As someone who only has a month before she moves to college, I can 100 percent confirm that the summer before college is the hardest to sit through. Ever. Everyone prepares you for the rest, buying supplies for your dorm and picking out your classes, but no one prepares you for the unbearable wait you have to endure before you even set foot on campus for the start of the school year. These are 10 things that everyone waiting for college to start understands.

1. Every day seems longer than the last.

Who even decided there needed to be 24 hours in a day?

2. And during those 24 hours, you spend way too much time looking at pictures of your school, browsing your school’s website, imagining yourself walking across campus for that 8:00 a.m. class with a cup of coffee and 6 hours of sleep …

3. You’ve looked at your class schedule repeatedly and unhealthily.

Maybe you’ve even written it out and scheduled out exactly what time you’re going to wake up, shower, eat breakfast (not that I’ve done that) …

4. You eventually run out of things to distract yourself.

I work a part time job, but even at work, I only daydream about the start of school. It gets me through those seven hour shifts.

5. You went way too gung-ho about buying all your dorm supplies.

The sheer amount of stuff cluttered in your room is starting to get overwhelming, and you still have a long way to go until you can move into your dorm.

6. You start to really realize that you’re about to leave home and your family, and you have to repeatedly push those nasty thoughts away.

I mean, this summer is hard enough already without thinking about your mom crying as she leaves you to your new life.

7. You also start to truly understand just how much STUFF you have.

Clothes from 8th grade? Maybe you’ll still need those … ?

8. The panic starts to set in, and you start to realize how different things are going to be.

How are you going to remember when to wash your sheets or when those pain killers expire? How many times can you wear the same pair of jeans in a week? HOW EXPENSIVE IS TOILET PAPER?

9. You start to get restless, which means your parents start to get restless, which means everyone is restless.

You just want to move out and be over with it. Then you start to remember that in about four months you’re going to be taking those infamous semester exams. That sounds worse than anything else.

10. You know that you have to say goodbye to everyone you know, sooner rather than later, even though it’s not forever.

But it sure does feel like it.