10 Dreadful Things for Students as the Holidays Approach
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10 Dreadful Things for Students as the Holidays Approach

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10 Dreadful Things for Students as the Holidays Approach
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So, as this brisk holiday season approaches, the majority of people are settling to make plans with unwanted relatives, and arguing over who has to sleep in the creepy guest bedroom at grandma's house that weekend, but for students, this season is much more frightening than those old Mickey Mouse dolls with ratty eyes sewn on. Just so parents will cut their kids some slack, here is a very informative list of what exactly goes down:

1. Well, first and for most, there are these giant exams that take over our lives called finals. Everything we have learned and most of the things we have forgotten will haunt us for a nice two week period as students run very low on energy and consistently study.


2. Application time! Whether its an internship, grad school application, a transfer form, an actual college form, or even a job application, everyone seems to be formatting and reformatting their resume's to seem legit in hopes that it won't look like the album cover for "Life of Pablo" because of one small indentation.


3. Listening to the social pressures of posting the artsiest picture of a Thanksgiving meal with a very thoughtful caption. Yeah, that's right, parents will never understand the need to show off the turkey that your mom and aunt fought over how long to cook for while the dad's just watched TV. #Stressed


4. The lack of winter coats that you brought with you. Whether you're from Cali, New York, Florida, or even Chicago, I bet 9 out of 10 parent's told you that it wouldn't get that cold until after Thanksgiving break, therefore you won't need your "real" winter jacket until then. Yeah, thanks mom...


5. The motivation to get out of bed. I don't know if it's because of the dark or because it's freezing outside, but everyone on campus' thoughts on getting out of bed are somehow getting darker and darker as the days go on... Daylight savings could not come sooner.


6. All of that money you earned during a summer job is not slowly depreciating, leaving you with $100 to pay for your next few months of Chipotle and Starbucks and if you split that equally, its maybe five burritos and 10 Starbucks coffees, making it once again an issue for finals (listed as issue number 1)


7. Even less than the motivation when getting out of bed, is the motivation to go to the gym. It's practically exercise when you're walking to class or standing outside because your body has to try so hard to keep itself warm.


8. Seasons of your favorite shows ending so you just have to sit in bed and sulk. #RIP


9. The classic fight over which holiday card you send also begins... And for the majority of us in college, we just get cropped in and get to avoid the group chat.


10. After all of the complaining and stresses we have to face, break is always short-lived, and we are stuck having to go back to our school lives, with piles of other classwork and messes to deal with.


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