College, man, it really gets you left and right. One minute you're acing your classes and the next you're debating dropping them all. One minute you're sober and the next you wake up in a car coming back from a McDonalds run at 3 a.m. But what gets you more than anything is the money. Where on earth does it all go??? You slaved away all summer so you could live a carefree lifestyle, what are price tags? You are invincible. You've got stacks and stacks of dough and you are 100% in control of it all.
Over the course of the school year that dough turns into a burnt, half eaten cheese pizza and reality comes crashing down on you. Your lungs are deflating like popped breast implant on Botched.
You begin to investigate your recent purchases and let's be honest, it revolves around food, online shopping, alcohol, and other shenanigans. All are necessary splurges, but by spring semester/term you are inevitably screwed. I often begin to wonder if I even made money last summer or if it was simply a figment of my imagination, but then my mom calls to let me know I'm an idiot who is spending their life away.
Once accepting the fact that you are broke, you proceed to make empty promises about how you are going to hold back and totally eat on campus more. That lasts about a week and the cycle continues. Don't be that person who mooches off their friends because they are probably just as broke and it only builds tension.
In the end, after four years you will still never learn how to manage your funds. Yes you have $20 left in your bank account and you still have 2 weeks of school and yes you will spend it on late night Dominos for you in the squad because hey, it is college after all.
