It's that time again.

The end of the semester means finals, christmas break, and a whole lot of studying. Essentially the entire semester is considered preparing for finals, so why does studying for finals always seem so hard? Is it because we (as students) never actually learned anything in the class, or have we just trained ourselves to think that it's supposed to be hard? Either way, it is definately the most-hated time of the semester. Today was the first dead day, and I studied for a few hours this morning, and a few this afternoon, and now I am at it again. I was just thinking though, is two days really enough time to study for five or six final exams? Some of my classes, I feel like it is almost going to be pointless to study. Especially if there is no hope of raising my grade, and/or I am satusfied with my current grade. Shouldn't that time and energy be put towards a more difficult subject matter? I wonder if other students think and feel this way or if it's just me. I talked to a few of my friends and they say that they don't really worry about finals. They chill, remain stress-free and figure they will make what they make. That seems like a carefree and certainly less-stressful approach, but could I be happy with myself for just completely settling? I really don't think so.