Just like that, winter break has ended. It was a short month spent bonding with family, texting and Snapchatting friends, eating everything in sight and watching all of the good shows that Netflix has to offer. We are back at school, and reality has finally set in: this is our last semester. The end is near, and we don’t know whether or not we want to laugh or cry. Here are some other signs that you’ve entered your final semester in college.

1. You can't stop thinking about life after graduation.

Suddenly, that’s not some far-off destination. It’s a handful of months away, and everyone expects you to know what your plan is the second after you step off that stage. You have to start planning now for that internship, that job, that trip abroad that you never got the chance to take during your undergraduate years. All that planning starts to take over any sort of free time that you may have.

2. You're caught between wanting to do nothing and participating in everything.

When classes are done for the night, you crave nothing more

than laying under the covers, watching your latest Netflix addiction, and maybe having a snack. It’s the life of any college student all across the nation. However, once you’re a second-semester senior, you feel like you should be doing something more. If your friends are spending a Thursday night out on the town or going to the coffee shop between class, you feel like it’s something you should join in on. You won’t be living with your friends forever, and you want to take advantage of it now while you still have the chance.

3. You can't watch Pitch Perfect 2 without wanting to cry.

You relate just a little too well to the graduating Bellas,

some of who would do anything in her power not to graduate so that she doesn’t

have to say goodbye to her best friends. There’s a huge part of you that

absolutely dreads that moment when you’ll have to say goodbye, and you know

that those conversations will not be easy. Seeing it play out on screen is

almost too much to handle.

4. You hate your class schedule.

Okay, not your actual schedule, because the class times are

a vast improvement over those dreaded 8 a.ms from your first couple of years.

And no one is ever completely satisfied with the classes they need to take. But

as a second-semester senior, you have the worst classes of them all. By “worst”,

I mean that all that’s left for us to take are the upper-level requirements for

our degrees. On top of that, we’ve finally had to sign up for thesis. The class

that we’ve heard professors talking about since Day One and have been dreading

and fearing for years. Thesis is our new reality, and there’s not a single

person who feels even the slightest bit prepared for it. At least we’re all in

the same boat as we try to pass the hardest classes of our college careers.

5. Everything that used to annoy you about your school now seems endearing.

You’ve spent the past three and a half years complaining

about the less desirable aspects of your university. The dining hall doesn’t

stay open late enough. The food offered to students makes everyone sick. There’s

never any good parking spaces available. But now that your time as a student

here is almost up, everything doesn’t seem so bad. You’re able to see

everything in a brand-new light. Sure, it might take more than five minutes to

walk from your dorm to the cafeteria with your friends, but you know that a

year from now, you’ll be retelling the stories of those adventures to anyone

who will listen.

6. You don't own textbooks.

And if you do actually have textbooks this semester, it’s because

your professor demanded that you spend your hard-earned money on them or risk

failing the class. At this point in your college career, you know when it’s necessary

to have textbooks and when you can get away without spending hundreds of

dollars on a paperweight. If you’re really lucky, you’ve also figured out how

to secure a free copy of them somehow.

7. You're slowly upgrading your wardrobe to include more "business casual" items.

With the realization that you’re about to enter the world of

office jobs and business meetings comes the realization that the majority of

your wardrobe will get you fired in about five seconds flat. Five-inch heels

and a short skirt might be perfect for flirting with someone at the bar, but

not at a job interview. Whenever you’re at the mall now, you make it a point to

find things that will make you look more professional.

8. You're finally taking advantage of resources offered on campus.

Ever since your freshman orientation week, you’ve heard

these rumors about workshops to help you perfect your resume, classes on how to write a cover letter, and this office that helps you find internships and jobs. Now that it’s almost time for you to leave your college bubble, you know that these aren’t rumors, but are in fact a reality. These last few months will be spent making all sorts of appointments with these various resources to help you find some place to start out your career at the end of May.

9. You finally invest in a really good planner.

Now, some people are those super-organized types that carry

a planner around with them like it’s the Bible. They are the smart people who figured out early that you’re much more likely to accomplish everything and never forget about anything important if it’s all written down somewhere. But for some of us, it hasn’t always been a necessity. You’re realizing now that investing in a good planner will not only help you earn a great G.P.A. during your last semester, but that it’ll make transitioning into the workplace that much easier.

10. You're unintentionally clique-y.

By this point, you’ve found your people. Some of them have

been by your side since your very first semester on campus, and some of them have just entered your life last semester. No matter the length of time they’ve been in your life, they’re all really important to you. You want to spend as much time with them as you possibly can before you’re all living all over the world, accomplishing your dreams. For the first time since starting college, you aren’t in the mood to be meeting new people. You prefer spending time with the people who are already in your life. The only new people you might feel like inviting into your life are potential love interests.

11. You do not care.

Not in the bad way. In the “this is my last semester as a

college student, and I really want to live it up and have no regrets” way. You’ll

say “yes” to people and experiences that might have given you pause in the

previous years. You’ll do what you want, even if it’s something that you’ve never

done before. Especially if it’s

something completely new to you. You’ll act first and ask questions later, and

not pay attention to what may or may not be said about you when you leave the

room. Because it’s your last semester as an undergraduate, and you want to take

advantage of every second. It’s the last time to really be reckless, because

once we cross that stage, people will start expecting us to be responsible. And

we’ll have to live up to that. For now, though, it’s time to live with no

regrets.

Who's ready for a semester that they'll never forget?