and such…
Finals this semester have been a killer.
A short presentation
A 2,000 word research paper
A 17 page research paper
Another 8 page paper
A 4,000 critical analysis paper
I’m 1,8888 words into the last paper (due Friday) and calling it a night.
Tomorrow’s my last day of teaching, and my classes sit their final exams next Monday and Tuesday. I’m still grading the final research papers, which only came in over the last few days. Hopefully i’ll be done with them by the time the exams are done, and then all i’ll have to do is grade the exams and submit the grades.
My wife and i are leaving for San Francisco the day after the final exam, so i’ll be doing my grading at a little cafe in North Beach. If you have to do something as mind-numbing and excruciating as grading exams, it’s nice to at least be in cozy surroundings.
I agree with what everyone else has said: this is completely inexcusable. I’d think about complaining to the head of department or the Dean if i were you.
Last day of class for me is the sixteenth. None of my classes have sit-down finals: it’s all projects that we’ve been working on for at least the last two weeks - in one case, we’ve been working on it since before mid-terms. One of them is essentially finished (though it could use some polish), one is about 75% there, and the other two I haven’t started yet. I’m planning on barricading myself in my apartment this weekend and not leaving until everything’s done, or my Tuesday class starts, whichever comes first.
Anyone else get frustrated whenever a teacher calls a test a midterm when it isn’t in the middle of the term?
It’s probably just me, but I hated whenever my sociology teacher would say, “Next class is the fifth midterm.” In my head I’m screaming, “No, it’s a test. There’s only one midterm, and that’s in the middle of the term, hence its name:mid-term.”
Last day of classes, Dec. 17. Last final: Dec 20. Thank you, U of M(innesota) and you silly offset semesters.
I’ve got two more midterms (for certain values of mid-). One tomorrow, one Tuesday. After that, four finals in four days, and I’m done with this stupid, painful semester. Maybe I’ll pass all my classes and not have to repeat.
I got that paper finished and submitted with 20 minutes to spare. Except for about half a page that I did yesterday, I did the whole thing today. It sounded fairly comprehensible when I read it through for the last time.
Now, on to a 6-day study marathon for advanced pathophysiology, interrupted by 4 days of 12-hour shifts. Should be… fun.
Last final in 9 1/2 hours! Have I studied?
Oh, HELL no.
I’m two problems away from being done with my take-home final for my partial differential equations class. A few hours tomorrow, and I’m done for the quarter.
Well, I took a mental health day yesterday to prepare for the upcoming week. Of course, I thought yesterday was Tuesday so now I’m down 2 days instead of 1. I am so organized. 
There are some benefits to being a first semester freshman though…my work load is nothing compared to what you guys have to do. I’m sorry you all have so much work to do but I’m grateful for you mentioning it. I’m feeling less stressed about my own stuff now because it could be a whole lot worse.
Yikes, good luck. I meant to ask you this a while ago in another thread where you mentioned your schoolwork–what are you studying? Just curious! 
International development.
I did a presentation on the failure of a dam project in Bangladesh, a 2,000 word micro-political analysis on the Mbororo of Cameroon, a 17 statistics paper analyzing data linking conflicts in Chad, Sudan, Central African Republic and Congo, an 8 page rapid rural assessment plan for the San in Botswana and finishing with a theory-heavy 4,000 word policy brief analyzing the effects of foreign aid in Chad.
I’ve got 2,200 words to write on that last one tonight. It’s 8 PM and I’m beat- I started a new job today. Time for coffee, it’s gonna be an all nighter.