Two-and-a-half months seems like a lifetime when you’re counting down the hours until graduation. It seems like each day is never-ending while you get lost under more and more piles of school work. But fear not my friends, those two-and-a-half months will fly by faster than you think, and before you know it, you’ll be walking across that stage, freshly minted, fake diploma in hand while the real thing gets sent to you four months later. If you’re anything like me, you know you’ll be riddled with anxiety once that day comes, wishing to start college over again, because what is real life? But no, we wished it to end, and now it’s ending.
Here are nine signs you are not ready for post-college life:
1. You pay for your Dunkin' with quarters
Come on people, you know you’ve done it––gone to Dunks to get the perfect afternoon pick-me-up only to realize you have no cash and your bank account is dryer than Spongebob in Sandy’s dome. So you hand the window dude $2.50 in quarters and think of ways to come up with enough money to go out this Friday.
2. You think working at Target is a real job
Hey, it's not like you’re spending your afternoons babysitting anymore, right? At least you have a job where you make enough to actually get your tax return back.
3. You call your mom any time the house makes a weird noise
In my defense, it totally sounded like there was someone trying to break into the house. Who knew the heat could sound like an elephant stampede when it was kicking back on? I definitely didn't.
4. You spend countless hours a night on Pinterest and Tumblr
Nope, didn’t outgrow this one with high school. Sit down at 5 p.m. to tackle the mounds of homework you have, and next thing you know it’s 11 and all you’ve done is create another new pin board dedicated to fitness and reblog millions of "Star Wars" GIFs. Whoops, there’s always tomorrow right?
5. You wear sweatpants just about every day
How can you be expected to hold a job that requires you to wear tights and heels every day when your daily wardrobe consists of sweatpants and Nikes?
6. You take a mental health day at least once a week
Only have four days of classes? Only show up on three of those days? Sounds good to me. Who doesn't need a four-day weekend every week?
7. You can binge watch a whole season of "New Girl" in one night like it's your job
Test tomorrow? Yes. Paper due Tuesday? Mhmm. Watch all of season 3 of "New Girl" tonight instead? You betcha I will. You know you’ll get it done anyway, and who doesn't need their daily Schmidt fix?
8. You have a panic attack whenever someone asks you what your future plans are
I don't know what I want to do with my life; I don't even know what I want for dinner tonight. How are we supposed to know what we want to do when we spent our four years in college changing majors three times and struggling to remember which building we needed to be in each day?
9. You can only think about how awesome and carefree this summer is going to be
Floating down the Saco, solo cup in hand? Yup. Tailgating at every possible country concert? Of course. That’s what summer is for; why not spend your last real summer of freedom doing something fun? You’ll have a full time job where you don't get the summers off by next year.
So live it up these next two-and-a-half months, because before we know it, we will be done with college, wishing we could do it all over again.
