Senior year. What a scary year for all college students, am I right? Here are the top ten realities of entering your final year of undergrad.
1. You spend half your days talking about how it seems like the last four years have gone way too fast. You then start to think back to freshmen year and wonder if that was yesterday or truly three years ago.
2. The stress of finding your classes and getting your books ahead of time is a thing of the past. You've got the campus down pat and you know the first week of classes isn't something too lose sleep over.
3. Everything takes on a new meaning because it's the last of all lasts. Last first day of school. Last first tailgate. Last first failed exam of the year, etc.
4. When you walk into a party or bar you know way more people than you thought you would. During freshmen year the campus felt huge and it seemed like you would always be walking into rooms without a single familiar face, but now it's rare to go somewhere and NOT see someone you know.
5. You feel obliged to attend every night out because it's the last time that being so dumb is socially acceptable.
6. You feel way too young to be this old. In high school, or even at the beginning of college, the seniors seemed so grown up and ready for the world. Now it's your turn to look for jobs and be leaders and it makes absolutely no sense. Mentally you don't feel all that different than you did senior year of high school.
7. Worrying about what other people are wearing to class, parties and other get together is no longer a concern. You wear what you like and that's that.
8. You've ended up with all sorts of things in your room that aren't yours. Left behind mittens and hats from winter days in the dorm, water bottles from graduated friends and odds and ends of Halloween costumes.
9. Your class schedule isn't math, science and history anymore, but instead bowling, world of turf and wine tasting.
10. You realize your friends are the grandest people in town and you get too sentimental about the fact that you ever lived without them.
Cheers to senior year!