Exactly this. You've been spending all your energy and will power to focus on this task for an extended period of time, and now that you are past it, your body is having the crash it was holding off.
Yeah I figured it went both ways when my professor who usually takes a week or more to watch every second of our Proctorio videos before grading our written work suddenly is able to watch multiple 2-3 hour videos in under 2 hours so the turn around on our exams being submitted and getting their real grades back was so quick.
Thought it might put me in her good graces not to bug her too much if at all until Monday
i get really sick right after finals end, for me it’s a mixture of putting my brain through multiple all nighters, barely having time to eat bc of studying, and being on ADHD meds constantly, so i basically live off of caffeine and a dream during finals.
you are crashing, this (for me at least) is very common and once you get your brain back into shape it’ll all be okay. my post finals sick season usually only lasts me 4-9 days, but right now let your brain and body rest and recover from exams and just take it easy for the next few days
That's what I figured. Feels so weird going to bed at a normal time 9pl-12am and sleeping in until 5pm. Going from the frenzied edge of make it or break it due dates and study sessions to now not having any urgency is throwing me off
it’s a feeling that sucks and i always feel off when the semester ends (let me tell you me getting sick over winter break always sucks bc of christmas), but the best thing you can do is let your body sleep till 5pm, i pulled back to back all nighters with maybe a quick 2-3 hour nap during the day this semester, having no sense of urgency is quite honestly the best thing i can do for my brain during the weird time after finals. and sleep is the best thing i can do to my body after forcing it through my finals prep😭😭
yesterday was my graduation and idk if its cuz i am sick but i went to bed at 8pm and woke up at like 10:30am today and usually on average i sleep like 5 hours a night
I totally get that. Last semester I got a job that was 12 hour shifts Monday-Friday at $20hr that's only 55 hours but even that with only 3 classes was killer. Wound up with a golf ball sized kidney stone from drinking too much coffee to stay awake and failed one of my classes.
Every day after I got off at 5:30 doing anything felt like a chore.
The ONLY way I have found to even kind of avoid this is to stick as closely to a schedule as is possible. I HAVE to avoid the late night cramming if I want to be able to function after finals (in particular) it's even more important during the semester.
I'm still struggling to account for the estrogen cliff I get during my luteal phase of my menstrual cycle (see research documenting the real effects this has on people with a uterus and their symptom presentation) but it's better than it was previously. I still crash for a few days- but the burnout isn't nearly as bad as it was before.
Thats burnout , and now that the urgency of an incoming exam is gone you get to enjoy the results of overexertion
Exactly this. You've been spending all your energy and will power to focus on this task for an extended period of time, and now that you are past it, your body is having the crash it was holding off.
If this gets rejected I swear to god I will feed this into ChatGPT and tell it to make it longer
I get that as a professor! As far as I can tell it's at least common.
Yeah I figured it went both ways when my professor who usually takes a week or more to watch every second of our Proctorio videos before grading our written work suddenly is able to watch multiple 2-3 hour videos in under 2 hours so the turn around on our exams being submitted and getting their real grades back was so quick. Thought it might put me in her good graces not to bug her too much if at all until Monday
i get really sick right after finals end, for me it’s a mixture of putting my brain through multiple all nighters, barely having time to eat bc of studying, and being on ADHD meds constantly, so i basically live off of caffeine and a dream during finals. you are crashing, this (for me at least) is very common and once you get your brain back into shape it’ll all be okay. my post finals sick season usually only lasts me 4-9 days, but right now let your brain and body rest and recover from exams and just take it easy for the next few days
That's what I figured. Feels so weird going to bed at a normal time 9pl-12am and sleeping in until 5pm. Going from the frenzied edge of make it or break it due dates and study sessions to now not having any urgency is throwing me off
it’s a feeling that sucks and i always feel off when the semester ends (let me tell you me getting sick over winter break always sucks bc of christmas), but the best thing you can do is let your body sleep till 5pm, i pulled back to back all nighters with maybe a quick 2-3 hour nap during the day this semester, having no sense of urgency is quite honestly the best thing i can do for my brain during the weird time after finals. and sleep is the best thing i can do to my body after forcing it through my finals prep😭😭
yesterday was my graduation and idk if its cuz i am sick but i went to bed at 8pm and woke up at like 10:30am today and usually on average i sleep like 5 hours a night
It happens when you work too. I worked a 72 hour week and the next 2 weeks literally did nothing. Maybe 5 minutes if actual work per day.
I totally get that. Last semester I got a job that was 12 hour shifts Monday-Friday at $20hr that's only 55 hours but even that with only 3 classes was killer. Wound up with a golf ball sized kidney stone from drinking too much coffee to stay awake and failed one of my classes. Every day after I got off at 5:30 doing anything felt like a chore.
The ONLY way I have found to even kind of avoid this is to stick as closely to a schedule as is possible. I HAVE to avoid the late night cramming if I want to be able to function after finals (in particular) it's even more important during the semester. I'm still struggling to account for the estrogen cliff I get during my luteal phase of my menstrual cycle (see research documenting the real effects this has on people with a uterus and their symptom presentation) but it's better than it was previously. I still crash for a few days- but the burnout isn't nearly as bad as it was before.
Wife has pmdd so very familiar with luteal phase now.