The first week of college can always be a rollercoaster of emotions. From new classes, to new housing, to new friends, to new life struggles, the beginning of any new school year can always offer so much. Of course, there'll be times when life and higher education will be all too surreal and dramatic, like a reality television show -- "The Real Housewives"-esque, even. So as we prepare ourselves to commence a fresh new episode of education, here's seven moments the "The Real Housewives" preached about your first week of college.
1. Moving Day Tests You
Whether it be that you're too anxious from the moving-in part; or perhaps your stuff got messed up and damaged during the trip to the dorms or apartment; or maybe you feel like nothing's going your way and you just wanna collapse and cry, moving in starts the struggles of that first week. Whatever it may be, hold them tears with grace and pretend like you know what you're doing -- it goes a long way.
2. That First Godforsaken 8AM Class
For an entire term, you'll suffer dearly. Whatever the reason be, you're in an 8AM class; yep, you're one of those people now. So every morning you don't convince yourself to skip it, you have to summon all the willpower in all the fibers in your body to rise from your bed and learn about cells or something. But the first day that you wake extra early for your 8AM lecture...that's just cruel.
3. Peers Don't Understand Unassigned-Assigned Seats
I get it: you're a simple person. So am I, which is why I always pick my one seat for the rest of the term in every one of my classes. It's not written in gold. I don't own anything. Every seat is public property -- but if I sit in a desk, and someone else has the indecency of taking from me, how dare you? It's called an unassigned-assigned seat. Please get with the program, and don't disrespect my seat or my mild weakness of sitting somewhere else. I don't like it.
4. Setting the Bar High for the First Week -- And That's Enough
The first week of classes was made for the best impressions and self-efforts. If you're forced to pass classes AND function as a social creature, we all dream of a fine life where we can balance responsibility and be awesome on a day-to-day human being basis. But most of us can testify: the first week of a term is for winning, what follows, is tragedy and low-standards all day everyday.
5. 'The Meeting New People' Challenge
We've all probably felt a little incorrectness from entering a room filled with strangers. To be fair, there's strangers everywhere we go, and It happens all the time, in all types of settings. But there's something about a college classroom that just makes it more...intimately awkward. You're in there to learn, and for the better or worst, you need to start meeting them people if you wanna survive to the next level. Best part: First week of college is when you find out if you can make quick friends or not.
6. Someone Gets Too Deep During Class Intros
You know, sometimes people forget that the professor just asked for name, major, and year. There's always those few people who think they're in a mini camp session or something, because they give too much detail about their person -- information no one asked for or even wants to hear. So good luck to you if you find yourself listening to someone's endeavor from Mobile, Alabama or something.
7. Powering Through Summer Brain Drain
Sadly, after months of doing nothing but relaxing, partying, vacationing, and living life to the greatest, now you're being asked to power though Calculus 4 or write papers or make presentations or solve the meaning of life -- whatever professors want from us nowadays. And tragically, but honestly, you can't even write properly because -- let's be honest -- your handwriting looks like that of a sleepy four-year-old. It's a true struggle, but being able to power through the summer brain is the realest testament to the first week of college.
