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Why Summer Isn't Summer Anymore For College Students

Wasn't it nice when we didn't have to "adult?"

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Why Summer Isn't Summer Anymore For College Students
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Summer vacation in the elementary and high school days was a time where you actually got a break, from literally everything.

Remember when we used to sit around all day, or plan a beach day with your friends? Or even when you got to go with your family on a week-long vacation?

I remember, barely. Gone are those days.

Summer break no longer holds its vacation meaning to college students. Simply put, summer break equals non-stop working and adulting for us.

The transition between living the college life schedule and 40-hour work week schedule involves completely switching gears. The typical summer lifestyle of a college student usually involves these things:

Your sleep schedule completely flips.

Working from 8-5 and having early wake-ups means no more staying up much past midnight. Midnight during the school year feels like your night was just beginning. Midnight during the summer means you're up way too late.

You're saving money like it's your second job.

Being a broke college student, saving money is one of the essential functions of surviving, sadly. Whether you're saving for rent, tuition, food or all of the above, there isn't a whole lot of spending our hard-earned cash.

Social life? No such thing.

You can count on seeing your closest friends in college close to every day during the school year. During the summer, having a social life is pretty much nonexistent. When you do get free time to spend with friends, you're too exhausted to even use that time. Basically, our closest friends during the summer is Netflix and our beds.

You're looking forward for classes to start up again, all summer long.

Looking forward for school to start back up would have been an insane thought to have in your elementary and high school days. Before college, summer days were savored and you dreaded the countdown of going back.

In college, that countdown couldn't go any faster to classes starting again. For some reason, the stress of studying and schoolwork is better than working all the time.

And if you're living at home for the summer, staying at your parents' house can only be tolerated for so long.

You're overall wishing you didn't have responsibilities.

Summer in college has you wishing you didn't have to get that internship experience, you didn't have bills to pay and you wouldn't have spent that $4 at Taco Bell the other night.

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