Dedicated to my wonderful, spontaneous, crazy friends in the drama department

1. The theater space is your home.

Whether you like it or not, the other actors become your new siblings and tech crew becomes the control freak aunts and uncles and best of all, your stage manager is your mama, whether pleasant or bossy or both.

2. You are really good at memorizing a lot of lines in a small amount of time.

This is a very handy skill for tests.

3. People will stereotype you.

Once you play the evil villain, you will always play the evil villain. And then once you break out of that and play the good guy, people will automatically start playing the good guy always. It’s a vicious cycle.

4. You’re really good at making friends quickly.

You literally become another person onstage, so when you do it enough, you understand how people work really well. So you know how to connect with people easily.

5. All the inside jokes!

Some are so obscure, other people think you’re being serious and can get very confused. It’s quite dangerous, actually.

6. You get really weird and you meet really weird people.

You can even get closer with these people than they are with their actual siblings. Naturally, weirdness ensues.

7. No one understands you quite the way your other drama friends do.

Going from the last one, these people see you in your weird moments, but they also see you in your most desperate, happiest and depressing moments. Acting is an emotional roller coaster. Only other actors can understand what you’re going through.

8. You work just as hard and maybe even harder than any other major at your school/in any other career.

You hear it all the time from other friends that your major isn’t very difficult. People don’t take you seriously. But you don’t care, because you know you work hard and you get the last laugh because when they come to your show, they will be the ones applauding you at the end.

9. Opening Night is the most stressful event in the world.

You know this show will never be ready, but no show is ever ready for opening night. So get ready for a big ball of craziness and hoping-you-don’t-mess-up moments because you’ve been preparing for this for a long time. But for all the stress, you know

10. The next weekend is blissful until strike, when you say goodbye to everyone you know and tear down everything you built.

Needless to say, it's the most heart-rending thing in the world. No breakup compares to this one.

11. You wouldn’t trade this in for all the world.

Knowing all the lives you have transformed from your performance and knowing the way you have transformed from this role, you wouldn’t take it back. Ever. Because this is the best career in the world!Share this with your drama friends; they’ll know what I’m talking about. Or maybe share this with your non-drama friends so they can see why you do what you do.

Share this with your drama friends; they’ll know what I’m talking about. Or maybe share this with your non-drama friends so they can see why you do what you do!