May usually looks good on the outside. There is sunshine and the beginning blooms of flowers. For students, though, it’s secretly the most exhausting month of the entire school year. It’s the point where we begin to run on low battery mode and yet the workload gets harder. Teachers rush to finish grades and put out a final. Tests pile up, and suddenly you have 14 missing assignments and no time to do them all.
The weather we are currently having doesn’t help either. Warm days make the class feel stuffy, and everyone is jittery, wanting to be in the sunshine. Currently, we are having more gray and rainy days, though, which makes my seasonal depression flare up and everything gets worse for us.
The hallways help paint the picture of laziness. Iced coffees everywhere, backpacks lighter and half-zipped, people dressing like Adam Sandler. This is the month where motivation drops but expectations rise.
There’s also a weird emotional war. The stress about grades is high, the excitement for school is low, and the feeling that the year is ending faster than we thought is sneaking up on us. Seniors, like me, become mentally checked out, and just want finals to be done. Underclassmen are tired, and everyone is counting down the days.
May isn’t dramatic or chaotic. It’s just draining. This is the month where we all have to try to finish strong while feeling completely worn out.
