Coming back to school for your senior year is a bitter-sweet reality. You want to make the most of the time that you have left, but you also have a lot of responsibilities on your plate. Frog Week comes along that you've been anticipating all summer. You go out the first night and realize drinking really takes a toll on your body now. Then you decide to rally and try to go out the next night. You do your hair and makeup and then sit there and think about all the other things you could do rather than go to a sweaty frat party. So then you decide to stay in and frog week didn't seem like that special of a week. Then, after a long weeks worth of classes, reading 30 pages of some $200 textbook and pretending you went to the gym every day, you feel like you need to unwind.

It's Thursday night and everyone is deciding what bar they want to go to. As all this discussion is happening, you start to think about how good it sounds to eat a whole pint of ice cream while watching Netflix and then going to sleep at 11. Or at 9 p.m. suggesting to go to Target rather than Backcountry. You would rather watch movies with your roommates than go to a sweaty basement party where you'll get beer spilled on you at least twice. It is an internal struggle of wanting to go out and wanting to stay in. Maybe this is what growing up feels like?

I would have never thought that I would be the one to suggest staying in and playing Clue on a Saturday night (and yes, this happens often). But maybe as seniors, we realize that the time we have left here at college is not something we should take for granted. The time we spend with our best friends will mean so much more to us in years to come than going to a party where you only know a handful of people. Going to a bar or party is still fun, don't get me wrong, but I also would rather not be hungover three days out of the week.

Growing up is hard and no one knows how to do it. I still call my mom asking how to cook or do laundry. And I definitely don't know how to do anything associated with my car. And that's OK.

No one said you have to be a perfect adult once you graduate. You're still going to make bad decisions and do stupid things. And that's OK too.

One day we will find a balance that works for us all. As for now, I will happily watch "Harry Potter" movie marathons and eat cookie dough with my best friends on a Friday night. Call me washed up, but I wouldn't have it any other way.