A lot of people get their bachelor’s degree in four years, they bust their butts and cram all the classes they need in just four short years. However, there are some people who stretch it out to five years. Before you start to cringe and think that we must have failed classes or just weren’t as motivated as our peers, some of us see it as we are the lucky ones.
We know this place like the back of our hand.
We have spent the last four years walking the halls and greens. This means we can wait till the last second to get out of our comfy beds after a long summer and get to our class because we know exactly where it is at and probably what seat we will get once we actually show up. Another thing is that we know the shortcuts. So as we sit longer in the student center and enjoy drinking our third coffee of the morning because as everyone starts to get up to file out the main doors to walk to class, we leave a few minutes after and walk through that door in the cafeteria nobody notices or thinks it leads to the kitchen when actually it just leads to some old hallway with a couple offices and exits right next to the building we need to go to.
We are old enough not to care about, dress to impress.
Spending our lower class years thinking about how everyone is going to judge you on what you wear. As fifth year seniors we know that most people are actually looking at what we are wearing and if they are we aren’t here to impress them. Am I going to show up to my early morning class in some old sweat pants that I just got done sleeping in, you betcha! I can spend the extra ten minutes in sleeping then getting ready in the morning. And yes, I woke up like this.
We are the Grandpas and Grandmas of campus.
After our four years we know all the tricks to the game. If we need to take a class and there are two different professors teaching it, well we don’t need to guess which is the hard-ass and the one that brings her dog to class with her! Also we have been here long enough to know when people are tabling in the student center or out on the green we know the path to avoid them or we just mess with them. Oh, you are here asking students who they are voting for, for president? Well I’m still in favor of Vermin Supreme…
We are not trying to make any friends.
We just spent four years making lifelong friendships, and now most of them are in different states working or are getting married and having kids. When we come to class we will talk to pretty much anyone in that class but once they start with the Facebook friend request or party invites we will drop them in a second. We are already getting sick of our Facebook news feed filled with baby pictures and how our friend just got a huge promotion. Also why do we want to go out and pay four dollars for a beer when we can stay home with our dog and get drunk on an eight dollar six pack. Its simple math.
We have perfected the procrastinated induced all-nighter.
Since we have been practicing this for the last four years and with the knowledge we have picked up on our professors. We know exactly how long we can wait to do all of our homework in a single night. We know that we shouldn’t be doing this but we know we can pull it off. Why not just wait till Sunday night and open a bottle of wine and binge homework?
