Freshman year is full of ups and downs, from making new friends to studying for finals. As my first year of college comes to a close, I realized how relevant New Girl was for relatable freshman moments.
1. When you realize you'll be living away from home
No parents, no rules! You're finally all on your own, everything is new and exciting, and you're going to make new friends! This year is going to be awesome!
2. The rest of August/September
You really miss your parents and their rules. Everything is changing, you can't find anything, and you miss your friends. This year is going to suck.
3. Being independent
Doing everything without any help pretty much went like this for the first few months.
4. Trying the college food for the first time
The first time you tasted this stuff you couldn't believe they could legally pass it off as food. Soon enough, though, you get used to it and couldn't wait until Thursday when the dining hall had your favorite pizza.
5. Making new friends
Oh, you're an accounting major? We should totally be friends so you can help me with my math homework.
6. Getting ready for your first big college test
It's gonna be so easy. You're gonna do great, dawg.
7. Flunking your first big college test
Studying the way you did in high school (aka looking over your notes once before going to bed and again the next morning before taking the test) doesn't work in college. Good thing you realized this early on and were able to improve your study techniques.
8. Going out for the first time
You knew you looked hot. You were beyond excited to turn up with your friends. Too bad when you got to the party, you literally had no room to move and it was not nearly as great as you had imagined.
9. Seeing the girl from English getting down at a party
Wasn't expecting that.
10. Loud neighbors
Don't they realize that the walls are literally paper thin and you know everything about that puppy Aunt Sally bought last month?
11. Any time you're forced to be an adult
Scheduling your own appointments, doing all the laundry and cleaning, making (or ordering) your own food--what a life.
12. When that one professor finally gives you a good grade
You know what I'm talking about. They've been giving you something lower than what you expected to get all semester and finally give you the grade you actually deserve. Or you finally got it together in that class and actually did well on an assignment for once. Either way...
13. Thinking you have your crap together
Getting great grades, having a blossoming social life, realizing you never gained "the freshman fifteen"...anything is possible--you can't wait to take on the world!
14. Then realizing you don't
Flunking a test or two, getting in a fight with your friends, eating some bad pizza, realizing you have to do this for at least three more years.
15. But through it all, at least freshman year taught you some stuff
Even if it wasn't all that much...
