Two weeks a year every person in high school has to take finals. Twenty percent of our final grades are put into one test. We work our tails off all semester to just be put down in the end. Finals may be helpful for lower grades, like Ds and Fs, to raise them; but bring down higher grades, like As and Bs, more often than not.

Finals can be the difference between a passing or a failing grade, or even an A and a C as a final grade in a class. An entire semester’s work is put into one stupid test. Finals are the worst; it’s like a teacher torture week.

I feel as though a lot of teachers get just as nervous as we do, they have to make sure all the curriculum is covered and for the majority of their students understand everything.

The final week of the semester is scary; we have up to eight finals to finish in four days. First semester has two weeks until finals week. It’s crunch time.

Teachers are cramming to finish their lessons and students are starting to study like crazy. The week before finals week is stressful. Trying to cram everything you need to know for every test is near impossible.

Over the past three years, finals have been an insane time.  Between teachers freaking out and students having panic attacks it turns out to be an interesting week.

At the end of the week after all the craziness is done, Winter Break starts and all of us at Lewis-Palmer don’t have to return to school until January 8^th of 2013. Once again the semester starts and the routine starts again.