The first two years of college are fun. It is new, and it’s exciting. You spend your nights making stories for your future self to tell. It’s great. But, then come the final years of college. This is the time that all hell breaks loose, and you ask yourself each day, “Am I going to survive today?” or “How many emotional breakdowns will it take to get through these next coming hours?” This is the time that real adulthood is quickly approaching, and you are not in the slightest bit prepared for it. These are the thoughts, feelings, and emotions that you have in your final years of college…and probably, on occasion, during the initial years as well.

1. You feel like an over-sized toddler that is trying their best not to knock over fragile items in an antique store.

2. Your crippling amount of student loan debt is a number that you avoid looking at for your own mental health.

3. You also avoid checking your bank account balance. That number will only bring you sadness as well.

4. Sometimes, you wish that a campus vehicle would hit you.

5. Five hours of sleep is a good night’s rest.

6. You now need 5 bottles of wine to catch a buzz anymore. Sorry, liver.

7. You convince yourself that nothing is going wrong.

8. Or, you lie when someone asks how you are. It is easier that way.

9. You begin to question every important life choice that you have made.

10. You want a puppy, but you cannot have a puppy. You are poor.

11. Sunday evenings are the absolute worst.

12. You seriously consider dropping out each day.

13. You think about working out, but usually you nap instead.

14. You say that you don’t care anymore more, but you continue to work really hard.

15. You ask yourself three years in, “Is this really the major I should have chosen?”

16. On a daily basis, you wonder why you don’t have a lifestyle like Beyoncé.

17. Not even caffeine can keep you awake and functioning like an actual human being anymore.

18. You have a daily planner, but you are too busy/lazy to fill it out. Its purpose is to make everyone else think that you have your life together.

19. Netflix has actually ruined your life by stealing precious time away from you…just one more episode.

20. You ran out of detergent; so, you haven’t done laundry in a month.

21. You wish you would have been born a dog some days…or most days.

22. You wonder, “Have I eaten today? Have I eaten this week? How is my body surviving purely off of coffee and vodka?”

23. These are the years when a lot of us become sassy. There is no time to spend dealing with terrible people.

24. You question how others have their life together.

25. Don’t worry. They don’t. We are all just faking it.