This is for anyone who knows what it is like to be a student-athlete in college. We are arguably the busiest students on campus because 50 percent of our time is devoted to early morning lifts, shooting drills, treadmill workouts, three hour bus rides to games, etc. And while each sport is so incredibly unique, there are commonalities that can be found among all student-athletes. As a collegiate student-athlete myself, here are a few things that I think my fellow college athletes can find #relatable.

1. Loving to eat and sleep, yet somehow never getting enough of either

When we aren't practicing, we either feel the need to stuff our faces with food or stuff our faces into our pillows. One of the most difficult tasks is trying to do homework while your growling stomach continues to interrupt your thoughts. Then, you can't decide whether it's worth it to put an end to the rumblings by eating a lot and potentially making yourself sick during practice or not. All the while, you're fighting back the urge to collapse onto your bed and skip practice altogether. That is the struggle.

2. Showing up to class in sweaty practice clothes and having everyone judge us for it

We've all had a semester where practice times conflicted with class times, and then the students in the classes that immediately followed practice got the pleasure of experiencing the smelliest, most repulsive versions of ourselves possible. Congratulations to those lucky students whose only exposure to us was when we looked like total slobs.

3. Having no social life

We start to find it humorous when our friends ask us to hang out on weekends (for the twentieth time) and we respond (also for the twentieth time) with, "Sorry, I can't go; I have *insert sport here*." Apparently it's a little-known fact that student-athletes literally have no free time whatsoever.

4. Living our dream

As hectic as our daily schedules can get and as awful as it is to wake up after tough workouts feeling like our bodies are about to fall apart, we are extremely blessed to participate in the sports we love at the collegiate level. Even though trying to beat personal records, gain titles or win championships while pursuing college degrees will never become easy, we know that it will always be worth it.