It didn't hit me until now. Today is the last day of a "break" in my entire life. Come early May, I will walk onto the stage to receive my diploma (even though I won't actually receive my diploma until a month later) and will forever enter what we seniors call The Real World.

In The Real World, we don't get scheduled breaks like we have throughout our entire lives. No more three months of summer vacation. No more long winter breaks where we can sit around and watch Netflix and veg out on junk food. No more #SpringBreak2k16 (2k17, 2k18, etc.). What we get instead is some vacation time.

A large part of me is sad about this because it marks a new chapter in my life, and I'm always a little scared of change sometimes. I know it's a good change and, ultimately, an inevitable change, but I cannot fathom not having a summer break or winter break or spring break anymore. I'm sure I am not the only senior who feels the same way when they say it is the strangest feeling in the world to think that.

So, if you're a senior just starting your last spring break, enjoy it. If you're like me and your break is coming to a close, try not to think about it too much. What is real, however, is that spring break signifies the beginning of an end. We're down to the wire here, seniors, and we have to make the most of our time. The Real World is out there waiting for us, so why not go out with a bang?

Yeah, we have no more official breaks. It's weird and it really is sad. And yeah, we have less than two months until the big day, but shouldn't that fuel us to want to do whatever it is we haven't done yet in college? Explore the places on campus you haven't yet explored. Go out on a Sunday night because you can. Meet up with your friends from your freshman year that you might have drifted apart from.

Why do all this? Because this is it. Spring break is the last of your free time, so now you have to make free time. I'm not saying put off homework or not to study for a test, but I am saying that you now have no scheduled freedom from life at the same time as your friends have it. All we have left is two months.

We got to make them count, Class of 2016.

It's the final countdown.