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10 Things You Realize The Summer After Graduation

The realities of no longer being a college student

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10 Things You Realize The Summer After Graduation
Laurel Abrahamsson

You and your crew have made that big walk across the stage and hopefully graduated with some job offers. Since then you've been enjoying those last few months of sweet freedom before you have to start a nine to five job, paying bills and getting married. Now all your underclassmen friends are starting to post about going back to school. Here are 10 realizations you are bound to have now that summer is officially over.

1. The realization you'll never have to spend $300 on one textbook again.

No more fighting with the campus book store on how a $300 book could have possibly depreciated by 300 percent in 6 months.

2. When you realize you'll never have to eat another disgusting meal made by the mean cafeteria people.

Sure, you made peace with the slop they were passing off as food at the cafeteria. But now that you've graduated, you can rest easy know no one has added laxatives to you food, like you were sure they were doing to the campus' food supply.

3. That you'll never have to wake up for an 8 a.m. lecture again.

So you may have to get a job that requires you to bet up a little early, but you'll never have to sit through another boring, 68 slide PowerPoint presentation that the professor reads directly off of at 8:00 a.m. Ever. Again.

4. When you realize that the eternal torture of mid terms and finals are officially over.

You'll never feel the bone crushing pressure of a midterm that accounts for 50 percent of your overall grade or a final exam that will determine if you'll have to retake the class next semester.

5. When you realize your crazy times with your roommates are a thing of the past.


Those crazy nights of staying up until 2 a.m. dancing frantically around the kitchen table to "Downtown" by Macklemore, are over. You'll never have to sit with them on another bathroom floor while they cry about their love life, or bring them a blanket when they pass out on the kitchen floor.

6. When you realize your beer pong skills aren't as respected in the office as they were at frat parties.

Of course one of the most important skills to learn at college is how to master the game of beer pong, but now your colleagues are more impressed by 401k's and dental plans (Tragic, I know).

7. When it dawns on you that being drunk for an entire weekend is no longer socially acceptable.

One of the most unfortunate realizations, post graduation, is that binge drinking is no longer the norm. By no means is anyone expecting you to go cold turkey, but you are expected to keep it on the low.

8. The moment you realize they way you dressed in college is not considered "business casual".

What do you mean yoga pants and sweatshirts aren't appropriate to wear to work?

9. When you realize those student loan payments are looming over your head about to leave you even more broke (if that's even possible).

Sure, they give you six months to figure it out, but soon the summer heat wears off and then it dawns on you, " I am going to be in debt for the next 25 years. And all I have to show for it is this piece of paper."

10. Finally, when you realize you're really not going back to college and expected to be a full functioning adult that pays bills and has a steady job.

Maybe I can just go back and pick up another major? I've always liked the sound of Criminology.

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