Coming in strong at Number #1, we have second period. It’s chill, it’s quick, and it doesn’t leave you wanting to cry for the rest of the day. It’s not early enough for you to be cursing the school’s attendance policies, nor is it late enough for you to start hallucinating your bedroom in the middle of Algebra. And your brain is at peak productivity at that time of day. Everyone loves second period and anyone who doesn’t is wrong.

While morning fatigue continues to plague us, the hope for a good day still persists. Indeed, there is hope, and now is the time to pray for your next teacher to be absent. It’s really just a blank canvas to determine your mood for the day. Are you going to be grumpy and cranky all day, or are you going to be productive and pleasant? Go prepare and process. And while it’s never as awesome as second period, first period can rock too.

Fourth period is amazing for some, and flat-out painful for others. Like first period, it can be quite a hit-or-miss. Yes, there’s always the added excitement of reaching the finish line, and for some, the promise of freedom afterwards makes it their favorite class period. But, since it’s at the end of the day, all brain-power has already been sacrificed to third period, and now you’re just tired, sleepy and dying to get home.

Homeroom, if you can even call it a “period”, is just…there. Let’s be honest, no one’s awake enough to form a solid opinion on Homeroom. Hell, some people skip it entirely because it’s just that unimportant. Of course, those of us infected with “I-Have-No-Classes-With-My-Friends-Except-Homeroom-And-Lunch” syndrome greatly appreciate the seven minutes of fun, but other than that, there really isn’t much else to be excited about. It’s not incredibly misery-inducing, but neither is it really exciting–and for that, Homeroom gets fourth place.

Nobody likes third period, and anybody who says they do is lying. It’s painfully long, mind-numbingly boring, and by the end of the period, you’re just tired and drained and want to go home. Whatever happiness is felt at the beginning of the day is immediately swallowed up by the ever-looming presence of this monstrous class period. the  And God forbid you have fifth lunch, then it’s just two hours of hunger and longing. By far the worst place to be during the school day.