With finals week around the corner that means the end of the semester is nearing and students are over it.

Students have come out of their food comas from the Thanksgiving holiday, but not necessarily are ready to finish the remainder of the semester, but The Daily EasternNews urges everyone to keep their health and spirits up.

Many students may use caffeine and all sorts of high energy related beverages in an attempt to stay awake, but it’s not even finals week yet.

Now is the best time to get plenty rest and eat well in order to prepare for the upcoming finals week.

These weeks are also meant to finish up any remaining assignments because, again, now is the time to prepare for the dreaded week of seemingly endless exams and papers.

The worst is yet to come.

However, for those students who have been keeping up with their grades and assignments, don’t stress too much over the finals.

Final exams and assignments are usually 20 percent of their grade, which isn’t much when calculating all of the other assignments and projects that have accumulated going into the dreaded test week.

Most courses weigh heavily on the weekly assignments because they are sometimes more important than the final, but that doesn’t mean the exam should be ignored.

Chances are the grade a student has going into the final will be the same when they finish.

If your grade is not what you expected going into finals week, going to office hours for the first time at the end of the semester may not be something that can offer help.

Do not let this thought discourage you though.

If you haven’t started studying that is not a good way to start off finals week, but beginning right after reading this edit will still give you almost two full weeks, which can prove to be helpful in the end.

It doesn’t take long to study for finals, but beginning the week of finals could prove to be ineffective especially if exams are Monday through Friday of that week. Many students have more than one exam a day and some are even back to back, so spending 30 minutes to an hour a night studying could mean the difference from not knowing the material, to understanding just enough to get a passing grade.

That being said, students should use these last few weeks of fall semester to maintain their grades rather than try and salvage them. Let’s be honest, two weeks wont do anything to fix a failing grade. C’s may get degrees, but D’s are not the bee’s knees.