The anticipation of turning 21 is one of the biggest preoccupation in today's youth. It sounds like going out every weekend, meeting sophisticated older people, meeting unsophisticated older people, and being as free as can be while permitted by law. This may all but true until we get that wake-up call that we're graduating in a year and that means we have to figure out how to be adults in what feels like four minutes.

It's time to start applying, finding, and getting internships if we want any chance of getting a real job in a year. It can be a tedious and heinous process. There's a lot of thoughts that enter ones mind during this time.

At first, you're excited and feeling ready to start the process and find a real opportunity.

You may start out by talking to someone who has already been through the process, or an adult in your desired career field. They tend to talk a lot and say a lot of job slang you might not understand.

You don't want to seem like you haven't done your research so you nod along.

So you start to fill out a few applications, and when filling out your qualifications you suddenly draw a blank.

You worry your previous experience in your field isn't good enough so you think about your interpersonal communication skills, until you realize you may not be the best with people, either.

You might get an interview, and because you got a response at all you head right to it, full of excitement. This is until you realize it is either an errand running job or something you aren't interested in at all.

Or when they like you more than you like them and they try to make jokes with you to mend the generational disconnect, but it only makes you more uncomfortable.

So you awkwardly finish the interview and leave forever, only to feel discouraged about ever finding what you want.

You're back to the drawing board and spending hours and hours looking for anything you might like that you're also qualified for.

You send in a million applications and are left to wait for what feels like an eternity for anyone to give you a chance.

Or you make it to your first good interview, and realize that it's the perfect situation-- a stepping stone to the job you want, paid, a convenient location--and that only makes the interview scarier.

They ask you specifics about your expertise and you don't want to lie, but you also don't want to make yourself sound like you've never done anything in your life.

Or you're a little too friendly.

At the end of the interview they ask you if you have any questions, and you're trying to play it cool but on the inside you're thinking, "Yes, WILL YOU PLEASE PLEASE HIRE ME?"

You're left to watch all of your friends get their own internships while you wait to hear back from the one you want.

Until you finally get that call that you got it!! And you celebrate maybe a little too hard.

But when you finally get your internship, you can't contain your excitement. You're basically a real adult now.