Now that the election is over, the next big event on everyone’s minds is Thanksgiving (or for some of us, Christmas, and we won’t lie and say we haven’t already been watching Christmas movies).

Anyway, we at The Daily Eastern News will be grateful to have a week off, and we’re sure most of the student body is now also waiting in eager anticipation for that break.

The problem is, Thanksgiving break is still over a week away. It might close enough to taste, but it is far enough away to make next week one of the most annoying weeks of the entire semester.

At this point, major deadlines are biting at our heels. A lot of us are falling behind, we’re losing motivation and we have no concept of what being fully awake is anymore.

But this is the time that we should be especially attentive and try hard as students.

It is crucial to go to class and pay attention because this is when most students have a lot of work to do, whether it is cumulative tests, pre-Thanksgiving papers or huge projects.

We need to make sure we’re trying to stay on top of things and retaining information. Otherwise, our future selves will regret cutting corners when we’re studying for finals.

It is hard, but there is value in what we are taught, and the material we are learning now is no less important than what we were learning at the beginning of the semester when we were so happy and full of life.

Everything likes to malfunction at this point in the semester and make things extra hard on all of us. It’s unfortunate, but it happens. We could either let the problems and stress consume us, or we could try to make the most out of it.

Besides, all of these malfunctions strengthen our ability to be flexible and handle whatever problems we encounter in the future. We’ve made it this far handling all our duties, what’s another stressful couple of weeks?

Then we’ll finally get a chance to relax, enjoy the presence of our families, and be thankful for what we accomplished.

We’re so close to Thanksgiving break. Surely we can make it one more week.