SIKE!!!! If you came here looking for an owner’s manual on how to be an adult, you’re one of about...I don't know, a lot.

Adulting is basically getting old against your will and having to do grown-up things like taxes and paying off student loans for the college you never really liked going to in the first place.

Nothing says “welcome to adulthood” more than waking up to your alarm clock and feeling that single tear roll down your face as you come to realize you can no longer ask your mom for five more minutes.

We all know the feeling of adulthood, mainly because it smacks you in the face like that 57% on your last chemistry exam.

At first, you thought adulthood was that sense of freedom you felt when you could leave your dorm without having to ask permission.

Then, you thought it was the overwhelming pressure to succeed in school while trying to lose the freshman-too-many pounds.

Now, you’re sort of stuck between the dimensions of the past, present, and future.

You look back at your memories on Facebook and see how skinny you really were, even though you thought you were somewhere between pudgy and morbidly obese depending on the day, and you try to live in the present because that’s what all the successful adults say-especially the Dalai Lama, but then your parents call to tell you that they hope you’re making the right decisions in life because they will forever affect your future from here on out and that’s an incredible amount of pressure to put on someone who had to ask permission to use the bathroom last year and-and-and-

Breathe.

Adulthood is a whirlwind of spontaneity and comfort foods, but mostly, adulthood is experience.

Yes, we kind of got thrown into this fast-paced society filled with rights and wrongs that didn’t exist five years ago, but we, as well as our society, is ever changing.

No one expects you to get up at the crack of dawn and run 5 miles around campus before paying off $12,000 of your student debt and taking an anatomy exam before noon (honestly, if you had $12,000 lying around to pay off student debt, you probably shouldn’t have student debt).

Regardless, society, meaning your parents and some other people who are relatively close to you, just want you to be prepared for the real A-word, and I know that you’re stressing you out to the max trying to prepare yourself as well.

Right now, we are somewhere in the preparation stages of life, kind of like those awkward half-puberty middle school days.

We haven’t quite taken our giant leap of faith into adulthood, but we certainly have tripped a couple of times (or like 50...a day) getting there.

So for now, keep doing what you do best, or worst, even if that means making every day a mini cheat-day, because in the end, you’re not the only one eating cheesecake in a corner wearing your workout pants with the tag still hanging off. And remember, if any T.V. series can teach you about adulthood, it's The Office.