The good: After finishing exams, students spend 17 days relaxing and spending time with their families and friends. This leaves almost three weeks for stressed students to recuperate from school.

The bad: Although three weeks off sounds nice, students go stir-crazy. By the second week off, all video games have been played and Netflix is a list of binge-watched series. Boredom sets in.

The ugly: Does anyone really enjoy spending Christmas Eve with their families just to go visit them again the next day? Weird foods combined with mildly inebriated relatives gets old quite quickly.

James Keller is a Copy Editor for The Patriot and jcpatriot.com.