The College Visit, As Told By Parks and Recreation

Whether you're in college now or beginning the search, chances are at one point to another you will experience a college visit, the day where you become swarmed with college propaganda, self consciously meet your admissions competition and realize you really need to get your act together. In between drowning in standardize test preparation and the frequent, inevidable mental breakdowns high school provides, many students try to fit in a few visits to schools high on their radar to give a taste of college life, and whether the environment you're visiting is right for you. Here are the stages of visiting schools as told by Parks and Recreation.

You realize it is way too early for this, and contemplate whether or not waking up at 7am to drive up for a 9:30am tour is worth the college experience.

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Then, once you arrive, you begin to get excited and immediately picture yourself as a college student and walk in positively.

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Then you meet other students like you, and suddenly you feel unworthy of sitting next to one boy who says he is in 12 APs and another who started their own non-profit. [rebelmouse-proxy-image https://media.rbl.ms/image?u=%2Ffiles%2F2017%2F02%2F26%2F636236814026110737-1715575687_giphy.gif&ho=https%3A%2F%2Faz616578.vo.msecnd.net&s=98&h=22a71eb78597e15cd95a8d9b7beef809208de5146bcdb700bbf98f2f7d413c12&size=980x&c=963223350 crop_info="%7B%22image%22%3A%20%22https%3A//media.rbl.ms/image%3Fu%3D%252Ffiles%252F2017%252F02%252F26%252F636236814026110737-1715575687_giphy.gif%26ho%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Faz616578.vo.msecnd.net%26s%3D98%26h%3D22a71eb78597e15cd95a8d9b7beef809208de5146bcdb700bbf98f2f7d413c12%26size%3D980x%26c%3D963223350%22%7D" expand=1]

As the person conducting the informational session begins and throws around numbers, you continue to question if you are capable of any of it.

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And then you hear the tuition...

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After you get up from someone showing a long PowerPoint of smiling students and successful alumni, you begin your tour and you're in awe.

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You pass current students, and feel like you are already apart of the college cult.

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Even though you can tell they're super pissed off you're apart of the parade at their school touring.

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