College is supposed to be the best 4 to 8 years of your
life right? From kindergarten onward adults ask you where you’re going to go to
college. Maybe your parents even dressed you up in their alma mater’s logos hoping that one day you would go to that same college. Then fast-forward you’re
a senior in high school and it’s decision time!
It seems like you’ve been
waiting your whole life for this moment.
Then BOOM!
You decide, you go, you
have the time of your life, you graduate and
BAM… Adulthood!
So in my first year away from
college I have concocted the 5 signs of college-life withdrawal.
YOUR WELCOME!
1. You cry frequently
You just
can’t seem to keep it together. You find yourself crying multiple times a day
for varies reasons. But all the reasons seem to stem from “missing something”. You
might start a lot of your sentences off with, “This time last year I was…” You
miss your friends, hanging out on campus, having less responsibility and man
those student discounts! There will even come a time where you cry in the pure realization that you have just said goodbye to your life as a college student! If that doesn't make you want to listen to Taylor Swift by yourself alone in the dark... I don't know what does!
2. You feel lonely
In your new
job you wake up, go to work, come home, sleep and repeat. Your sense of
communal living is long gone. The late night steak-n-shake runs are no more.
Instead of classmates you have coworkers and your kind of heartbroken over it. Even
if you have roommates after college it’s not the same. I mean it’s not like
your going to see them swaying in their eno on campus. If you’re an extrovert
like me, you miss being surrounded by people all the time.
In college
everything was group oriented (for the most part) so the fact that you’re going
to work by yourself makes your soul hurt.
3. You feel lonely
in the sense that your broke
I live in
New York City where people have some of the highest paying jobs. So if you go
to a get together or find yourself networking with prestigious people you feel
all the more inferior. Not only in your experience, but your paycheck as well.
You hear people mention their job title, a house in the Hamptons and their new purchase of a stupid Birkin bag. While in the meantime all you can think about is that last can of beans
in your pantry that has to last you until you get your paycheck at the end of
the week! If you get invited to go eat out you order a glass of water because
that’s all you can afford.
But in college your friends understood the struggle,
because in college everyone’s in debt together,
eating on a budget together and
being as cheap as possible together.
4. You post way too
many #tbt
You find
yourself scrolling through your college pictures and reminiscing (Which then
proceeds with more crying). You tend to relive the happiness and excitement from
all those silly and hard to explain pictures. So you decide to share the
happiness by posting all of them online on a Thursday. Or if your anything like me you
don’t even wait till a Thursday, you make up an excuse for posting it!
5. You start to miss
the things you once complained about
That
part-time job, that one professor that you despised, the dining hall food; for
the record I never complained about my school’s food (my stomach is easy to
please), but many people I knew did. When you look back at your college career
all these things that you whined about don’t seem that bad anymore.
In an odd
way, you actually miss these things.
The fact of
the matter is we’re going through a huge change in our lives. We are
transitioning from being students (which we have been for the majority of our
lives) into actual adults.
Living,
breathing and functioning adults.
So give
yourself time to adjust and don’t forget that you’re not the only one crying
daily over your graduation pictures!
