The worst part of starting the school year (other than actually attending school) is picture day. Picture day is a day full of stress and anxiety that comes with looking decent for about however long it takes to get your picture taken. This tiny little photo will be in a book forever, that people can buy and reference how you looked that year. Just thinking about picture day gives me the creeps, and here's why:

1. The positions the photographer makes you pose in are so uncomfortable and not natural looking... "Turn your body facing sideways and your face forwards, but also have your chin down." So in the end you end up with a creepy photo with your head tilted to the side and a massive double chin, you look great!

2. When the photographer helpers would try and fix your hair and outfit before taking the photo; also known as combing the heck out your hair and making you look like you walked right of the 80's. (But hey, you ended up getting some free cheap combs).

3. Trying to actually look like you care about your appearance, but unintentionally go overboard.

4. Not knowing how you look before getting your photo taken, and just going off of what your friends tell you.

5. When the photographers aren't clear when they are going to take the photo, so you are left being caught off guard.

6. Not finding out until the end of the year when people buy yearbooks how you look... and by then it is way too late for retakes.

7. Trying so hard not to blink, but end up looking like a serial killer.

8. Then the obvious and worst fear of every student is BLINKING.

9. When you have picture day and gym on the same day.

10. The amount of time you prepared for picture day but it still ends up terrible and then you realized you wasted all that time...