I still remember the day I moved all of my things into my dorm freshman year. It feels like yesterday that I was a wide-eyed frosh – wondering around campus, just doing my best to make the most out of my college experience. How did time fly by so fast? How is senior year one week away? Why can’t we all just hit the rewind button and repeat the past three years?
Here are 10 signs you’re about to enter your senior year of college:
1. You are terrified to start the last chapter of your college career.
It’s the beginning of the end. Pretty soon we will all be getting jobs and/or going to grad school. I am not prepared for real life. I still accidentally sleep through my 8:30 a.m. I feel like my future employer would be less than pleased if I showed up to work late because I forgot to set my alarm the night before.
2. But you’re also really excited for senior year parties.
Everyone is officially 21, which means real bars and legal drinking for all. Nothing says senior year like red solo cup dartying on Eaton on a sunny Saturday afternoon.
3. You’ve been scrambling to find and secure an internship for the summer.
How do I write “would do anything for the job” in my cover letter without sounding too desperate?
4. You feel really old.
Just take a moment and go look at a picture of yourself from freshman year. We were all such babies…going to Finnegan’s and crying because Louie’s got shut down forever over winter break. So much has happened since we've come to school, and looking back on this time makes me feel like my grandma recalling her glory days.
5. Everyone keeps asking you what you want to do with your life.
Sometimes I am so indecisive that I change outfits four-times in one day. How can I be expected to make a major life decision when I can’t even figure out what shoes go with my shirt?
6. Half of your friends are about to graduate.
Is it too late for you all to fail your classes and stay at school as super seniors? I honestly cannot imagine what my college experience would be like without you guys.
7. You’ve already caught Senioritis.
I’m not saying that I want to get a zero on my physics final; I’m just saying that I’ve calculated what grade I would receive if I did get a zero on my physics final.
8. You finally feel like you have a solid friend group.
There is nothing worse than first semester freshman year – where everyone is way too desperate to make friends. Thank God that stage in life is over.
9. You’ve accepted the fact that sometimes staying in and drinking a bottle of wine while watching your favorite Disney movie is just as fun as actually going out.
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Every now and then, I’d rather throw on a pair of sweatpants, scrub my makeup off and drink wine out of a box with my girls. Sometimes I just gotta belt out “Let It Go” as I re-enact the scene in my living room.
10. Regardless of how scary senior year my seem, you know that its going to be the best year of your life.
I hope Providence College is ready, because the class of 2017 is about to take over.
