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Junior Year As Told By New Girl

Graduation: so close, but so far away.

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Junior Year As Told By New Girl

College is crazy, but junior year is one for the books. You have two years under your belt, but you still feel unprepared for life. It has ups and downs and twists and turns, just like any year. But there's something different about your junior year. Here is your junior year of college as told by New Girl.

Your days are as long as an adult with a career, just way off in time frame.

Your days are probably longer than any working adult’s. The only difference is yours don’t start until noon at the earliest, and then end closer to three or four in the morning.


Suddenly high school seems like a long time ago.

Yeah you only graduated probably two, almost three years ago. But after being in college for so long, suddenly high schoolers seem like they are children. In reality, you are still pretty close to them in age.

You are starting to better understand alcohol.

You don’t really have a “go to” drink at the bar yet, because if you are 21 you probably haven’t been for long. You know what certain drinks do to you, and you know that beer hasn’t really ever been your favorite alcoholic beverage choice.

You have so many emotions…because college.

So much is going on in your life and you don’t know how to handle it. College is one big stress ball, and junior year is just the still the start of your stress. Emotions hit you frequently and most of the time you aren’t in the right state to properly handle them.


You are on the verge of adulthood.

You are being faced with situations that are obviously pointing you in the direction of adulthood. You have to schedule your own doctor’s appointments and file your taxes. But thankfully, you’re still young enough to be confused and just ask your parents.

You are still broke, more now than ever.

You can already feel your student loans creeping up behind you. Money is becoming more and more precious to you and your savings account. You look back on those precious times in high school and wonder what you did with all your money, instead of saving it…like you should have.

People you know are starting to get engaged and married.

You begin to question your love life, or your nonexistent one for that matter. People all around you are getting hitched and you don’t even know what you’re having for dinner.

You eat terrible food all the time.

You eat crap all the time. If you still eat on campus, you eat food that is terrible for you. And if you don’t eat on campus you eat food that is terrible for you because your cooking abilities are subpar, if anything. You practically burst into tears around holidays. When you finally get a home cooked meal you feel like you might die from joy.

You start to find your true friends.

You made so many new friends your freshman year. But by the time you’re a junior, you find the people you could actually spend every waking minute with. The people you can be your true weird self with.

Overall, your junior year of college is both amazing and chaotic. But you would rather put up with this mess than the one in the real world.

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