If you're taking summer classes, you don't just know the struggle-- you live the struggle. Summer is both a wonderful and terrible period of life for the average college student. It seems like if you're not working 60+ hours a week, you're stuck paying for classes to meet your graduation deadline. Sometimes, you have both.
And then there are those lucky individuals who seem to have nothing to do but spend money, go to exotic locations, and/ or party. What? How? Where can I sign up?
How I Met Your Mother attempts to, and arguably successfully, depict the very real hardships early twenties and thirties experience living on their own for the first time in a very difficult world. A very real reality for twenties and thirties is summer classes-- let's face it, without education, just how far will you get in life?
1. Summer classes are offered at the worst hours.
Seriously. 8 AM classes in the summer when some of us can actually sleep in? What could be worse?! Or, my personal favorite-- classes that are only two weeks long. Sounds amazing, right? WRONG. These classes meet from 8-12 and then 1-4. Every day. For a month. Save me.
2. Professors assume that their class is the only thing in your life right now.
...You mean the study of politics in a systematically segregated society isn't the only thing on your mind right now?
3. Because all of us would willingly choose to digest a textbook and regurgitate it into half-hearted papers, essays and discussion posts.
Online classes are havens-- havens I tell you-- for passive aggressive, "I don't give a darn" comments. Discussion boards are supposed to supply traditional classroom discussion, but when you put requirements on it, it just seems like a waste of time and energy.
4. People come out of the woodwork for summer classes.
Summer classes are popular among distance learning students, especially online classes. I attend a tiny public liberal arts university, and working a few jobs on campus I know just about everyone, at least by face. However, it never ceases to amaze me that people I've never seen before become my classmates in summer classes. Hello to you, too, stranger!
5. You're ultimately bettering yourself... Even when it's beautiful outside.
So sit back, relax, and realize that what you're learning now will indeed help you in your future... Or at least earn you a degree. And that helps with the whole career and love life fiasco, right? Right. Make this summer legendary. 
