Graduation.

As the few weeks of winter term dwindle away and the warm days of spring creep slowly into our minds, the looming date of graduation hangs teasingly on the horizon, taunting college seniors with the freedom they've been working toward since those first fragile Kinder days.

Between studying for your last finals and enjoying the waning days of irresponsibility, take a few minutes to appreciate the last four years, and check out the 17 Things All Graduating Seniors Understand:

1. 15 minutes of pride from realizing that, against all odds and many, many hungover mornings, you are, in fact, graduating:

2. You're untouchable—you're finally going to be a real adult with money and a job. You're basically Leo at this year's Oscars:

3. You're over school. Three weeks left of Winter Term, and you find yourself contemplating skipping that 9 a.m. class for a few more precious moments of sleep:

4. You strategically plan your final semester's classes to provide the most optimal drinking schedule:

5. You start to apply for grown-up jobs... and realize you're basically unqualified to exist:

6. You spend many nights drinking wine to help with this crushing realization. Lots and lots of wine:

7. No, seriously, so much wine:

8. You tell yourself that it will all be okay. You spend many mornings pumping yourself up:

9. If you have to answer one more "What are your plans after your graduate?" question:

10. You don't want to hear about So-and-So's interview with Bank of America/Nike/Goldman Sachs/Merrill Lynch:

11. You struggle through your final term of classes. Basically, you're a body in a seat, and you're okay with that:

12. "It's 5 o'clock somewhere" has lost meaning to you:

13. You pretty much only survive the stress by having a drink... or four:

14. You laugh at all of the freshman who are stuck here for four years:

15. Laughing turns into crying when you remember that they still have the best four years ahead of them:

16. The crying continues when you realize you finally have to be an adult:

17. Graduation finally arrives and you realize that you did it and you're actually an adult now:

Cue the wine.