I would like to say that I'm a little mature for my age, so I hangout with older people. 97% of my friends are or over the age of 21, and me? Well, I'm not. Im merely a whopping 19 years old, woo. Don't get me wrong, I love it, just not when it comes to having out with all of my (older) friends.
1. Your nights tend to end earlier than theirs do
When they want to go out and you can't, so they pat your little head and send you home. It's like when you were little and your mom was sending you off to bed.
2. You have to accept the fact that all of your friends are going to be graduating and leaving you all at the same time
Okay I don't know what I did to deserve being abandoned by everyone at the same time...who am I going to hang out with next year??
3. You're not old enough for the bars
I've celebrated about 9 of my friends' 21st birthdays, always having to go home early at the end of the night because part of the 21st experience is going to the bars, and I still have a couple of years until I can get in.
4. Having to go pick up your drunk friends from the bar where you weren't allowed in
Just when you thought your night was over, you get a phone call about an hour after you parted your friends at the bars saying they need a ride. Now you have to get all of them in the car, home safely, and manage all of that without having someone throw up on the seats.
5. Everyone is getting fancy internships and you're struggling to find an on campus job
I'm a sophomore, and I've been trying to get internships that have something to do with my major, but I'm always getting beat out by juniors and seniors. So I'm stuck trying to get a job making coffee for students riding the same struggle bus as me.
6. Your friends are constantly texting you to have wine night, but you're not old enough to buy it
Hi yeah, I don't know if you remember that I'm only 19, and I can't buy any beverages with alcohol content of any kind, but let me remind you. Ask me for wine night again in a couple years, when I'm of age and you've already graduated.
7. When you want to go to a party, but all your friends have done their time and are over the partying phase
Yeah, you're right. I'll stay at home, and watch Netflix. The party probably isn't that fun anyway.
8. You're still suffering in dorm life while all your friends have apartments
I get it, we all do our time in the tiny little dorms, but it still sucks when every time you go hang out with your friends at their apartments, you have to return to the tiny dorm, that has no privacy what so ever.
9. When your friends hang out with guys and they don't talk to you because they know you're the youngest.
Listen, just because I'm not old enough to drink, and I'm not a senior in college, doesn't mean I'm not mature. If you'd look past the age and talk to me, you might actually like me. Age is just a number, right?...right??
10. When they study abroad and you're left at home to suffer through school without them
YEAH I GET YOU'RE HAVING FUN OVER THERE, AND IT'S BEAUTIFUL AND ALL THAT JAZZ BUT IF YOU COULD COME HOME LIKE YESTERDAY THAT'D BE GREAT CAUSE I'M PRETTY LONELY WITHOUT YOU.
11. They're about to go live the rest of their lives, and you still have three more years of school
I'm already really sad that I met you so late in life, and now you're leaving to go make a difference in people's lives. That's super exciting, but you're leaving me so it also makes it super sad. Try not to forget me, OK?
