As August arrives, despite our best intentions to make the high expectations that we had in our heads a reality, let's take a moment to reflect on what most of us have realistically been able to accomplish this summer:

1. Sleep

The #1 priority of any and all summers: catching up on the sleep we lost during the year…and then some. With no classes to attend, our beds were our only commitment, and committed to them we were. Sleeping the day away, with a little bit of Netflix in between, and the occasionaly exersize downstairs to grab a snack; I'd say that's a summer well spent.

2. The dreadful part-time job

We thought we were being responsible, we thought we’d be making bank; but we never expected the exhaustion and unrewarding benefits that belonged to a part-time job. Literally ask us what we did this summer, and instead of the response of, “I went to…” or, “I took a trip to…”, we will say “I worked...” with the depressing realization that our summer was consumed by a job that didn't even pay us nearly as close to what we expected or deserved

3. Treating ourselves... at the cheapest places possible

With the great money that our part-time jobs above pays, the activities and food we can afford limits itself; so when the words, "Let's go out to dinner tonight" are said, the automatic response from the second party tends to be, "something cheap". With that repetitive phrase, we turn our broke summers to the single $ sign on Yelp to list out our choices. And if that fails us, we resort to hanging out at friends' houses and the raiding of their kitchens to find relief.

4. Pokemon

Along with free activities comes the one and only Pokemon Go. Staying away from Rattatas and searching out Dragonites, as half the population is enthralled by the obsession, while the other half finds complete stupidity in glaring down at a phone while yelling Pokemon gibberish at each other. "Catching them all" at Pokestops has become the crazy phenomenon that the summer of 2016 will unfortunately always be remembered for.

5. Planning for next summer

As this summer comes to a close, we already turn to the yearning for next summer, creating bucket lists of things we need to, and this time, WILL accomplish, aspirations of which we simply couldn't find the time or means to check off this summer. And a girl can dream, so we dream away with new high expectations for next summer to be the best one yet.

Summer of 2017, where you at?