I realized this morning as I got ready for my last first day of school just how fast the last three years have gone by. As I reminisced on all of the good times I’ve had, I realized that in just a few short months I am going to be a real adult… but it’s fine. I’m fine.
Here are some thoughts that every senior in college is going to have at some point before graduation:
1. I don’t want to grow up
Probably the most common thought of any senior. What do you mean I have to work a 40-hour workweek every single week with no days off? That sounds barbaric and I am not prepared to “adult” quite yet.
2. What am I going to do without my best friends and roommates?
For the past three years these glorious humans have been by my side for everything. They have seen me laugh, cry and suffer numerous mental breakdowns so how in the world am I going to survive without them being just a few feet away from me?
3. What am I going to do with my life?
So what exactly am I going to use this degree for anyway and how do they expect me to land a job that requires years of experience when I just now learned how to call and make my own dentist appointments?
4. Can I just pretend graduation isn’t happening?
If I don’t acknowledge graduation does that mean that it won’t actually happen? I would much rather just lay here and watch Netflix all day.
5. I have to actually cook?
How long is it “acceptable” to eat frozen dinners and entire tubs of cookie dough after I graduate? Is the food pyramid still a thing?
6. How do I dress as an adult?
So Nike shorts and oversized t-shirts are not socially acceptable in the adult world? How am I supposed to look classy every morning by 8 a.m.?
7. What actually goes on a resume?
How do other people my age have so much to put on their resume and I have a total of like two things that is even noteworthy…maybe?
8. How am I going to pay off my student loans?
The closer and closer it gets to graduation the more pressing the idea of paying off my student loans becomes. How am I supposed to pay all of these off?! Can they extend the deadline for another few years or like forever?
9. Can I just go back in time?
There are so many things that I wanted to do. How in the world has three years come and gone?! I feel like I just moved into my freshman dorm room like yesterday.
10. I love college!
These last four years have been the best years of my life and I can’t believe that it’s almost over.
