1. You get really excited because you have your life together. 

   You have your new planner with everything scheduled out and ready to go. You are NOT going to turn anything in late or get involved in too many organizations. STRAIGHT A's THIS YEAR!
2. You get obviously involved in too many organizations.
   Everything just looks so appealing and at the time, that one organization doesn't seem like it will take up too much time, until you realize you said that about the first ten.
3. You think you've picked the perfect schedule.

   Wow doesn't that thing look NICE!? Pretty as a picture until the third week and you're thinking, " holy crap, why the heck did I decide to take all of those classes on the same day and take this many hours!?"
4. You claimed you'd get more sleep this year.
   
It's now day four of school and the professors have decided you don't need sleep and it's time to make your life miserable and assign hours of homework. Even if you didn't have homework keeping you up until the wee hours of the morning. . .YOU AREN'T GOING TO SLEEP!!
5. You say you're going to study in the library that way you're forced to leave when it closes (and can get that sleep the professors are depriving you of). 
Closing time rolls around and you realize all that you've done an absolutely AMAZING job!!!!......at procrastinating. Time for Milliken.
6. You've been up all night studying in Milliken, so you naturally reward yourself with Cookout.

   Okay, studying burns calories so it's totally acceptable to binge and get everything in sight, right!? HA, I wish. But hey, it makes procrastination studying easier!
7. You will know all of the professors (who are causing your slow academic death) very well and visit their office often, sometimes in tears.
   We have all gotten to that breaking point at least once. If you haven't cried, you've at least held back tears while in their office OR you just haven't gotten there yet. No worries if it hasn't happened yet, because it definitely will.
8. When you see people you don't even somewhat recognize walking around campus or in a classroom, it feels extremely weird.
   At the beginning of the year, there are many of these unfamiliar faces, but towards the end of the year, when you don't know someone or haven't at LEAST seen their face in passing, it seems as though you are on some foreign planet. Wofford is small and it seems as though you glance at almost everyone's beautiful face at least once, unless for some reason you live your Wofford life under a rock.
9. You sign up for a class in hopes of it being an easy A.
   Congratulations, you listened to your friend and shouldn't have!! You picked the absolute worst time to take this class. Word got around to the professor that their class was easy and it's now the hardest class you've ever taken. Some remain easier A classes, but other times....crap.
10. You have had a class (probably many classes) with your ex friend/lover/hookup.
    Is there anything worse than this!? I don't know, I don't think so (maybe Burwell). Either it allows you to prepare yourself months ahead of time for the class with them, or it allows you to get TF out of there as fast as you can.

I'm sure there are many more you could add to this list. Being a Wofford student is one of a kind. It's not only an extremely difficult school, with lots of hard work required, but also a school I am proud to be a part of. A school that is conveniently located near a Cookout so the mental breakdowns aren't as horrifying, and one with challenging classes that help you reach your lowest highest potential. As awkward and hard as classes may be, it's all worth it in the end....hopefully.

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