Since the first week of college you know what you're getting into, you just don't know it's going to be the bumpiest ride and it's going to last for a while. One day, you can be sleeping on your dorm, you wake up and suddenly you get hit with a bus called "the struggle"
1. Paying for textbooks
You spend hundreds of dollars on books and that's normal. Why are they so expensive?
2. Procrastination, your closest "friend"
You're writing a paper due Wednesday and all of the sudden your brain tells you to check Facebook, Twitter, check your phone messages, anything to draw your attention away from the important work that you have due.
3. Being terrible with time management
Let's be honest here, when the professor gives you several days to do an essay, you just prefer to do it at 5 a.m, four hours before the class starts.
4. Actually being homesick
Who doesn't miss the nice home cooked meal from grandma or the old chat with your father, or even your favorite cousin?
5. Being tired 24/7
Either you never get enough time to sleep for studying for the next midterm or because your friends invited you to a party and you had too much fun
6. Meeting length requirements
The professor gave an assignment on The History of Marco Polo. You have no idea on how to write eight pages on this subject and the coffee to keep you up isn't working.
7. Eating meals
Either you have the time and pig out every day in the cafeteria or you starve yourself because you have no time to eat.
8. Not being able to afford anything
Every student will be on the lookout for the next coupon on whatever is available. Living on a tight budget couldn't seem any realer.
9. Laziness
When you get tired 24/7, you just develop laziness. Don't want to get out of bed cause it's too comfortable and that 8 a.m class sounds dreadful.
10. Suddenly having to be responsible
Oh, now, I have to worry? Money? Class? My future and goals? It's just all so sudden!
At the end, your time in college will be one of the best experiences you'll have in your life and the pros most definitely outweigh the cons. Every one struggles in their life, there's not much wrong with that. Enjoy college!
