We waited, we anticipated, we prepared ourselves for the first week. Classes.
With the first week over, reality is finally sinking in. The routine is setting itself up and you're getting a feel for how this semester is going to go. You were excited for your first week back! You wanted to see your friends, you missed the sight of campus, heck, maybe you were actually excited for your new classes. But then after the first week you've realized, school kinda sucks. It's the second week and you're already behind. Blackboard confused the shit out of you and you already missed an assignment for some online class. Access financial aid seemed like a bomb prize until your teachers told you how many books you need to buy. Yeah, you have access financial aid just to give it back to the university. The system always wins...
You missed those lunch dates with your friends, but it's been five days and you've remembered why you hated that dining hall you always went to THEY HAVE NO FOOD. Everything is like half flavorful and nothing that's supposed to be hot, is. It's all just cold, flavorless food that you wait 20 minutes in line for.
The promise of a new year brings hope for new friends and maybe even a new significant other. But most people don't change and the only friends you make the time to hang out with are the ones you always have. You're just a creature of habit.
You planned to be that organized and motivated student. You wanted to get up early before classes, go to the gym and still be showered and ready on time. But here you are... up the night before classes writing an article at 2 a.m. when you should be sleeping. Ya know, so you can be productive like your lying self said you would be.
Ugh. You forgot what it was like to have these responsibilities. Sure, summer might not have been the lazy, fun and carefree summer you wanted, but even working two jobs and living at home was easier to deal with than the load of homework you now have.
Yeah, a new semester seemed like a good idea. But so did casting a new "Steve" in Blue's Clues and we all know how that turned out...
Just a few more months and you can be back at home, wishing for another new semester.
