Picture this, sophomore year starts. You're excited to come back and see all the amazing friends you made freshman year. You come back on move-in day/the first day of classes, and it's almost as if it's freshman year all over again. New professors, new classmates, new friends and the same nerve-cited feeling you had about a year ago. This makes it easy to think you're having some sort of deja vu, like you've lived this part of your life before. It seems like everything is the exact same as last year but I'm here to tell you why it's not, at all actually.

1. Last year you started off knowing nobody, except maybe that one person who went to high school with you. This year you know everybody and are basically the cream of the crop in your school.

2. Unfortunately the sophomore slump is real and happens to almost everyone. It's easy to get down on yourself, but let me tell you if you get through the sophomore slump the light at the end of the tunnel is much brighter than you could have imagined.

3. It's OK not to come back looking like a goddess. I tried, but truth is you deserve to just relax. It's OK, just don't hurt yourself in the process. If the gym is relaxing for you, go for it, but otherwise do whatever you want.

4. It's OK to become amazing friends with "freshmeat" as high schoolers call it. I did, and it's one of the best things that happened sophomore year. We're not in high school and quite literally no one cares what academic level you or your friends are at .

5. Treat yourself. You'll be doing a lot of studying, so treat yourself to that midnight food run and afterwards, pat yourself on the back and say, "You go Glenn Coco!"

6. Be spontaneous. Freshman year you were probably really anxious, which is 100 percent normal. Just know it's OK to randomly go to the beach one weekend.

7. Nobody cares, in the best way possible. Nobody cares who/what you are so flaunt it and be you.

8. Be smart and don't draw negative attention to yourself. Everybody will figure it out.

9. Go home. Your family misses you. I made the mistake of rarely ever going home and learning later that it made my family feel pretty bad. Basically don't pull a me.

10. Do you, and nobody else will care. Life sucks sometimes and nobody should be the one to dictate how you handle it.