Now that spring break has come and gone, the real work of the semester begins. Coming back into my first week of classes, school has hit me like a ton of bricks. Midterms, papers and projects have left me wishing that spring break could last forever. I was not at all prepared for the amount of work that I would come back to. If you're like me and still dreaming of laying on the beach during vacation or at home on your couch (or however you spent your break), then this list is absolutely perfect for you.
1. When you realize that you have to go back to school and actually do work.
There's literally nothing worse than the realization that you won't be able to relax 24/7 anymore. Or that you have to get up at a responsible time in the morning once again.
2. And you are not at all ready to go back to actually being a responsible, hardworking member of society.
Two papers due this week? Two midterms on the same day? NO.
3. The realization that you didn't do any of the schoolwork/studying you should have done over break and now you're drowning in work.
I think we can all relate to the night before the first day after break when you discover that there were 35345 assignments you should have been working on.
4. When the first day back smacks you in the face and you're not thriving at all.
When you become so overwhelmed you just want to wrap yourself in a blanket and hide in bed forever. How do you school?
5. Because you spent all day sitting in class but your brain is still on break.
Sitting in class mentally still on vacation...because imagining your sitting on a beach is much better than listening to a sixty minute lecture. Maybe if I close my eyes I'll magically be back on the beach?
6. But then you see your friends and everything is right in the world.
A week apart feels like a lifetime in college. It might as well be when you are used to seeing your friends 24/7.
7. Until you remember that you're even closer to graduating now.
We don't talk about the "G" word. We ignore that it is even coming.
8. And you see all the freshman back on campus.
I feel older every time I see them walking around campus. "Youths! Youths everywhere!"
9. But you somehow make it to the end of the first week back.
There is no better feeling than knowing you survived the first week back after break. The week that feels like it will never end...finally came to an end.
10. And you finally made it to the weekend.
Time to celebrate! In the wise words of Schmidt, "It's on and poppin' up in here!" Time to let loose!
