If you're a college student by now you know that adulting just comes along with the territory. And if you're a freshman you're probably thinking.."hmm I've heard of the word but I'm not entirely sure what adulting entails." Well my friends welcome to the jungle. Adulting is basically the time in your life when your parents are no longer there to pick you up when you've fallen, or make you eggs when you request them. Its a dark and scary world out here for us these days. Adulting is really just being a fake adult until you go home for the summer and have your mom doing your laundry again, but theres a lot of time until then. So, here is how to recognize you are going through the 10 stages of adulting.

1. Making your bed

When you grow out of the "Why do I have to make my bed if I'm going to get back in it anyways?" stage and start making your bed in the morning, you know that you are officially apart of the adulting world.

2. Cooking

For most of us our idea of "cooking" is pouring a bowl of cereal and really any sort of food you make yourself is considered adulting, even if its dino chicken nuggets.

3. Cleaning

This is a huge step in adulting. If your physically take the time to make something clean you are a full blown adult at this rate. Things only get more difficult from here on out.

4. Laundry

If you could handle cleaning you most likely decided to take the next step which is doing your own laundry. If you made it here congratulations. just remember that darks go with darks and whites go with whites. You can do this.

5. Calling other adults and dealing with adult like problems

Adulting 101 requires you to make phone calls in order to deal with adult like problems that other adults are responsible for. If you need to call another adult get ready to channel your inner mom to get this problem handled.

6. Doctors appointments

a truly scary thought is having to remember all the things you are allergic to and all your family medical history when filling out paperwork at the doctors alone for the first time.

7. Grocery shopping

If you want to go buck wild and get oreos, doritos, and hot pockets do it. you can be whatever kind of adult you want so live out your childhood dreams at the grocery store for the first time.

8. Making reservations

You can't just show up at a restaurant anymore reservations are a thing that totally happened behind the scenes growing up we probably never even knew that our parents did this before we got there.

9. Picking up prescriptions

Your medicine when your sick doesn't just magically appear on your bed side table anymore. you actually have to go get it and deal with other adults. Whip out your insurance card like a boss.

10. Going on interviews

The last and final stage of adulthood comes when you go on a job interview, seriously if you made it here that means you are looking for an actual adult job. Thats a big deal. Welcome to Adulting 400.