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A College Senior's Final First Week Thoughts As Told By Joe Goldberg

Hello, you.

Jan 27, 2020

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Hello there. Who are you? Based on the course load, spring semester. Your first week of classes end early, yet fill me with stress. You have different sides to you. I want to experience all of those sides. You like to make the seniors feel nostalgic, reminding us all that this blissfully strained existence on a college campus is quickly coming to an end. Do you want to help me or hurt me? I have to know. Good thing I have all semester to figure you out. Your mediocre meals and vending machine Starbucks triple-shots fuel my motivation. Yet your thirsty Thursdays allow me to experience a short-lived sense of ferocious freedom. Regardless of how hungover I will be Friday morning, I still have to attend class. It's like you have me on a leash. I guess I'll have to deal with it for now. I'll see you in the morning, You.

Looking at how busy your last semester schedule is like...

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When you are receiving constant class notifications...

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Trying to motivate yourself to do work by saying...

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Then distracting yourself from homework by posting on social media.

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Passing people you recognize from freshman year but have no recollection of who they are.

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Realizing that you got a 100% on your open note syllabus quiz...

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and then proceeding to treat yourself as a reward...

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to then realize that you don't have the money to treat yourself...

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but continue to do it anyway.

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Trying to motivate yourself to stay in your classes and graduate by saying...

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then realizing that after this semester, college is over.

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Starting off your thirsty Thursday at 7 pm like...

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and then wondering why your friend looks like this by 11 pm.

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How you're feeling when you go to bed that night with the spinnies.

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Waking up on Friday morning at 10 am like...

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and rushing to your class that starts at 10:10.

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How you sit in the back of the classroom pretending like you're not hungover...

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and your internal rage when your teacher calls you out on it.

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Trying to find your future knowing you're graduating in a few months.

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Finally realizing that its your very last semester so you have to make it the best one yet.

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So with all that's said and done, you very well might be the best thing to ever happen to me. I am infatuated with you. I am obsessed with you. I gotta soak you up before you slip through the cracks of my fingers. Because soon, love, you will be in the past.

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A College Senior's Final First Week Thoughts As Told By Joe Goldberg

Hello, you.

Looking at how busy your last semester schedule is like...

When you are receiving constant class notifications...

Trying to motivate yourself to do work by saying...

Then distracting yourself from homework by posting on social media.

Passing people you recognize from freshman year but have no recollection of who they are.

Realizing that you got a 100% on your open note ​syllabus quiz...

and then proceeding to treat yourself as a reward...

to then realize that you don't have the money to treat yourself...

but continue to do it anyway.

Trying to motivate yourself to stay in your classes and graduate by saying...

then realizing that after this semester, college is over.

Starting off your thirsty Thursday at 7 pm like...

and then wondering why your friend looks like this by 11 pm.

How you're feeling when you go to bed that night with the spinnies.

Waking up on Friday morning at 10 am like...

and rushing to your class that starts at 10:10.

How you sit in the back of the classroom pretending like you're not hungover...

and your internal rage when your teacher calls you out on it.

Trying to find your future knowing you're graduating in a few months.

Finally realizing that its your very last semester so you have to make it the best one yet.

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Because let's be honest, we all use lyrics.

1. “Don’t get too close, it’s dark inside. It's where my demons hide.”

2. “Tonight, we are young.”

3. “Cuz I may be bad, but I’m perfectly good at it.”

4. “Tell me how they got that pretty little face on that pretty little frame.”

5. “I can’t wait to fall in love with you, you can’t wait to fall in love with me.”

6. “Sweatpants, hair tied, chillin with no makeup on.”

7. “Why you so obsessed with me?”

8. “We ain’t ever getting older.”

9. “I didn’t know that I was starving until I tasted you.”

10. “Didn’t they tell you I’m a savage?"

11. “I’m gonna make you miss me.”

12. "Cheers to the freakin weekend.”

13. “Love’s a game. Wanna play?”

14. “You don’t know about me, but I bet you want to.”

15. “Let’s set each other’s lonely nights, Be each other’s paradise.”

16. “Trippin’ on skies, sippin’ waterfalls."

17. “Wish we could turn back time, to the good old days.”

18. “But you will remember me for centuries.”

19. “Something about you makes me feel like a dangerous woman."

20. “Don’t act like it’s a bad thing to fall in love with me.”

21. “Darling, I’m a nightmare dressed like a daydream.”

22. “Find me where the wild things are.”

23. “I’m high on lovin’ you.”

24. “If you’re gonna be somebody’s heartbreak, somebody’s mistake, if you’re gonna be somebody’s first time, somebody’s last time, be mine.”

25. “Don’t be afraid to take the road less traveled on.”

Everything Bruce says in his classic rock songs.

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2. "It's a town full of losers/ I'm pulling out of here to win" (Thunder Road)

3. "You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above" (Tunnel of Love)

4. "I got something in my heart/ I been waitin' to give/ I got a life I wanna start/ One I been waitin' to live" (Leah)

5. “God have mercy on the man/ Who doubts what he’s sure of” (Brilliant Disguise)

7. “Is a dream a lie when it don’t come true, or is it something worse?” (The River)

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1. "Talk about a dream
Try to make it real
You wake up in the night
With a fear so real
Spend your life waiting
For a moment that just don't come
Well don't waste your time waiting." (Badlands)