Freedom, being with friends all the time, and living on your own. We all know these as some of the great things about being in college. However, when it comes right down to it, college gets rough. We complain, procrastinate, stress out, and straight up feel like we are losing our minds. Between goings to class, doing schoolwork, and trying to find time to relax (maybe), we can all relate to the stresses that comes along with being in college and everything in between. What better way to relate these things to than one of the craziest, most insane, and sometimes funniest show on television, "Breaking Bad" (because you’re probably binging it instead of working anyway).
1. The enthusiastic teacher at 8:30 a.m.
When you wake up at the crack of dawn and you go to class, there is always that one teacher who is so enthusiastic about their subject and tries to get you excited when it’s too early to function.
2. The group project.
Oh, the dreaded group project. The time when the teacher wants everyone to get together outside of class to complete an assignment. But in reality you know you are probably going to be the one completing the whole thing because you get partnered up with the most unproductive people.
3. The seat stealer.
At least from my experience, you go to class every day and there is an unspoken rule that wherever you sit on the first day is probably going to be your seat for the rest of the semester. But we always have that one person who decides to switch it up one day, taking your seat, and leaving you feeling like a lost dog.
4. Your Gen Eds.
The one decision you actually have control over in college: your major. However, when you start taking classes you are forced to take all of your Gen Eds, aka, all of the classes that have nothing to do with your major but you are forced to take them anyway. For the most part, your Gen Eds will probably never really help you that much in the future but here we are…taking them anyway.
5. The feeling that you’re never really DONE.
With all of the work we are assigned in college it can get super overwhelming to the point that it seems never-ending. Even when you think you have completed everything, that little voice inside your head keeps telling you otherwise.
6. The art of bull-sh*tting.
When it comes to writing papers, all teachers want it to seem like we are experts on everything we are writing -- but come on, we aren’t. So when we are asked to talk about a subject we hardly know anything about, we tend to just go with the flow and try to convince the teacher we get it. Turns out some of us get really good at it…
7. Our constant need for coffee.
You just spent a total of three to four hours in class, did hours of homework, and somehow managed to do some extracurricular activities. So after all that when you can sit down and finally have a nice cup of coffee after a long day, no matter where you get it, it tastes like the best thing you have had all day.
8. Move-in day!
It’s been a long summer and everyone is finally ready to get back to school. You have set high expectations for this year and you intend to improve upon last year.
9. Going home for the weekend.
College is awesome, but taking a little time to go home and visit your parents, get home cooked meals, and maybe see some friends back home is always great. However, once you get home, chances are your parents try to get you to help around the house or maintain a curfew. But being at college for so long, we all have the same mentality of expecting complete freedom.
10. Having your connections.
In college, we meet all kinds of people in various social groups, and chances are if you get involved at school you have connections with lots of different people. Maybe you have your lunch buddies, teammates, club friends, or even sorority sisters and frat brothers. So chances are if someone asks you for help with something, you know where to go and who to talk to.
11. Your workload.
The usual thing that everyone complains about in college: the workload. Sometimes you feel like you have done nothing all day but work so when it finally turns to nighttime you just feel like this.
12. Sarcasm becomes part of your daily language.
Once you hit college your tolerance for everything going on starts to diminish as the year progresses. Chances are right about now everything you say ends up being a joke or said in a sarcastic way. It’s the only defense you have to maintain your sanity. You probably say things like this when you really don’t care what the person next to you is talking to you about.
13. The slow walkers.
The nonexistence sense of urgency of some walkers in college makes you wonder if they actually have anywhere to be. There you are trying to get to class on time and you have a line of four or five friends blocking the entire pathway, walking as if their life depended on making you late. Don’t you have somewhere to be?
14. Coming to the final conclusion.
Although we are here to study and get a degree, college is an experience. Everything in between those times we go to class are what allows us to learn about ourselves and lessons we are going to take with us after college, and "Breaking Bad" understands that as well.