Congrats, you completed you first year of college. It's been a wild ride, hasn't it? Aside from your freshman 15, here are some things you may start to notice the summer after your freshman year of college that can be quite the shock to your system:

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1. You realize that as cheesy and cliché it sounds, you probably are not the same person you are when you left for school.
2. You realize that you are NOT in the great shape you were back in August. It’s now harder to motivate yourself to work out.
3. Going along with that last one, you start to reflect on your diet. Why did you make such poor decisions at school? Just why. Oh would it happen to be that your college has a ton of dining centers? Or maybe you can blame it on the large pizza’s you ordered every weekend? Many possible variables.
4. You start to realize that college costs a boatload of money and like you don’t have a boat or money.
5. You have the extremely harsh realization that someday very soon you won’t be able to sleep in or laze around all day. Someday very soon you’re going to have to get up at a reasonable hour and go to a that thing real adults call a J-O-B
6. You realize that what pays the billz are not always fabulous, exciting, or fun. If you find a career that you wake up everyday and enjoy, never quit.
7. You realize your time with your family becomes less and less. Siblings are getting older, you’re putting in more hours, and your parents were forced to take up some hobbies while you were gone. Our lives are blooming. Cherish the quality time with your family.
8. Please realize that high school was probably a time for children ages 15 - 17 to release all of the instinctual immaturity. You’re 18 now. You are an old timer with a little experience under your belt now. Not much, but a little.
9. You realize what friends you want to make time for. You might go from seeing your “friends” everyday at high school to not really keeping in touch. It’s not a bad thing to realize who are your actual friends compared to acquaintances. You can focus more on the people who make you truly happy.
10. Proximity. You slowly realize that the closer in distance to things you are, the more you care for them at the time. The more you get used to them. The sooner you want to be back at school.