ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- We've all been there; spending long hours in the library cramming for that final exam worth 50 percent of your grade.

"We'll make it, we always do," Palak Patel, a junior at the University Rochester said. "I think that's the mentality."

For another year, students are using that mentality to remind their peers to not take finals week too seriously.

"C's get degrees," Eugenia Zeng, a junior at the University Rochester laughed.

Zeng got that laugh thanks to a sticky piece of star-shaped paper. It's all part of a program called 'Post-it Positivity.'

"The University of Rochester is a very academically rigorous school and these students need as much positivity as they can get," Allison Friske, a member of 'Active Minds' at the University of Rochester said.

Based on the concept of take a penny leave a penny, students can either write a positive message for their peers, or take one for themselves.

"The ones I personally enjoy the ones that say 'just keep going, it's almost over, or move on,' Friske said.

The program began back in 2013 thanks to a Rush Rhees librarian.

"The person who actually created it for our campus is Physics, Optics Astronomy Librarian, Tyler Dzuba," Kristen Totleben, a Rush Rhees librarian explained.

Tyler wasn't on campus this week, so Totleben is filling us in on the details.

"We've had Post-it's with really kind encouragements, we've had them in different languages and we've had art on them," Totleben said.

Of course there are references to Stars Wars and countdowns to Christmas too. This year with the help of student organization 'Active Minds' there are 17 stations set-up around campus.

"I believe last spring there were about 2,000 (Post-it's) that he had counted from just the distribution of the post-it notes," Totleben said.

With finals going nowhere, there are bound to be more friendly reminders like these indefinitely.

"Good luck you can do it," Zeng read off her Post-it.