1. Your alarm (the first one) goes off in the morning.
Then, the second one, because you knew you would ignore the first, and then you don't really get out of bed until the fourth one.
2. Doing your hair on the first day of school.
3. And then getting halfway through the year and giving up.
4. Leaving for class when you woke up at 7:55 a.m. and your exam is at 8 a.m.
5. When you finish the exam early and all your classmates are still stressing.
6. When someone asks you what the assignments are for homework.
7. When you have a bad day, but still have things to do.
8. That feeling you get about two weeks before final exams.
9. When you come home after a long day that actually felt like a year.
10. Leaving your last final before you go home for break.
11. Going to the library to "study" when all your friends are there.
12. When you find out you have three exams, two quizzes, a speech, and a presentation all due the same week.
13. The moment you open Blackboard to check your grade for an exam that you thought you aced.
14. When you've made it through a couple semesters and you feel like a seasoned pro.
College is hard. It brings out the best and the worst in all of us, but when we make it to the end, hopefully, we will be that much better. And then they lived happily ever after.
