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35 Thoughts You Have the Night Before Leaving For College

I really don't want to pack.

Megan Manning
Sep 01, 2015
Providence College
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35 Thoughts You Have the Night Before Leaving For College
Kelley O'Toole

The night before you leave for college, whether it is your first year or your last, is one filled with panic and excitement. You are excited to go to school and see your friends, but also nervously last-minute packing. Leaving for college is physically and emotionally exhausting, but we can all do it.

1. I cannot wait to move out and not have my parents telling me what to do

2. Dad?! Did you wash my favorite shorts?

3. I would live at home forever if it meant my parents would always do my laundry and cook my food.

4. I'm going to do all the fun things with my friends!

5. How much Netflix can I watch instead of packing?

6. Is there a limit to how many dresses I can bring?

7. Did I remember to pack my laptop?

8. How has the summer gone by so quickly?

9. OK focus. It's midnight, and I have to leave tomorrow morning.

10. I haven't even packed half my stuff.

11. Why do I always procrastinate?

12. I should have started doing this weeks ago.

13. What if I get there and I forgot something important?

14. I should Google a packing list.

15. I'll check my emails first.

16. Sale at J. Crew? I'll check that out too.

17. No, I need to focus on packing.

18. Almost done.

19. I wonder what will happen at home when I'm gone?

20. Will my parents change?

21. This room, my childhood bedroom, will never be mine again the way it was growing up.

22. I love my parents, and my hometown, and my friends there, but this isn't the place I belong anymore.

23. I am so excited for college, even the homework parts.

24. I am also dreading the homework parts.

25. What will I do after college?

26. Oh my God, I have no idea that is so stressful; I am about to have a panic attack right now.

27. I really don't want to pack.

28. What if I just go through my scrapbooks instead?

29. It's crazy how much has changed in my life so far, and who knows what is coming?

30. Mom! Where did you put my Pillow Pet?!

31. I have way too many clothes. How am I going to pack all of these?!

32. Why do I let myself buy these things?

33. Oh, this sweater would look really cute with that pink skirt I saw at Gap.

34. If I just wish, will this all magically appear in my dorm room?

35. And I still have to unpack this when I get there.

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