In the months leading up to summer, you can't help but anticipate all the beach trips you'll be partaking in or the bottomless fruity drinks you'd love to be sipping on. It's your first summer after freshmen year of college, and you're ready to have the time of your life. Your three months of freedom from professors, exams, and dorm living can't come soon enough.
But then they do.
Instead of going on road trips with your best friends like you used to, you find yourself working a full-time job, leaving little to no time to even see your friends, let alone plan a time you all have off. You instantly miss the days where you didn't have a care in the world, and every day of summer was spent with your best friends by your side.
The days of spending $5 on a Starbucks coffee are now replaced with hesitation, as you now have financial priorities that are way larger than a venti caramel macchiato to worry about. "Adulting" is harder than you thought it would be, and you'll find that out when you pay off your first credit card bill, or have to start paying for your own car insurance. You must learn to be responsible, which sometimes means missing out on having fun.
After awhile of being at home and working away your summer, you can't wait for the day to come where you're able to move back to your college town and be reunited with your best friends. Three exams in one week will suddenly become better than waking up at 8:00 am to work a full-time job everyday. The food in the dining hall won't be as bad, because you have your best friends to suffer with you. The weekends will bring you a newfound sense of appreciation, because you might actually be lucky enough to have off of work.
You vow to enjoy these days, and not take them for granted, because you only have a limited time until these "adult summers" become your everyday reality.