If you're like me, you LOVE the Olympics, so you thoroughly enjoyed all of the coverage over the last couple of weeks (and were then slightly devastated when it all ended). Now you may just be sitting in sadness, wondering why the Olympics only happen every two years, but not to worry! Maybe the Olympics only occur every two years, and maybe that is super sad, but that doesn't mean we can't reminisce. The Olympics show us what it means to be human, and therefore relate to lots of things in life, including the upcoming school year.
1. The athletes remind you that you should be SUPER excited.
I mean, maybe you're not competing in the Olympics. But, don't lie, you know that the face that Laurie Hernandez is making is the same one you make when you get to pick out a cute new agenda or notebook.
2. You know you'll have an Olympic gymnast kind of pep in your step on the way to class.
You've got so much excited energy the first couple days that you could basically be a gymnast doing a floor routine.
3. However, you know that, in reality, everything will be slow because sidewalks look like the Opening Ceremony masses.
How many people can fit on this sidewalk? We'll find out. Should we throw in a bicyclist just to spice things up? Absolutely.
4. Regardless of the crowds, your stellar playlist will pump you up just like the playlists of athletes do.
You've gotta get in the zone. The mood must be just right. That'll get you back in the excitement.
5. You remember that homework exists, and your Phelps face comes out.
Oh, right. School means homework, and homework means less free time, and less free time means an angry me.
6. The happy tears remind you that homework sometimes is decent though, when it means that you too end up crying happy tears because you did great on a test that you thought you'd fail.
What a beautiful thing it is when you (AND your friend) do well on an exam.
7. You actually start to believe that using Wikipedia for research may not be the best idea in the world.
Nothing but the facts are on Wikipedia, right???
8. Watching all the Olympic sports gets you more than ready for college sports to start back up.
The next best thing to cheering for your country is cheering for your school.
9. You start to think about how you really could use some better "fun facts" for all those syllabus week icebreaker games.
Ginny Thrasher: "My name is Ginny, I'm a sophomore, and this summer I won the first gold medal of the Olympics."
Me: "My name is Erin, I'm a sophomore, and this summer I...worked a lot..."
10. You are inspired to follow all of your passions and try new things this year, like maybe gymnastics.
Then you realize that you really shouldn't probably start gymnastics at this age. Maybe swimming will work out? Or badminton? Or archery? Colleges have club archery teams, right???
11. You remind yourself that no matter how the year goes, you are a gold medalist in being you.
Sure, there may be people your age winning gold medals and setting world records at Rio, but you can run all the way to the fridge to grab ice cream during a commercial break. And you're double majoring. And you're involved on campus. And you made it through today without a nap. You deserve all the gold medals this school year.
