It’s that time of year again -- winter session. You know what this means, your newsfeed will be filled with a plethora of your friends in pictures in various parts of the world. Some “touching the tip of the Eiffel Tower,” some eating their weight in pasta, some hiking mountains and volcanoes and some delivering the most precious babies on the complete other side of the world. And all you can think to yourself is congratulations to me, an official part of the study abroad, Newark program. Ha. But seriously, guys, your pictures rock, keep them coming, how else am I supposed to put off studying for economics?
1. Waking up in 20 degree weather in Newark, De., knowing your friends are becoming bronzed goddesses in the countries where it is summer:
2. When you see your friend’s Instagram page is only filled with elaborate pasta dishes from the heart of Italy. You eat, dude?! No way, same!
3. Knowing your friends spend, like, 20 seconds a day learning and the rest just sightseeing and doing whatever they want:
4. What your friend’s Snapchat stories look like when they go out clubbing:
5. When there are only like ten people on campus because everyone is abroad, including all of your friends:
6. When you're scrolling through your Facebook news feed and every other post is abroad pictures:
7. Imagining what it’s going to be like when you are finally reunited with your friends:
8. When you start to get insanely jealous of your friends but then you’re just like:
9. Knowing you are halfway through winter session and your friends are coming home soon, most likely bearing presents:
10. When you just can’t take seeing one more study abroad pic on every single social media platform there ever was: