I leave for college again in a week. It will be my third move-in day and my last one on campus since next year I'll be moving in for my final semester spent in Nashville. But let me tell you, it doesn't get easier whether you are a freshman or a senior. I'm honestly dreading the day so I thought I'd write about it and hopefully bring some humor to a bad situation. So here are five thoughts associated with going back to school:

How am I going to fit all of this in my car?

It is truly incredible the amount of stuff people, especially girls, bring to college. Honestly, most of it is necessary, but there comes that time when you think, what's more important, bringing my life-sized teddy bear or seeing out my back mirror? Tough decisions will be made.

Classes start tomorrow? I guess I should check if I need a textbook.

Freshman year is totally different, you probably had your books at least two-weeks before orientation. After that, you worry about textbooks if you get to class and the professor threatens to dock your final grade if you don't have the book. This leads to frantically asking friends if they have it, trying to find it on every bargain books place online, but rarely does it ever lead to going to the campus bookstore and paying for an overpriced book. Those things are ridiculously expensive!

I miss my dog already.

Leaving your dog is debatably the hardest part of going back to college. You can call your mom weekly, daily, let's be honest, multiple times a day sometimes. But you can't call your dog. One day you're there, the next 21-days you're gone. It's terrible. You wish you could tell him that you have to go because it's college and people claim you need it in life and blah blah blah, but who knows what he's thinking? Apparently you can get a pet-chat thing on Amazon for $400 that fixes this problem. Someone try it and tell me if it works.

Only ____ days 'til summer!

For me it's 262-days between move-in and the last day of finals. Yes, I just looked it up. If it makes you feel any better, think of it as 37-weeks and three-days or 180-working days and 82-non-working days. Shout out to the internet and countdown apps that make setting goals easier. I'm going to go put weekly countdowns into my calendar because I definitely can't handle eight-months of school but I can handle 262-days! Take out breaks and holidays and wow. I got this!