Boom baby!

1. People don't realize how broke you actually are

Yeah, spending $100+ on a book when I have $30 to my name and I have to figure out how to get food, water, a roof over my head etc.is going to be a little less than ideal.

2. Forever waiting on Kronk's cooking show spin off

Seriously, I would love to get the recipe for those spinach puffs and bonus points if you can make them in the microwave.

3. Its inevitable to either gain half your body weight or get a strange stomach disease due to your dining options.

Option 1: use your overpriced meal plan to eat food at the dining halls that will leave you spending hours in the bathroom for the next week. Also, it is incredibly embarrassing when your e-mails usually say: "Dear Professor Smith, I would like to apologize for being 30 minutes late to class, I was in the bathroom with diarrhea. Could I please make up the quiz during your office hours?"

... Or

Option 2: Eat cheap ramen or mac and cheese every day for the next week because that's pretty much all you can afford, then watch your food baby grow.

4. Long, boring lectures

Could someone please remind me why I need to take geology when I'm a journalism major? Like I understand that I need to be a "well-rounded" student, but seriously rocks can only be so interesting.

5. When you get a B on an exam that you did not study for at all.

Why would a professor schedule an exam for Tuesday when he/she darn well knows that the bachelor is on Mondays? Sorry not sorry that my priorities are a little different than yours.

6. Finding someone in class that is just as confused as you are.

Don't let the greek life kids fool you: those life long college friends will be found sitting with you in the back of the lecture hall that also has no idea what is going on. Rather than maybe trying to help each other understand what the professor is actually talking about, you will bond over online shopping during class and sharing snacks.

Remember kids: your GPA won't matter in heaven!

7. Extreme FOMO that is felt just about every day

When your best friend makes spring break plans without you or you have to miss your little cousin's birthday party. So many nights were spent half studying and half refreshing snapchat when you told your friend that you could not go with her to Delta Chi's 90s themed party because you had an exam on Monday. Also, major fear of missing out every time your mom sends a picture of your dog back home and you're afraid that he will never look that cute ever again.

8. When "Closer" by The Chainsmokers comes on

YES! I can't afford a Rover or a tattoo on my shoulder (or even a broke down car.. $30 to my name, remember?). Now let me dance on the table because WE AIN'T EVER GETTIN' OLDER.

9. The "different" people you see on campus

Men in kilts, live action roll playing, people randomly chilling in hammocks, interpretive dancing in the middle of campus, tight rope walking across the union, people making out EVERYWHERE, almost getting killed by people on skateboards and bikes, people randomly passed out on the sidewalk, people randomly puking out their entire stomach's content. This is college, a weird and magical place, where you really see it all.

10. Suddenly becoming an expert after taking one semester of a random gen ed.

Three years of high school Spanish and one semester of college Spanish-- yeah, that makes you fluent, feel free to go to Spain when you have more than $30 in your bank account.

11. When you finally face your fears

Congratulations! After hours of venting to your boyfriend over the phone and sounding tough to your best friends in your group chat, you finally politely asked your loud roommate to turn down their music at 11:00 at night.

Now they know that you will not let them walk all over you anymore.. just kidding they will turn the music back to its original volume level in five minutes and it will be even louder tomorrow. Good effort though.

12. Finals week

Four exams in three days, little to no sleep, library is flooded with people who haven't been there at all this semester, and the tutors are all busy with their own exams. It's a perfect storm. The only thing pushing you through "hell week" is the thought of it all being over and a fresh start of the new semester, and how you're never going to save all of your studying for the last minute ever again.

... However will you end up falling into all of the same bad habits by the second week?

Don't worry, this is why your in college-- to learn from your mistakes!

13. Loud roommates/neighbors.

Yes, I understand that this is an oddly awesome time in our life where we are old enough to live on our own and make decisions like go out on a Tuesday night or stay in and study, but we are not old enough where we are responsible for anyone but ourselves and no one expects that much of us right now.

However, some of us are trying to study so we can graduate in the not so distant future and hopefully get a job so we can pay off our student loans without working part time as a stripper or selling our kidney on the black market.

So if you could kindly stop yelling at the top of your lungs and chasing each other around the entire floor like drunk preschoolers so I can finish my homework and not stay up until 5:00 in the morning, then I would really appreciate it.

14. Any time the cops pass you

Yes, I know that the cops are only out to keep everyone safe and to put the "bad guys" away, and odds are I'm not doing anything wrong. BUT, I don't think that if they see me walking around campus on a Friday night with my backpack that they will automatically know that I'm just going to the library.

Same thing goes for when the professor passes you while you're taking an exam and you can only think "don't look like you're cheating, don't look like you're cheating, don't look like you're cheating," when you were never cheating in the first place.

See Mom and Dad, college hasn't totally corrupted me!

15. When your snapchat story is more lit than the person's that you don't like

Yeah, yeah we all know that we aren't supposed to compare ourselves and "our lives aren't better/worse than anyone else's because it is perfect for us and their lives are perfect for them blah blah blah." But can we be real with ourselves for a hot second? It does feel a little good when we keep posting hot selfies with our best friends and cute videos of us dancing in a big group and the only thing that one person you can't stand posted was a picture of grey's anatomy!

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure if they were falling off a cliff I would help them or if I saw them puking in the bathroom and no one else was there I probably would hold their hair back.

But for now, I'm just going to enjoy this little victory.

16. When you find the entire study guide online

QuizLIT

17. It's okay to not be in the mood to party

We all have those nights where we are absolutely ready to turn up, dance to every song, and become everyone's best friend.

However, there are also those nights where, despite your best efforts, all you can think about is taking off your heels, putting on sweatpants, climbing into bed, and watching an episode of Grey's Anatomy with a box of pizza.

It's all about balance, young grasshoppers.

18. When your makeup does not look the same as it did when you left for the bars

After spending hours in front of the mirror with a YouTube tutorial video to replicate Kim K's contour game and trying to follow the whole "Instagram makeup" trend of bold/clean cut eyebrows, big lashes, and overdrawn lips you finally leave feeling like a normal human being who could maybe take a good selfie or two with the right lighting.

That was at 10:00 and now it is 2:00 AM, and after hours of dancing and sweating, your lip liner has blended throughout your face, your eyeliner has started to run down your face, and your hair is a big frizzy mess. Just hope that everyone is too drunk to notice.

19. When you actually wear "real people" clothes to class

Those mornings when you didn't over sleep (for once), ate breakfast, maybe did some yoga, picked out a nice outfit, did your hair and put on some makeup and you feel like you could conquer the world. Every time you do that you wonder why you don't do that every morning, then you stay up until 3 AM watching Netflix and waking up at 7:30 does not sound nearly as appealing as staying in bed an extra hour or two.