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10 Struggles Only Tall Girls Will Understand

Welcome to the 5'8" and above club.

Haley Hamschin

Apr 03, 2017

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10 Struggles Only Tall Girls Will Understand

Haley Hamschin

Like my father, I was blessed with the gift of height. Even when I was a little girl I towered over my friends and by the time I was in fifth grade, I was taller than my mom. As I’ve grown older (and taller), I’ve learned to see the advantages of being tall. It’s great to be able to reach things, be viewed as athletic (even if you’re painfully uncoordinated), see past crowds and never have to shop for heels, but like anything else, being tall does have its challenges.

After hearing yet another joke about my height earlier this week, I decided to make a list of struggles only tall girls understand:

1. Dresses that fit like t-shirts.

Dear Forever 21, you make cute clothes. It would be GREAT if you could come out with a dress that actually covers my butt. Thanks!

2. Finding a guy that is taller than you feels impossible.

Why do I have to grow faster than guys? Why?

3. And if you do find a decent tall guy, he’s taken by a short girl.

Short girls, you have SO many guy options. Tall guys are hard to find! Sharing is caring my friends.

4. When you decide to let it go and go on a date with a shorter guy, you can’t wear heels.

I just want to look cute and not feel like a giant… is that so much to ask?

5. People constantly ask if you play basketball or volleyball.

Just because I’m tall doesn’t mean I’m coordinated… but yes, yes I do play sports. No, I didn't pick basketball just because I'm tall. Stop stereotyping.

6. Questioning if you’ll ever find a pair of jeans that don’t fit like floods.

Bless the person who came up with the concept of “long” jeans and kudos to the CEO of Long Tall Sally… you da real MVP.

7. Your gymnastics dream died in the fourth grade.

If you hit 5’0” before middle school, it’s all over.

8. Towering over your friends.

*insert awkward knee bend here*

9. Two words: LEG. ROOM.

Lecture halls, backseats of cars, airplanes, buses and stadium seats are a living nightmare. Seriously, who came up with the idea to jam people in seats like that? It’s just wrong.

10. Being called beautiful, strong and powerful.

Because at the end of the day, you’re proud of your height and wouldn’t change a thing. Own it!

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10 Struggles Only Tall Girls Will Understand

Welcome to the 5'8" and above club.

1. Dresses that fit like t-shirts.

2. Finding a guy that is taller than you feels impossible.

3. And if you do find a decent tall guy, he’s taken by a short girl.

4. When you decide to let it go and go on a date with a shorter guy, you can’t wear heels.

5. People constantly ask if you play basketball or volleyball.

6. Questioning if you’ll ever find a pair of jeans that don’t fit like floods.

7. Your gymnastics dream died in the fourth grade.

8. Towering over your friends.

9. Two words: LEG. ROOM.

10. Being called beautiful, strong and powerful.

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1. When course schedules are released and you have a conflict between two required classes.

2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

When your capability of "adulting" is put to the test

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"Nobody living in one of the most influential nations in the world should be worried about making ends meet."

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5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

6. ...but then you get the test back and somehow passed.

7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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