It’s Sunday afternoon and Odyssey articles are due on Sundays. Which means that I am sitting in a coffee shop, plugged into a wall, trying my hardest to think about something to write.

I was told that the best way to come up with something to write is to just write about what’s on your mind, but right now all that’s on my mind is the massive amounts of reading I haven’t done yet and how yummy my roommate’s sandwich smells across the table.

Senior year is supposed to be a year of drinking and excitement, which I am not short of by any means, but I feel like I was never made aware of how many balls I would be juggling at once.

Aside from the massive loads of homework about things that I actually love reading about, I’m working thirty hours a week at a minimum waged job trying to even afford my education. Every two weeks my paychecks smile gap toothed at me while I input them directly into my tuition account and keep on reading and working.

Then there are extra-curriculars. As underclassmen, people join as many clubs as they want to and then if they miss a weekly meeting here or there it’s not a big deal – but by senior year, YOU’RE in charge of that club! Which means doing constant upkeep and social networking and community service and needing to go to every single weekly meeting because without you the meeting won’t even happen!

At least you’re twenty-one by this time, and most social events include unwinding with wine, Scandal, and your roommate – who you actually like this year!

Senior year is by no means anything that I had expected. It feels a lot like a dream, like I’m not actually graduating in a few short months, like I’m not actually about to become a real adult. It’s hard to think that so many of these people have degrees and careers and soon I’m about to be one of them? I mean, people my age are off starting families and taking paid vacations dragging their five year old to kindergarten.

And then there’s me… and all I’m doing is sitting in a coffee shop, trying to think of something to write for my weekly Odyssey article…