As a senior about to start college, who isn't excited to escape the immature drama and all the unnecessary baggage that comes with high school? Thinking back to my graduation, while everyone was crying and hugging each other reminiscing on the best memories of high school, I was literally running out the school thinking to myself "FINALLY FREEEEE!!!". Seriously, it was an amazing feeling graduating & planning on going to college that next fall. Not going to class until 11 AM, potentially only having classes two days a week, not having to raise my hand to go to the bathroom?! Literally nothing sounded more perfect. Well... nothing school related at least. Sadly like most good things... those amazing thoughts came to a slow, tortuous, dreadful end. Here are four things that most incoming freshmen (like myself) did not even consider when entering college, told by the emotion of the characters of The Office...

1. When you just have to register for that 8 AM, since no other class is possibly available...

Ahhh, yes. You think college is so amazing when you get to make your own schedule, right?!....WRONG! When you are a freshman, do NOT plan on getting the schedule you want. Plan on taking those early classes, young ones. That was one thing I was not warned about. Finding out myself at 6 AM when I woke up bright & early to register for classes on the first day I possibly could, just to see absolutely no class was available, other than 8 AM classes. My heart broke so bad, and every 8 AM class since then has been a curse on me. Imagine taking 8 AM classes every single day instead of only twice a week, leading me into the next letdown...

2. Having to come to school every single day...

When I was in high school, I had a teacher tell me that you have Monday, Wednesday, Friday classes or Tuesday/Thursday classes. Hearing something like that, you can understand how ecstatic I was. I thought to myself, I can go to school twice a week and not do anything else for the other three days! Again...I was proven wrong. For my freshman year, not only did I have 8 AM classes, I had 8 AM classes every.single.day. Monday through Friday. Talk about torture....keep in mind freshman the chances of this happening to you is very high. Do NOT get your hopes up for a two day week like I did, you will be heart broken.

3. Going into class and one of the first things the professor says is...."if you're looking for an easy course, do not expect it from this class."

Listen, I do not ever expect my classes to be so easy that I never have to do work. I was prepared FULLY for how hard college can be. BUT.....I am already traumatized by the fact that I have to be in school after a three month long, beautiful, lazy, uneventful summer vacation. Dragging myself out of bed at 6:30 AM when I was getting up at noon for 90 days straight, then driving to school in the worst traffic possible, to deal with the worst parking a college can possibly offer just to hear "Hi guys welcome back! By the way, drop this course if you want an easy A." is NOT how I wanted my first day of school to go. I AM NOT IN THE MOOD, DO NOT TEST ME TODAY. & last, but also most definitely the least....

4. Teachers who assign homework like their class is the only class you are taking...

Again, I do not mean to sound like I expected to come into college doing absolutely no work, and I was fully warned that there is a lot more work in college than in high school. BUT, when you have a teacher that assigns 120 pages worth of reading out of a textbook, then a five page reflection paper on that reading, plus two pop quizzes you have to study for that also comes every single week for ONE SINGLE CLASS...it can be mentally and physically exhausting. This legitimately happened to me in one of my classes. I am just confused as to what the professor's goal was...to educate us or to see how many of us would die from the stress put on us. My money is on to see our deaths.

WELL, now that I have possibly scared any incoming freshman coming into college....have fun!

Lol, no totally kidding. For every bad thing to expect in college there is probably at least three things that will make up for it. College can be fun, but if someone wrote an article letting me know about some letdowns of college, I probably would've been much more prepared for some heartbreaks and aggravations it can bring. But like I said, it still can be fun. Just be ready for some of the issues, and if you are then college should be a tough, but rewarding transition!!