The stress-induced adult acne is on full blast. Bottles of wine are flying off the shelves at the ever famous penny wine sale.

New 24/7 library hours are here. The long nights of last minute cramming and pumping out 15-page papers in 24 hours are now a regular occurrence.

Calculating minimum scores needed in order to pass and drinking drastically unhealthy amounts of caffeine. All of these are telltale signs of horrendously stressful finals week.

In order to decrease the stress induced by the imminent nightmare that is finals week, a “dead week” was created. Dead week is a week where there are no classes and no projects, papers or assignments due.

Apparently, this thing that is “dead week” is just an urban legend.

In reality, I have three papers, two exams, one project, two assignments and 13 mandatory classes. All of this is assigned in order to “prepare” me for finals. According to my professors, at least.

Instead, what you have done is the exact opposite of preparing me for the week from hell.

Dead week needs to be dead so we can study, focus on our assignments and succeed instead of being set up to fail. Professors don’t seem to understand that by assigning all of this the week before the semester is over is not “lightening my homework load.” Especially when you all seem to have the same magical idea.

“If ‘dead’ week isn’t going to be dead, as it should, then why don’t we just call it finals week and get it over with?” first-year student Allie said when speaking about her first impending finals season.

Don’t get me wrong, enforcing dead week won’t solve all of our stress related, finals problems.

Allowing students to actually use this week of the semester as productively as possible would genuinely decrease the amount of stress experienced. Therefore, increasing grades, which lead to boosting the university’s status.