Even though you swear you were a freshman, like yesterday, senior year has rolled in in full force. And suddenly you find yourself diagnosed with a severe case of the senior scaries. Here's a little hope for your hangovers, you're not alone, were all washed up and scared shitless. So here's 13 signs you're in your senior year.
1. Drinking benders get harder every time.
Remember freshman year when you could party every day? Now going out on the weekends seems like a chore, let alone trying to hop on a bus down to Joe's on a Monday. I think my liver is crumbling just thinking about the next drinking extravaganza.
2. Professors ask why you drink.
Five exams this week? Four research projects due next week? Internship, clinicals, and classes everyday? No problem! You got this! Don't forget about those service hours you need! Oh! and by the way, your friends are visiting this weekend so make some time for a social life while you're at it.
3. Sleep is a foreign concept.
Sleeping in is a concept of the past. You're up finishing projects, studying for exams, going to work and hitting the gym all before your underclassmen friends wake up. Coffee is your life line.
4. The realization of paying your loans back is finally hitting you.
Even if you thought you were the lucky one of your friends because you have the least amount of loans, that amount is suddenly burning a hole in the back of your mind and in your wallet.
5. "So what do you plan to do with that?" is the death of you.
If you're a senior then you know everyone ever will question you on what you plan to do with your major and what you want to do with the rest of your life. Uhm, at this point I'm really just hoping I get a job.
6. The dreadful task of finalizing your resume haunts your dreams.
How does one actually make a resume? Why are there so many rules? Does shotgunning a beer in 5 seconds qualify as a skill? Can my mom be a reference?I know all the dances to high school musical. Will you actually call my old boss as a reference? Uhhh yikes!
7. The freshman class makes you feel ancient.
You never knew what it felt like to be old until the new freshman class is walking around campus. Half of them are in crop tops and booty shorts to a 9am while the other half still has braces. Not to mention, why are they so small?
8. Everything starts to hit you at once.
You're graduating college, trying to find a job to pay off your student loans, saying goodbye to living 100 feet away from your friends, and leaving a place where anything goes. But you're still trying to make the best of it despite all the anxiety.
9. Your meals make no sense.
One day you eat chicken nuggets for every meal with a Busch light on the side and the next day you make a five-star dinner with the perfect red wine. One day you eat a total of two servings of mac'n cheese and the next day you have three balanced meals. It literally makes no sense but you never questioned it until now.
10. You realize you've actually learned so much.
Four years goes by incredibly fast. And with all the shenanigans and busy schedules, it can feel like our classes didn't educate us like they should have. But eventually, while writing a paper or sitting in a lecture, you realize just how much you've actually learned. And you're going to kick ass in your field.
12. Everything is accepted senior year.
Hungover kids in your morning class is the norm. Someone just came from the pub to your evening class, also the norm. Students crying randomly around campus? Never questioned it. Classmates sleeping in random places of class or the library? Bruh, I feel you. Was that girl wearing that outfit yesterday? I'll pretend I never noticed.
13. Anything goes.
At the end of the day, you love college. And knowing it's your senior year means anything goes. So live it up now and go out with your friends. This is the last year you'll spend here, hopefully. So make it memorable, anything goes.
