Senior year has finally rolled around and you can’t believe how fast the last three years have gone. You are in denial that this is your last year of college and are full of mixed emotions. These are the 12 things every senior experiences during the first semester of their last year of collegiate bliss. 

1. Depression. Seniors are realizing that this is the last year they will be able to enjoy all of the little things that college has to offer. 

2. The realization that this is the last year it will be socially acceptable to be drunk before noon and go to bars in football jerseys and sneakers covered in tailgating mud. 

3. The frequent panic attack that ensues when you realize you have to get a real
grownup job.

4. Feeling like the big man (or woman!) when you strut around campus and look down upon all of the naïve young ones. 

5. Being shocked at how young everyone looks and wondering if you looked like you were 14 when you were a freshman. 

6. Finally not worrying about getting ID-ed at the bars. 

7. Being so over college guys and college bars, and vowing to venture into the nearest city to be more sophisticated. 

8. Immediately following that thought up with a trip to your favorite frat house where you slap the bag all night. 

9. Pure joy and astonishment that you’ve made it this far without being arrested for all of the stupid stuff you have done. 

10. Promising yourself that you will buckle down and concentrate on your schoolwork because this is the last year to raise your GPA. 

11. Using the, “but it’s my last year of college,” excuse to go out the night before a paper is due. 

12. Having the inevitable, extremely emotional conversation with your sorority sisters and fraternity brothers about how much you love them and how they made college the best years of your life.