Ah, summer, the breeding ground for pool parties, boating, summer crushes and fun all over. Well lucky for us, the college students and soon to be adults, that sh** is OVER.
Summer used to be the time when your biggest worry was not being able to find a ride to the pool. Serious FOMO would rack your teeny bopper little minds because you no longer saw your friends at school every day. Now, this may still be how summer is for your first year of college or so, but as graduation's impending date creeps on us like death (read my last article where I also made this dark metaphor #shamelessplug) it's time to be down to business.
No more days spent by the pool, no more hours spent in front of the tv binging on ABCFamily (now called Freeform, which btw wtf is up with that?) and TeenNick (TeenNick, homie you still alive?) and no more effortless golden tans. NOPE, things have changed homie and it is not the same. Here are three ways summer has changed in college.
1. We feel obligated to get an internship.
Want a chance at MAYBE getting a job out of college, then you better hit Indeed.com or Glassdoor.com and start searching for a summer internship. And if you were anything like me and didn't know what you wanted to do with your life until halfway through your sophomore year, then you were probably also hella behind (no just me, k.).
So you beg and plead for anyone to give you any sort of internship. Unpaid? Heck yeah, Yes, give me experience. I will do ANYTHING at this point (desperate much? Yes, yes I am). You also know that to get
2. We start to dabble in "adulting."
You are used to being somewhat
Laundry, mopping and watering the plants become part of your everyday vernacular. You know you are really living the life when you have to buy a plunger (which is as horrifying and embarrassing as it sounds. The check out woman laughed at me.)
Hungry? Drive-thrus aren't an option because you have a budget (budget, sounds so adult I know) and you are currently broke AF. So you get used to burnt pasta sauce and sandwiches, lots of sandwiches. And the realization that it will only become MORE REAL when you graduate soon sets in (student loans about to bury me alive).
3. There's always something to worry about.
Did I turn the lights off before I left today? Was the door really locked? Did I remember to water the plants? Did I just over water the plants? Do I have sunscreen with me? Not about to get skin cancer or wrinkles because I now think to worry about that.
OMG am I going to get skin cancer from all of this time in the sun? Did I remember to get toilet paper when I got groceries? Did I remember to put the trash out? What if the raccoons get into my trash? What the heck tore up my plants? Do I have a rat problem? Where the flip are all these ants coming from? Do I have time to hang out with people? Are people going to think I am lame because I am too tired to hang out tonight? Am I going to be single forever?
Did I drink enough water today? Am I drinking too much water? I am going to have to pee a lot at work today because of all this water and my boss is totally going to judge me on how much I am going. (No, just me? Cool). And on and on. Anyone else also worrying this much? No, I'm just a freak? K.
If you also feel like your summers have been taken away can I get a "hoot, hoot?"
*silence*
Does anyone else think that this is just a part of growing up and we (I) need to suck it up?
*The crowd goes wild*
K, thanks. Was asking for a friend.
