When you're in a sophomore in college, it's easy to be in this kind of "slump." You feel like you're at a point where you should know what you're doing because technically, you're not the new kid in school anymore and you're less than a year away from not being a teenager anymore. For me, as I sit and freak out in this sophomore slump, I can't help to reflect on what things I've done wrong in my 19 years of living, and struggle to remind myself that I am not alone in making them.

1. Giving up on something because you were lazy or didn't like it back then, but then realized later that this was something you could have been great at.

Like gymnastics? or soccer? or dance? yep all me. Even though I didn't like these activities, I'm very well aware that I was a stubborn kid not giving them a chance.

2. Letting go of the "joke" that you feel like is putting you down.

Because a joke is a joke right? No big deal, they don't mean it, right? You're supposed to laugh, right?

3. Putting someone else's feelings before your own.

Sometimes you want to put others before yourself because you're that good of a friend. One favor turns into five and her vent sessions go from one to ten. However, does she ever do anything for you or talk about you? Ever?

4. Not letting go of something that you need to release.

Whether it's holding a grudge at a former best friend or insisting to everyone that you're right about something and they're wrong, you've let your ability to forgive and forget slip away when you needed it most.

5. Leaving assignments to the last possible minute.

Even though the odds are usually to be in your favor when you get a good grade on the ten-page assignment you did in one night, you feel like hell through the process.

6. Telling everyone you're doing fine when you're really not.

It's easy to hide your feelings, and sometimes you truly do want to be alone. But other times, you don't want to burden other people with your problems so you force yourself to keep quiet.

7. Excluding someone you don't like but who really needed to be included.

It can be nice to feel like you've "won an argument" and are more like by other people than the person you don't like. However, you never really know what that person is going through and that act of exclusion can ruin their whole day.

8. Doing something you weren't supposed to do.

From playing with a toy that wasn't yours, crossing the street by yourself, cheating on a science test, and going out on a night when you know you should be doing homework, you can make a whole list of everything you've should not have done but did.

9. Being mad at yourself for not knowing what you want as a career yet.

Even when you're little, all you ever think about is what you want to be when you grow up. Now that you're grown up, you genuinely don't know who you really want to be so you penalize yourself for it.

10. Not taking risks that you could have taken.

Whether it be simply taking the time you had to learn how to drive or taking that chance of going cliff diving with your friends, you've felt like so many times you've just played it safe and that you were too late.

11. Trusting someone before you knew what they are capable of.

When you meet someone, they start off with one really good chance and if they take the chance to good advantage, you end up truly trusting them. Yet moments later, you can end up regretting doing so far too easily.

12. Ignoring the people who have your best interests at heart, your parents.

It's easy to disregard the comments that you're mom is saying because you feel like she's just being over protective. However, when she ends up being right, it bites you in the ass.

13. Revealing a secret that you shouldn't have.

14. Sugarcoating the truth of something you did so it doesn't look so bad.

You tell yourself that you aren't lying by only talking about parts of the trouble you got involved with, but in the end, bending the truth isn't all that better.

15. Deciding not to wear sunscreen because you "wanna tan."

In the end, you think sunscreen won't do all that much, but then you realize the sun is a lot more painful than you think. And if your skin is anything like mine, that tan just turns into peeling skin.

16. Give yourself a hard time about your weight when you don't need to.

It's easy to make yourself feel bad for eating those extra calories during your late-night snack and even start to drive yourself crazy about your weight for who knows how long.

17. Caring more about what others think about you than what you think of yourself.

Throughout most of your life, your reputation means something to you. And of course, you're guilty of changing yourself because of what others have told you. But in the end, you need to not care what people think, and even after 19 years, I'm still figuring out how to do that myself.

18. Relying on others to believe in you more than you believe in yourself.

Sure, it's great to have a bunch of supporters and friend to lean on throughout so much. However, friends can't hold your hand through everything and you've come to realize that you need to be your own best friend, which is something I know I struggle with.

19. Reflecting upon a list of your mistakes and then getting upset about them.

Every mistake you make is a learning experience, some of which might be the most embarrassing ones of your life. It's easy to list them all and then get mad at yourself for it, which I know I just did. I know that I'm always going to be angered by my mistakes, there's no changing that, but maybe one day, I will have completely and utterly accepted them.