It's been a month since I left college, and my summer has started. I keep expecting it to get better, but it really hasn't, because my friends aren't with me every minute of every day anymore. Coming back from college, you expect summer to be as great as your summers in the past -- if not better -- but reality sets in when you come home and realize it's going to be one long summer. After a year of going out, eating out and spending all your money, you realize: now that you're in college, your summer is really all about seeing how much money you can make in the three months you're home and getting back into that bod you had before freshman year. So if you're like me and all you have been doing this summer is going to the gym, working every day, and counting down the days until you're back at school with those friends who feel like family, continue reading.
In honor of Season Four of "Orange Is The New Black," this is what a college kid's summer is like, as told by the popular Netflix series.
1. That moment you imagine when you'll reunite with your best friends
If you go to Oswego, this will probably be you and your friends on the stage at Alleys syllabus week.
2. Dragging yourself to the gym everyday and eating gross, healthy food
You want to get into the best shape of your life so that everyone barely recognizes you when you return back to school for first semester, but in reality, you will have a gut again by week three.
3. Being lonely and just wanting to talk to your friends
...But they actually have a life and other friends, unlike you, so they are too busy to answer your Facetime.
4. When you unexpectedly run into a friend from school while at home
It's like that feeling you get when you magically find money in your pockets.
5. Those moments you're with your home friends and they just don't get you like your school friends do
You feel like the mood is "OK, cool, bye," and that's when you really start to miss your friends and just want to be back at school.
Although it's only been a month, and we may have a few more months at home, it's OK to count down to move-in day -- down to the exact minute -- because if you're like me, school is your new home, those friends are now your family and those everyday memories you make, big or small, are now your life.
