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A Guide to Finals Week: Freshman Perspective

The Progression of Little Five to Finals Week University Expectations and Student Contributions

So, after the fun-filled and eventful Little 500 week, students at IU experience each semester what we call "dead week." Dead week is supposed to get its name from the students' chance to relax a little bit, not receive homework or projects, and to focus on charging up and gearing up for the heinous intimidating finals week. However, dead week is not dead. That phrase must have been effective another time because even as a freshman, I have not experienced such break. Dead week is full of last minute grade pull-ups and alterations and loose assignments. After dead week, students are all put on the line for recalling a semester's worth of material. This is similar to high school, except the weight of the final exam grade on your course grade is large. I will talk more about coping in my video. Here are some student tweets!

Please visit my home page here for my contact information to get involved or ask me a question! Enjoy my last video as a freshman!

XOXO and a farewell to my freshman year,

Chelsie Kasun


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