So, you definitely are not a Senior yet. There is no need to get ahead of ourselves. However, people always seem to highlight the difficulty of the last year of college, as you prepare to graduate and head out into the real adult world. No one warned you that there are also many struggles that come with being a Junior. Adulthood is knocking, but you are not quite ready yet to open the door.
1. If you have not yet figured out your major, everyone is making sure it you know you have got to figure that out unless you want to be in college for five more years.
2. You actually feel like a semi-adult now that you get to live off-campus.
3. Though you will admit, you sometimes still miss the freshman dining hall.
4. The dorms were also nice because they were located next to everything and you could sneak into class last minute.
5. It also was so fun living so close to all your friends those early years of college.
6. It is enjoyable to finally be an upperclassman and being able to guide all the children.
7. You have mastered the art of knowing what homework/reading you actually have to do for any professor.
8. You either have an internship or you are currently struggling to find an internship.
9. You are sort of like a half-teenager, half-adult at this point in your life. You are not really sure what you are.
10. Though to be honest, you had more of an idea with what you wanted to do with your life freshman year than now.
11. You also probably had a better social life freshman year.
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12. The problem is either all your friends are 21 and going places you can't or you're 21 and none of your friends are.
13. Once you are 21, house and apartment parties with underclassmen kind of lose their appeal.
14. It is just awkward when you are the baby of the friend group, and they all can order a drink at dinner or go out places you can't for another three months.
15. You are super excited to be a real adult, but at the same time, you still enjoy Disney Channel movies on Netflix and footie pajamas. You still like to act like a kid sometimes.
16. Your classes are a weird mix between the major classes you actually enjoy and the few remaining useless cores you have to complete to graduate.
17. All the freshman in your cores act all judgmental toward you because you are in these majority-freshman classes. Well guys, guess what, they are not exactly easy to complete in two years.
18. You try to pretend to your family at home your life is all fabulous and exciting when you actually are sleeping and studying 90 percent of the time.
19. You are learning about investing in the finer things in life because that is what adults do.
20. The MCAT, LSAT, GRE, and all these grad school tests are the vain of your existence at the moment.
21. You enjoy doing adultish things like talking about politics over a glass of wine. Adulting is way of life.
22. However, no amount of wine nights can make up for the fact you are quickly discovering you have no idea how the adult world works.
23. The adult world is a strange and foreign land.
