OMG! Summer C! It’s going to be so fun. Remember freshman year? Even sophomore year? We had the best time ever. Can’t wait to have fun and get my grades up!
No. Not when you actually want to graduate on time. And you’re two classes short for graduation. And you are definitely not taking five in fall. And your stupid major requires a second language and a minor. And you aren’t in ENC1101 or MMC2000. Summer C was literally awful. I was in class for five hours a day, EVERY. DAY. I had to read five books, do homework every single night, had 2 quizzes a week, 4 exams, 2 oral exams, 2 written exams, and mandatory attendance. Summer C is seriously only fun if you are a freshman.
1. Freshmen get to take ENC1101 a couple of days a week in the summer, for an hour, and pretty much always get an A.
Seriously, consider yourself lucky.
Adding onto that – freshmen don’t have to take LIT3383 and read five novels in five weeks. How can I do anything when I have to read 600 pages tonight?!
2. Freshmen can bounce back from a hangover like no other.
Oh, you only could get into an 8 a.m.? No problem! Get wasted!! You will feel fine!! Just wait until you’re at the ripe age of 21. Yeah. Not so fun.
On top of that – freshmen don’t get hangovers so they go out every night! And it never gets old! It is always fun!! Also they don’t know what Bajas is so they’re 85% cleaner than the rest of the students here who have gone there.
3. Freshmen also just love school.
It’s so fun and easy and the campus is so pretty and the heat isn’t that bad to them. They never want to go home.
4. Freshmen don’t (usually) have jobs.
They just moved here, don’t even usually have a car, and yet again, only have to worry about ENC1101 and never have to worry about parking because they can walk to class.
Side note – by the time I graduate I will have spent probably one hundred hours of my life looking for a parking spot.
5. Freshmen’s parents aren’t tired of the excessive spending on apartment decorations and food and alcohol.
Yet. So they don’t have to worry about that on top of school, work, gas, LIFE.
6. Freshmen have no idea what their major is, and they don’t care.
They “know” what they want to do in life, but really they don’t, and it doesn’t matter, because they have so much time to figure it out. Please embrace this. I’m freaking out about this currently.
7. Freshmen in Summer C aren’t in a sorority.
AKA they can do whatever they want and be as drunk and stupid as they want and no one will yell at them!! Jealous. Seriously!!
8. Freshmen think you are supposed to go out at 9 and always be home by 11.
I am so jealous. I wish. I don’t have the energy for anything else.
9. ENC1101 doesn’t have exams (unless your professor is the spawn of Satan himself)
So, no midterms in week TWO of classes, and no finals after the professors have jammed four month’s worth of information into your brains after five weeks. Side note—This is the reason I became an English major. No exams!!
10. Freshmen don’t have their friends working at the bars yet.
So, instead of being struck with poison when you ask for a nice drink (cc: Emily), you just get juice in a cup with pretend alcohol. Which now really makes sense with the fact that I didn’t get hangovers when I was a freshman..
I wish I could go back to the happy days when I was young and not thinking about my future and frolicking around campus instead of being stuck in one building and loving life. Fourth year freshman that's me!
