So now that you're entering your third or fourth year of college, it seems like there are a million new and great things to look forward to. At the same time, there's a veritable cornucopia of unpleasant issues to confront. Here are just a few of the wins and loses you'll face in the latter half of your college experience.
1. You finally get the nice apartment with a view.
No more tiny, cramped dorms that smell like a disturbing mix of old vomit and lemon pledge. No more frat guys running up and down the halls and stealing your exit signs. The fact that you have your own kitchen is exciting enough to spend hours online watching cooking videos and vowing that you will become a master chef. Plus, you get to buy all the cool kitchen gadgets that you've always seen at home and never understood! Which leads to.
2. Holy Cow is this expensive!
Not to mention the fact that a frying pan is at least 15 bucks, but with a spatula and having to buy the actual food, it seems like a small fortune just to make French toast! Let's try something less exquisite. How about pancakes. Have you seen the price of maple syrup?
3. So much less drama.
Now that you've chosen who to live with, and survived a few years of wildness, you have been able to bond with the genuine friends who you know you'll be close to for life. You've escaped the people who you learned were truly crazy (not the good kind of crazy) and surrounded yourself with positive forces to help you succeed this next year! If not, do so now.
4. Your classes have gone from zero to 100 in ten seconds.
Or was it two years. Nonetheless, your upcoming schedule is killer and simply reading the course titles takes effort. No more underwater basket weaving for you. Plus even more academically nerve-wracking is that fact that.
5. Your various graduate school exam is coming up.
Whether it's a GRE, the MCAT, LSAT, or DAT (or various other acronyms) that fact that it is around the corner is enough to scare anyone's pants off.
6.You can finally drink. Thank God.
Welcome to the twenty-fun club! Wow, it's nice to be legal because now you have a new way of coping with all of the stress detailed in items 2 through 5! No wonder the drinking age comes conveniently at the point in life where you really need it. (Self-medicate responsibly.)
7. With every minute you are getting closer to being financially cut off.
I mean, who can really blame the parents? After so long of paying tuition, your insurance, and much more, it makes sense that in your twenties they would deem you responsible enough to support yourself. Adulthood is here and there's no stopping it! Maybe if I cry they'll take pity. Please, daddy?
8. People are getting engaged. And married.
Another Holy Cow! It seems like yesterday when you were playing with your childhood friends at the pool and now they're walking down the aisle? It's astounding, but you also realize that twenty-two is not a ridiculous age to get married at... after all, your mom had you when she was twenty-four. Which could be you in two years? Wait, what? No way.
9. Gone are the days of partying like a freshman.
You have classes you actually have to study for, so you can't hit up every party that every fraternity throws. Pick your favorite frat and just go to those parties. If you're being real, you would probably rather stay in your apartment and marathon some Netflix show with your roommates and a bottle of wine instead of deal with frat boys drunk off of cheap beer anyways.
10. You have to adult soon.
If being financially cut off scares you, just think of all the adult things you have to start doing. You have to make your own doctor's appointments, remember to go to the dentist twice a year, make sure your car has oil, make sure you know how to check your car's oil, how to do taxes, what the heck all these insurance things mean, etc. Terrifying.
11. Resumes? Jobs? Internships?
Gone are the days of using summer to reboot. You can't just lay by the pool or on a towel in the sand seven days a week anymore. You have to think of your resume. Employers are going to wonder what you spent your summers doing. Did you tan or did you have an internship at a prestigious business in your related field?
