Last semester you were thrilled to go on winter break and see your old friends again, but as the days went on, you became bored and tired. You felt like you needed to have a purpose again. Finally, it's the beginning of second semester and these are the stages of going back to school.

Stage 1: Excitement.

You start thinking of all the things that make your college experience so great. You get excited to see your friends again and the group chat is blowing up with possible plans for the new semester. You are scared/excited for those new classes because that means new beginnings. And lastly, you're excited to have your freedom back. As much as we love our parents, we want to be allowed to come home at 3am and eat cheesy bread as we please.

Stage 2: Procrastination.

Same old, same old. You get to your college town a weekend before classes. You forget you need to feed yourself and buy your textbooks, so you scramble to find your textbooks through websites, as well as fight to the death to get the last package of bottled water. In addition, instead of buying/selling your textbooks before classes start, you procrastinate that until the first week of classes. Good luck if you have to read before the first class.

Stage 3: The calm before the storm.

You get all of your groceries. You don't have any assignments. You are starting to sell and buy textbooks. You haven't burned the house down yet from your first college-cooked meal. You think you're actually going to be okay this semester.

Stage 4: Going to class and returning back to reality.

Your first day has turned into a disaster. You couldn't find the rooms so you looked like a freshman. The material looks like a foreign language to you. Your professors weren't as easy as they claimed to be on ratemyprofessor and your brain cannot take in all of the assignments on the syllabus. You realize that it is going to be a long, difficult semester.

Stage 5: Remembering it's Syllabus Week.

Kick your shoes off and forget that these classes will become much harder than they are at first because it's time to get syll-ly. This is a college student's attempt to get out all of their stress that is about to become their worst nightmare, following with their library dates until 2am and the 5 cups of coffee, staying up studying for these classes. Oh, and you get to recognize that cute boy in your last semester class while you're out and talk about what a drag this semester will be.

Here's to you college kids. May your procrastination get better and your dining dollars for coffee diminish.