Walking around campus nowadays, it's nearly impossible to not see one or more groups of seniors in white dresses, popping champagne over the quad or blowing glitter into the wind. You see them wearing their cap and gown, fake-candid smiling beneath the sweat of the sun beating down their faces. You see couples kissing between the columns of the buildings you've grown to love over the years, and you can't help but think....

What a load of total bulls**t?

I mean, seriously, guys, let us think about this for a second. When have we ever once in the last four years tossed glitter into the air just for fun, much less on our campus? It's probably kind of likely that you've had a sip of champagne at SOME point, but wasting a perfectly good bottle? That is unheard of around here. Yet, they have become a staple of senior graduation photos and have completely clogged my news feed.

And I'm allowed to make fun of it. Wanna know why? Because I was that girl.

Oh yes, there I am. Blissfully blowing a pile of glitter from my hands in order to seem cool and aloof and totally cliche. Meet me, the stereotypical female college senior, staining our beautiful quad with glitter and leaving my sparkly mark on campus.

Yea, I'm throwing up in my mouth a little, too.

Didn't stop there, though. Here I am, leaping into an iron statue;s arms and kissing him on the cheek against his will! This is totally normal y'all!! (No, it's not.)

And then we have the typical awkward laugh. Literally nothing funny was said in this picture. We're just nervously laughing at each other until a decent picture comes out of it.

We look damn cute, though.

Fifty dollars (plus tip), about an hour of walking around, and a very talented photographer later, I had around 20 flattering photos of myself to show off on Facebook to everyone to say "Hey look! I did the damn thing! I graduated!!"

In the grand scheme of life, these posed pictures aren't hurting anyone. And people are going to continue doing them, always, until the end of time, so there is no point in getting butthurt about it. However, doing my own little photo shoot (with Madeleine Bloxam Photography) got me thinking....

What if our graduation photos accurately depicted what our time in college was like?

So with my little iPhone 6 and a group of some pretty rad friends, I did my own photo shoot that showed exactly what it was the college seniors were REALLY leaving behind.

For starters, the pictures would feature a hell of a lot more food. Pizza, in particular. And especially pizza that is bigger than our face. Which is every college student's favorite kind of pizza.

Unfortunately, however, our diet can not consist of ONLY pizza... which is obviously the reason dining halls were invented. If you eat at the dining halls, and you didn't get about nine plates worth of stuff, did you even really go in the first place?

I'm not just talking about food, either. I go downtown to the bars with my friends at least twenty times more often than I dress up in wedges and prance around the quad. And let's be real, we college kids spend way too much time standing around and waiting for the bartender to serve us.

Even though it's only nice and sunny about a total of three weeks out of the entire year, you can bet your little tan butt that sun's out = buns out. The various apartment pools will swarm with girls, trying to get in a little color while they can. (Myself included, on occasion.) Graduation gowns leave kind of an awkward tan line, though.

This is all during the day... but we all know what college kids get into once the sun goes down. College parties. It always starts with a light game of beer pong...

And then that one chick has to bring out the beer bong, getting the party really started...

But people can only take dancing in a dark, crowded room for so long before everyone just kind of finds themselves sitting around, not socializing, and checking their snap chat stories instead. This, my friends, is what college really looks like.

Then the night wears down, and people start to go home... and all you are left with is your drunk roommate and a toilet. Nothing says "I survived college!" like this does:

But it's not all fun and games. College also brings a lot of responsibility. Like cleaning up AFTER the party.

Or grocery shopping with all the money you make at your part-time job.

Or waiting for the bus to get to class on time.

Or taking out the trash like three times a day.

Or, there is a small chance that you are at the library studying... kind of.

At least you were trying to do homework. Too bad you got stuck in the Starbucks line for like four hours instead.

Maybe you gave up altogether, and decided that the gym was the way to go?

But along the way, the walk involved way much many stairs...

So, you found yourself where pretty much every college kid spends half their day: within the warm, cozy confines of their bed. Welcome to adulthood, where naps are completely and totally acceptable.

Of course, I couldn't capture every single college experience in the span of these pictures. But here are a few more experiences that are pretty typical of a college student, that would make a pretty great grad picture if you ask me:

• Waiting in line for the bathroom at a fraternity party, only to find there is no toilet paper and someone left a little puke on the lid.
• Digging your car out of four feet of snow, already running late for your 8 A.M. class, only to find out that they closed down the campus for a snow day.
• Sitting in class, pretending to listen, while really you are stalking your ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend and her adorable freaking dog
• Awkwardly smushed between ten different couples on a crowded dance floor, most of whom are making out
• Calling an Uber to pick you and your ten friends up and then asking them to hit up the taco bell drive-thru while four of your friends are crowded in the trunk
• Hiding, butt naked, on the quad, because you just streaked it and your friend stole your bathrobe on the other side
• Fighting with your girlfriend in the dairy aisle at the grocery store in front of everyone because she never mentioned that she only liked whole milk before
• Dodging your RA because you are wasted but you desperately need that pack of goldfish in the vending machine in the basement
• Getting catcalled at a day drink because you can't stop singing along to the band but you don't care because someone brought a puppy and that is all you care about
• Arriving in the parking lot and find out there is absolutely no spots, so you spend the next thirty minutes driving in endless loops until you stalk someone back to their car

Then again, I guess you could always just start dancing in fountains and shaking bottles of champagne around campus on the regular. That would also make your grad photos not only gorgeous-- but fairly accurate, too.

Regardless, graduation should be about celebrating the end of the year with smiles and surrounded by friends, no matter what it is that you all do in your spare time. Congrats to everyone who is flipping their tassel in the next couple of weeks. Enjoy every moment of it, Lord knows we deserve it.