Let's be real here--we secretly love being back at school. We may not enjoy the work, or all of our classes, or the food or running on three hours of sleep..wait, why do we secretly love being back again? We mostly love being back because we typically have a little more freedom at school, and we can be involved in our favorite activities again and see all of our amazing friends that we couldn't visit during the summer because they live in Connecticut or California and we just live in Maryland. In all honesty, whether we realize it or not, we all react to being back the same way.

1. Acting nonchalant when our parents drop us off so they won't know how much we miss them already

2. Organizing our rooms on the first day and pretending we have our lives together

3. Avoiding school food at all costs

4. Dreading that 8:15 am class, or the 12:35 pm class, or even the 1:45 pm class - basically just dreading all of our classes

5. Remembering that being away from home means we have more freedom

6. Of course, some of us are excited for the super fun parties that are about to happen this semester

7. While some of us are excited to be back for our favorite clubs with our favorite people

8. It's two days in and we're already running on four hours of sleep

9. Which makes us excited for those late-night Dunkin runs

10. Even though we've already spent half of what was in our bank account and we haven't even been here for two weeks yet

11. But that doesn't matter because we're finally back with our bffs and personal rays of sunshine