Going back to school after being home for a month, or if you're lucky like me, over a month, it is hard getting back into the swing of things. Everyone wants to go back to school to see their friends, but no one wants to leave the warm comfort of their own bed, their mom's homemade cooking, and doing nothing but sleeping, Netflix, and catching up with high school friends. To get you in the mood to be back at school and ready to study hard, here are some things about going back told by Parks and Recreation gifs. Enjoy!
1. When you reunite with your roommates.
Some people haven't seen their roommates since they left because they live to far or are with their families, so that moment when you come back after the long time apart is exciting! Just thinking about all the fun you are going to have again with each other makes this semester back at school a little more bearable.
2. Trying to eat the gross dining hall food again
After having such nice home cooked meals and eating out at your favorite restaurants around home, it's hard to get back to eating the gross dining hall food again. Probably will stick to any alternative.
3. Doing work in your classes again
It's not easy going back to school work again. Especially if your professors jump right into it and start teaching the first week, which unfortunatley, most do. Hang in there! You will get through this just as you did last semester.
4. Getting to go out with your friends again on sylly week
The real reason we are all excited to go back to school: to see our friends and go every night that first week.
5. Going back to your school diet
Not having anyone to cook for you and you are back to doing it yourself. Making ramen is the easy go to especially if you are in a dorm. Back to pigging out in your dorm instead of venturing out in the cold to get food!
6. How you and your friends all look during sylly week
You and all your friends are finally back together to go out in your big group again. Everyone gets a little too excited being the first week out together in weeks, but you all have the best times and the best stories that always will start with "yeah that happened during sylly week".
7. Going to see the therapy puppies after one week of stress
Luckily West Chester offers therapy puppies all the time. You know I will be taking a visit to those puppies after struggling through the first week back. And also because I'll be missing my own pets at home.
8. When your professor decides to start teaching instead of just handing out the syllabus
Come on! It's called sylly week for a reason. It's our first week back, no one is ready to work. We need time to adjust back into things, but we are all going to have that one professor who doesn't care and starts teaching the material right away.
9. Responsibilities start hitting you like
Realizing you are back on your own, and have actual stuff to do and take care of and it all starts hitting you at once.
10. When your professor just hands out the syllabus and lets you leave
Yes! You hopefully have a couple professors who just hand out the syllabus and let you leave because they themselves are not ready to teach again either and will need time to get back into things. It is at this point you and your friend realize this is actually going to be a cool class with a chill professor.
11. Showing up to your first class of the semester
You have thought about this day for weeks. The day your classes actually start, and although you think you are prepared, you aren't, and most likely will just show up not looking presentable at all considering you probably just rolled out of bed.
12. When your alarm starts going off
Sleeping in until noon everyday at home was such a luxury, and nothing is worse than hearing your alarm go off for your 9 am class. You thought you would be able to get up at that time, it's not that early, but you were wrong. So wrong.
13. Buying your textbooks
Sure let's just make all the books cost hundreds of dollars! You are a broke college student, who is paying all this money for tuition, but let's add books and make them expensive. Oh, and they are required!
14. How you look dancing at the frats again
Nothing beats being back dancing with your friends looking like an idiot going all out! I've waited to dance like crazy for 6 weeks now, so point towards the nearest frat!
15. How it feels trying to get back into going to the gym
Yeah, you tried to work out over break, but that lasted for about a week until you decided you could take the break off. Having a gym on campus or in your building is so convenient and you know you should start going again after eating so much over the holidays, but after about 20 minutes of working out, you are already so sore.
