Around the end of August is when college students really really start getting restless. The thoughts of stress and exams are buried far behind the memories of summer experiences and nights out. Home is quickly becoming too quiet and too routine. The start of the semester looms, and it's ten times easier to get excited about coming back to classes and seeing friends constantly than it is to worry about the oncoming anxiety. In the rush of getting textbooks and notebooks last minute, we've almost forgotten what it feels like to stand in line at the financial aid office.

1. The Financial Aid Office™

I wrote this article WHILE waiting on line, so if you don't remember what it's like to see the line wrapping around the corner, let me remind you. It's bad, it's a million times worse than you remember. Fear the financial aid office, fear it.

2. The awkward breaks between classes

No matter how hard you try to arrange your schedule to get rid of those weird 40-minute breaks, a few always manage to crawl in there. It's not per say fun to go from one 1.5 hour lecture to the next, but the strange break between the two leaves you with a crick in your routine. Do you go for a quick lunch or do you try to finish your essay?

3. Professors that start teaching during syllabus week

Definitely the best way to let your students know you mean business, definitely the worse test scores of the semester. Professors that pick up teaching and testing the very first week are going to get a lot of blank stares from their barely functioning classroom. We're not quite awake during syllabus week yet, you have to ease us in.

4. "Mandatory textbooks"

There is no good reason for a professor to assign a textbook they will never refer to. If there are 40 dollars leaving my bank account, I better be reading that textbook in preparation for every class period. Don't assign texts we're not going to use.

5. 8 AMs

The bane of my existence. You're probably looking at those two 8 AMs in your schedule telling yourself you'll totally wake up in time for them this semester but you're wrong. You were wrong last semester and the semester before that. Your blankets and the barely risen sun will win once again.