On Monday, study government for five hours and then precalculus for six hours. Remember how to graph logs and exponential growth functions. Then on Tuesday I need to focus solely on anatomy. Don’t forget anatomical position! Alright then that leaves me all of Wednesday to type up my Spanish study guide and cut all my flashcards. Ay ay ay! Can’t forget to read the rest of Wuthering Heights, too. I must finish it. Remember: Spark Notes is prohibited. Don’t be tempted.

Whew. I don’t know about you, but my mind goes into organization overload mode when those first semester finals roll around. It’s the time of year where every night I pray that God can magically make a day have 80 hours, just so I can get all my studying and homework done.

So when I go to school and hear five out of seven of my teachers say, “we’re going to have a test” on the last day teachers are allowed to give tests, my brain goes limp.

Don’t get me wrong, I love that there is a day where afterwards no tests are allowed to be given. It’s fantastic, but maybe it needs to be rethought and reorganized.

I think we should keep up this so-called “last day of tests” date. It’s helpful. It creates less stress, but only if teachers take it the right way.

This date pushes many of our teachers to quickly squeeze in a test. With seven classes, these tests can pile up, all within a day of each other.

“I think it’s nice that there’s a cutoff for tests but sometimes it’s hard because every teacher chooses to have a test that day. That’s the only problem,” senior Michaela Bukaty said.

I’m suggesting that maybe our teachers can communicate. I know it could never be perfect, and there’s always going to be times when you have multiple tests on one day, but maybe the load could be lightened. Maybe the tests could be more spread out to give us more breathing room.

Also, I know a lot of teachers do not follow this “last day of tests” rule. Some give us “quests,” as we like to call them, after this date. I get why it makes sense from the teachers’ standpoint. They’re not done with the lesson and need a day or so more before they test their pupils on it. That makes sense.

“Sometimes it’s [the date] not possible because I want to make sure that the students know the information and one of the ways for me to make sure is to test them, even if it’s after the last day of tests date,” Spanish teacher Maggie Adler said.

It just frustrates me, though, because now I have one more test to worry about. This test that’s given after the “last day of tests” date could affect my grade and also affect how well I need to do on my final. Added stress. Seems silly and over analyzed, but that’s what it comes down to.

I think cutting the last tid bits of class information or planning ahead helps everyone, teachers and students, in the long run.

So keep the date. But teachers and students should both come together to make sure they don’t have tests all on that one day, or after that date, by working together and planning ahead.

Less overbooked school days before finals, less stressed Sionians. And that’s always a plus.