If you're a college kid home for the summer, you know this process all too well.

Stage 1: Excitement

Finals are over! This is beautiful. I am FREE! So much time to relax! I can’t wait to go home! Going home for the summer sounds ideal with 2 full semesters and finals behind you.

Stage 2: Relaxation

It hits you that you have no more studying or school work and your summer job doesn’t start for a week. You have minimal worries and responsibilities and you are loving it (if only it wasn’t so short lived)

Stage 3: Reuniting with hometown friends

You finally get to see everyone you have been missing for months and have about 15 mini reunions in 5 days. You catch up and it’s like you were never apart at all, and you’re in complete denial that half of your friends are going elsewhere for summer jobs, internships, and vacations and you’ll have to say “see you later” yet again.

Stage 4: Reality sets in

Ok, by this point the sun induced daydream is over and you realize you can only sit around for so long before people start expecting you to move, return to being an active member of society and…DO things. How dare they?

Stage 5: Chores

First up, your parents. They think now that you are home you can spend your summer cleaning the house, running errands, and doing yard work for free. You’re annoyed but will take it over organic chemistry, plus you are technically living under their roof…(for hopefully one of the last times, so maybe you’ll miss this in a couple years).

Stage 6: Work

Next up, your summer job starts up. The good part is you’re making money to be a less poor college student and will be able to fund your ambitious summer adventures.The bad news is your ambitious summer plans don't quite match up with your work schedule.

Stage 7: Boredom

Without all of those ambitious summer plans happening as often as you’d like, and all of your friends being equally as busy, you start to get tired of sitting around relaxing during your time off (which you didn’t even know was possible). You try to get creative, but there are only so many thing you can do…

Stage 8: Nostalgia/School-Sickness

With this new found boredom, you finally have time to think about how much fun you actually had while you were at school. you forget all about awful classes and professors (for the most part) and all you can think of right now is the good parts and especially the friends you miss.

Stage 9: Can we come back now?

You will continue trying to make you and your friends schedules match up and make as many of those far-fetched summer plans a reality, but in the meantime, there’s no denying you already have a countdown until when you can be back in your place with your people and back to reality.

Hang in there fellow college students. Fall will be here before we know it