The summer after your Freshman year of college is depicted as an amazing and memorable time in one’s life. Where old flames reconnect and home-town friends party together all night long. What everyone seems to forget to mention is that we're adults now, and certain things are expected of us during this break from school.

1. You stop waking up for class and start waking up for work

As classes started to wind down you thought the early wake-up times were over, the summer had always been for sleeping into the afternoon in the past. Now the routine continues for the whole year only to start over again. Only for three months you get paid to wake up early, instead of paying for it.

2. You realize being a full-time student isn’t the same as working full-time

At school, you took anywhere from 12 to 18 credit hours, which meant a certain number of hours in the classroom learning and the rest outside of it studying. Working full time means 8 hours a day, 5 days a week nonstop, doing everything you need to get done right now.

3. Showing up late to class is not the same as showing up late to work

When you show up late to class you sneak in quietly in the back while the professor gives you a dirty glare, and you’re likely to do it at least once a week. If you show up late to work sneaking in quietly will not be enough, you’ll get a hefty talking to from your boss and be in the dog house for a couple of days.

4. The boys you grew up with are still boys, they just call themselves men

With Tinder, Bumble, OkCupid and a slew of other dating apps you think it would be easier to find someone to have a summer romance with in your home town. However, it turns out that the boy you sat next to in Chemistry and the one that parked like an asshole all four years of high school are both just as immature and sex-crazed as when you left 9 months ago.

5. People have stopped asking you where you are going to school and now want to know what you’re going to do with your major

The conversation has changed from where you decided to go to school to what your major is and what you plan to do with it. As if you’ll know that after 9 months of general education classes and lecture halls. Keep your head held high and don’t be afraid to tell them you have no freakin’ clue.

6. After not having a car up at school, you forget driving has rules and regulation

When you’re driving 20 miles over the speed limit and see the red and blue sirens go off behind your car you cringe because suddenly there is a real possibility of you getting a speeding ticket or getting taken into the local police station. All the school year you moaned about paying for Ubers and groaned about wanting your car, but it all comes with a price if you can’t follow the rules of the road.

7. Everyone knows everyone

That cute new guy you met at work? 98 mutual friends on Facebook, which throws a wrench into the fantasy you’ve been imagining about him knowing nothing about you. Your new college town brought hundreds of new possibilities of men and women to date who know nothing about you or your awkward teenage years. All that goes out the window the minute you get back into your home town, and will stay that way for the rest of the summer.

8. Friday and Saturday nights are not filled with raging parties, but Netflix and no pants

The amazing summer rager where you meet your summer fling, that has the potential to turn into something more? Yeah, that never actually happens and the closest you get is drinking beer with your friends in your living room in pjs playing drunk Speak Out. You learn to be okay with that, and realize the friends you can party with in your Hello Kitty shirt and no make-up are the truest you can ever get.

9. Recently graduated high school students pretending to know your pain

Until they’ve been to school and moved out of their homes only to come back to a completely alternate universe they don’t get to have a say in your pain. Their excitement and joy isn’t contagious it makes you want to vomit. You remember not so long ago when that was you and now you’re a working bitter woman, and when did that happen?

10. Even though you can’t wait to go back to school, your last weeks will be filled with an urge to stay in your hometown

You moan and groan about living with your parents and having rules, all the while you know when August rolls around you’ll be sobbing in their arms not wanting to leave your big comfortable bed and home cooked meals.

What you need to realize is that all of this is normal, and going through it makes you human not crazy. Many things change once you go to school and learning to deal with that might drive you insane but is completely necessary to go through your first “adult” summer. Keep your head up kiddo, you’ll get the hang of it eventually, but by then you’ll be going back to school and everything will change again. Don't ever forget to dance it out.