Whether you're returning for your second year or your last, pretty much all college kids can relate to the stir-crazy feeling you get when you're so close to going back to school! If you're like me and happen to go to St. John Fisher College where summer is four months long, you probably feel this even more! Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love my school and my long summers, but after month three I'm itching to get back to school and my friends! But let's face it, it goes in stages and as we get back to the groove we all tend to realize how good we had it back home. So here are the five stages we all go through when going back to college for another year of shenanigans;

Stage 1: Pure Exhilaration

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That first weekend back with the crew, and you just know it's going down. Every off campus house is having something, and for incoming sophomores, we're no longer the babies on campus (aka the first ones kicked out of the overcrowded house party).

Stage 2: FREE AGAIN!!

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When you're at school, you make all your own decisions and your own rules. Pretty much, you feel like the adult everyone expects you to be. This is especially refreshing after being back under your parents roof for the summer and going head to head with them over, well, pretty much everything.

Stage 3: Where'd all my money go?

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We can all relate to this. No matter your school, whether you're a resident or commuter, boy or girl, tall or short- by week two you're eating ramen and calling home for money. We all get to school with those summer tips and full wallets, but after feeling like you're rolling in it for a solid week, you are rolling in only one thing; debt.

Stage 4: Dining Hall food? I'll pass.

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Although Fisher has arguably one of THE best dining halls (thanks Lackmann), we all inevitably get sick of our dining hall's food. This is when we start calling home begging for a those home cooked meals we took for granted all summer.

Stage 5: Homework? Tests? Projects? OH MY.

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So by now you're almost to midterms and you're feeling the stress for sure. All nighters are daily, you no longer have a social life and all you want is to be in your bed, but what is sleep anyway? Only a few more weeks to make it out of the semester. Who's really counting though?