Here it is. The official one month point. One month until I am a graduated college student with a whole lot of dreams and a whole lot of student loans.

I didn’t think it would happen this bad. I thought it would be something that progressed slowly as the month went by, but no. The disease hit me like a pound of bricks and I don’t think I’m going to recover anytime soon.

So I thought I would give everyone a warning about what I have been suffering through.

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

Are you a college student? Is your age range between 20-24? Are you in the spring semester of your last year of college?Has academics turned into social outings? If so, please read the following symptoms.

SYMPTOMS OF SENIORITIS

1. All of your responsibilities seem to not matter anymore and your motivation has been thrown off the top story of the empire state building. You’ve been hitting the snooze button every morning once, twice, every 5 minutes over the course of two hours because you have zero energy to go to class.
2. You keep having moments of complete awe realizing everything the person you are and what you have accomplished. You once dreamed of being the one to go to this school and live this life and get a degree and make new friends and you did it all. Everything you’ve done, all the experiences you’ve had, and all the people you met these past four years seems unbelievable. You’ve gotten so far.
3. You find yourself going out every single night of the week. Your reasoning is you're trying to live up the last month of college. You don’t want to miss out on anything, and you're trying to drink away the fact that you're about to join “the real world.” It’s a more valuable use of your time doing questionable and insane things with your friends than studying.
4. You have a mental breakdown about “life” every week or so. Struggling through job searches, avoiding reality, needing to buy more business clothes, realizing no more frat parties, what does it all mean? *cue breakdown*
5. You’ve been abnormally cherishing every second with your friends because you don’t know what will happen after you graduate. You’ll just suddenly stop what you’re doing, look around at all your friends and notice how happy you all are. You just smile and think how thankful you are. Gosh I love my friends. Gosh, they’re amazing. #blessed
6. You are starting to feel uneasy about adulthood. You have this weird feeling it doesn’t just mean you are old enough to hit up the bars.
7. You have been constantly dreaming about the next time you’ll be able to sleep in for a full day… It’s become an unhealthy obsession with the idea of sleep. “Only 30 days left until graduation and a year long nap. I love bed.”
8. You have are nauseated by the question “what are you doing after college?” *Oh well yes I plan to pursue a competitive career of Netflixing on my parents couch for a couple of months.*
9. Your priorities have disparately changed 100% from what they were last semester. The finish line is in sight now, absolutely nothing matters but living out the last month. Little things just don’t matter... Fuck it I’m bringing my dog to formal.
10. You’ve given up on dressing for class because you're too hungover to function and don’t even care anymore what the hot guy in your research class thinks. Sorry, but even your not worth changing out of leggings.
11. You keep trying to go to one last frat party and relive freshman year all over again, but then the moment you are there you vouch to never come again. The 18-year-olds falling over after one shot of vitali are making you look like a grandma.
12. You keep saying “this is the last time…” for basically every endeavor. You look around when you’re on campus, at an event, or just at the bars with your friends, feeling amazingly appreciative while also broken-hearted that it may never be exactly this way ever again.
13. You pass by certain buildings or areas on campus has turned into a simultaneous journey of flashbacks and appreciation for how much you’ve grown up during these past four years. You start reminiscing about the dining hall and the dorms, all the places you hung out freshman year, and think how much has changed since then - and how happy you are for everything you’ve been through.
14. You keep thinking what is life after “the best four years of my life” ends? Please, tell me it’s not that bad.
15. You know that one class you need to graduate is the bane of your existence. Even just one discussion board post a week is cramping your style. One class a week seems like too much, so you keep thinking how the heck did I take 20 credits one semester sophomore year?
16. You constantly have pep talks with yourself to not be a complete slacker. “Only one more month, you can do this. You’re amazing. Look at you doing great things.”
17. You keep strolling through campus with your head held high and a smile on your face. Even though it breaks your heart a little more each time, you want to soak up every building and random person you walk by because don’t know how many more times you have of this.
18. Tears have been starting to build up lately at unexpected moments. While you're in chapter, or a really good class discussion, or you're watching a movie on Sunday with your roommate. Ordinary, day to day moments, are suddenly standing out to you as the most important seconds you’ll have this last semester.
19. You feel strange that everything means so much and is making you emotional. You're finding it odd how hard saying goodbye now seems, it always seemed so far away and now you can’t even wrap your head around it.
20. You're being abnormally thankful for all the poor judgment decisions you’ve made and the crazy things you’ve done, because you know they are your best college memories.
21. You look forward to dancing on tables and singing obnoxiously loud with your best friends at the bars on Friday night because is the best part of your week.
22. You resent the thought of how soon this will all be over. However, simultaneously you’re okay with it. You have peace of mind because you know you lived every single day in college to the fullest and you don’t regret one second. Your college experience is indescribable and you’re beyond blessed that it’s your experience to hold on to forever.

If any of these apply to you, I’m sorry to inform you that you have a horrible case of senioritis.