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13 Thoughts While Beginning Senior Year Of College

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13 Thoughts While Beginning Senior Year Of College

Well, well, well Class of 2017, it looks like we finally made it to top dog status. We are no longer the freshmen with lanyards and I.D. cards dangling around our necks playing ice breaker games at orientation - we have upgraded to VIP status. Welcome to life, where nobody knows what they're doing - not even the adults!

As this fall semester begins, I find myself reflecting on the past four years of my college career and thinking about my future plans after graduation. While this is all exciting and wonderful, it's overwhelming as well. With all of these jumbled thoughts running through my meme-oriented brain, these are some of the things that I am currently pondering as I am beginning my senior year of college:

1. Walking into class on the first day like you own the place.

2. Walking around campus and realizing you know absolutely no one in the grades below you.

3. When the professor assigns four papers, three exams and an outline of your capstone thesis all on the first day while you're still in summer mode.

4. When someone asks you what your plans are after graduation like you actually have a clue.

"Are you planning on getting a job?" "Have you taken the GRE?" "What are your plan for graduate school?" "When are you moving out?"

5. Three days into the semester and you already begin skipping class.

6. Thinking about all of those students loans you'll have to start paying back when you don't even have a real job yet.

7. When you realize you are now an adult and have to start doing real adult things like taxes and not eating chicken nuggets every night.

8. When you've been in classes, interning and doing homework for hours and you realize you forgot to eat lunch.


9. When coffee just isn't doing its job anymore.

10. Spending every waking minute with your college homies, because soon, you'll be going your separate ways.

11. Going to a party and wondering how and why all of the freshmen snuck their way in when you couldn't even sneak past an RA without being caught.

12. After pulling an all-nighter and someone tries to say hello to you the next day.

13. But it's senior year...so everything is going to be alright. Right?



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