The puffy, tired, bloodshot eyes that result from spending hours staring at your computer screen while trying to figure out ways to cleverly avoid plagiarizing - what you are in fact plagiarizing - from wikipedia.
"Hi honey...uh...oh my goodness, did you accidentally stab your self in the eyes with two pencils simultaneously?"
"No my dear, I've been plagiarizing other peoples ideas into an essay I've been writing."
"Oh you poor dear, you've got essay eye's again don't you?"
Person 1: "Dude, I think I have an essay due tomorrow. Or is it the day after"
Person 2: "You have Schrödinger's Essay. Just don't check and it is never due."
Essay Season is the week or so before vacation or the grade closes. The reason whyteacher give so many essay during the week, is so that we go from a 93.22 to 68.23.
Mom: What happened to your grades?
Kid: Mom, it was Essay Season
Mom: What??
Kid: You know when all the teachers decide to make all their essays due on the same day.