Defined in a super legit dictionary I made up,
Graduation Moving Truck Syndrome is an affliction where seniors and other anxious college students start to pack up weeks, even months in advance to graduating. You can self-diagnose yourself with Graduation Moving Truck Syndrome if you see the following symptoms:
You know you’re graduating at the end of Spring/Summer so you pile all of your winter clothes on your bed.
After you make this messy pile, you proceed to stack them into neat little towers of sweaters, hoodies, and warm poofy socks. It isn’t until you finish that you realize you have nowhere to put your organized conglomeration of clothes so you just kind of stare at it.
If you have made a late night trip to Wal-Mart to buy moving boxes.
So I may or may not have done this (they are like a dollar sue me). Purchasing moving boxes and filling them with things you know you won’t use again is a classic sign. Often times these boxes get moved into the common area of your dorm/apartment. Keep in mind this might annoy your roommate if they aren’t graduating the same time you are.
Your search history is full of apartments near where you think you will be working.
Whether you have a job on lockdown or not, we are all guilty of house hunting à la HGTV style. You may be so sick of your current living situation you have already emailed the apartment to see specific rates. I’m not saying a little research ahead of time is a bad thing… in fact go ahead and start doing this.
Finally, you can’t stop counting the days.
You know exactly when you’re going to graduate down to the millisecond, and you tell your friends daily. This still qualifies as a symptom of Graduation Moving Truck Syndrome because your mind has already moved on, and since your mind has moved on it becomes hard to focus on your classes. This is where we see the parasitic Senioritis come into play.
If you read this far looking for a remedy for Graduation Moving Truck Syndrome I’m afraid I don’t have one for you. Just avoid renting a U-Haul and sitting inside it with a tub of ice-cream.
