Sophomore year is probably the most awkward year of college, in my opinion. You're no longer a freshman so the novelty of college has sort of worn off, but you're also not an upperclassman so you can't act like a big shot just yet. This is the year you officially need to decide where you want to go in life, but you don't feel the pressure of the real world looming like juniors and seniors, so you really lack any motivation at all. The "sophomore slump" is the phenomenon many students use to describe the strange feelings us second-year college students have about our lives at this time. We may know exactly which frats to go to every night and not have to worry about post-grad plans just yet, but you can bet we have our problems.
1. You finally understand your college nightlife, but no longer want to go out every chance you get
Even though you know the best frats to go to and the bars you can easily get into, you feel slightly like a grandma because your motivation to party has really fallen since freshman year.
2. When you do go out you lack all self-control
Working up the energy to go out may be a feat, but once you're there the stress really takes over. Give me those shots and frat juice and I'll worry about everything else tomorrow.
3. This lack of self-control extends to your classes too
Homework assignments and tests keep piling up and managing it all is just not working out. Have we tried? Not really. But the effort we know it'll take is just too much to fathom.
4. You now are completely comfortable with writing a paper two hours before it's due and don't hate yourself for it
The amount of times I've done this in the past month is really awful, but honestly, I'm impressed that this is a skill I now have.
5. You constantly question whether you should declare this major in the spring
I've already taken so many classes for this major and I don't like anything else but I don't like this either so WHAT DO I DO?
6. You contemplate dropping out of college every time you get an assignment
Three pages on readings you know I haven't done? And a ten-page paper? Finals too? It's all too much, no thank you, I'm out.
7. But the thought of being halfway done with college freaks you out
As much as I hate doing work, the real world comes with responsibilities too and I love my friends and just please don't make me leave so soon!!
8. The stress of needing an internship is constantly on your mind
Why is everyone I know being so professional and I'm working at a summer camp? I mean I'm not leaving but I know I should and that's sad.
9. Crying when you realize your older friends are going to leave you and it's not okay
Please don't graduate. Ever.
10. You honestly don't know how finishing your degree is possible...
...like actually how do people do it? I truly don't understand it just seems so impossible.
11. But, you take comfort in the fact that you don't have to face the real world for another two years
The "sophomore slump" is very real and painful, but college is seriously wonderful. It makes me so sad to think of leaving, and even though it presents its challenges, so does the life after graduating. I'm not ready to leave, as much as I may think I am (I've literally been watching "Fixer Upper" for the past 12 hours straight trying to convince myself to drop out of school, move to Texas and renovate a house). We will get through it, one mini-meltdown at a time.
