The new semester calls for new notebooks, finding your way to your new classes, and essentially starting all over again. Luckily, one thing stays the same: your friends! Getting back to school means reuniting with the people you've missed most over the month-long break. And there are definitely some essentials to getting back into the swing of things. Here are 8 things you and your friends will do when you get back to school.

1. Scream

If you see the people around you covering their ears, you know you're doing it right. Whether you met up over break, or are seeing each other for the first time since finals week, the official reunion calls for some serious lung power (and some jumping hugs).

2. Unpack for each other

No one likes unpacking, but when your friends tell you about all the stopping they did over break, a full-on fashion breaks out. You know you bought good stuff when your friends are already eyeing to borrow. Queue: "Strut" by the Cheetah Girls.

3. Share schedules

If you haven't already, you'll spend a good hour or two figuring out who you'll be eating breakfast with on Mondays and what you'll be going to the gym with your friends on Thursdays.

4. Go food shopping

Whether you like Whole Foods or Costco, stocking up on snacks and microwavable meals in a must. Just don't go when you're hungry.

5. Go on a Target run

Because food shopping wasn't enough. Now you need new shampoo, deodorant, and probably more snacks.

6. Figure out where your classes are

This isn't your first time and the rodeo, but it never hurts to brush up on campus geography.

7. Get some food

Let's face it. You weirdly missed that one thing from the dining hall that you just couldn't replicate at home. Now's the time to pig out with your buddies.

8. Watch a movie

It's been a long day and you and your friends have decided to reward yourselves by staying in the night before classes start. Happy spring semester!