If you're a junior like me or were a junior last year, then I'm sure you can relate to some, if not all, of these. They say these four years are the best years in your life, but it isn't all glamorous. It's really more like a roller coaster — the ups and downs — even hanging you upside down taking everything you have to not fall out. But in the end it all works out right? At least that's the glimpse of hope we're supposed to believe in.
You're a second semester college junior if:
1. Your bank account looks like goose eggs because rent, groceries and booze. You've never been more broke in your life.
2. People still ask if you're in high school (but you're graduating from college next year).
3. You stop buying your sorority/fraternity apparel because you sadly realize you won't be wearing it much longer and you already have so much.
4. Facebook is covered with engagement announcements, but it seems like you just graduated high school last month.
5. Graduate school and GREs get brought up way too much as if you aren't already broke.
6. You panic trying to find a summer internship.
7. There's the sad reality that internships are impossible to get, yet everyone expects us to have one kicks in.
8. Everyone asks what you're doing this summer and you wish they would stop.
9. You realize you'll be returning to the same summer job just to pay the bills.
10. It's your last summer of freedom (kind of). So, you need to live it up. Hello, vacation!
11. "The Best Years of Your Life" are coming to an end. You wonder if you've done everything you wanted, joined the right clubs and made enough friends and memories.
12. Registering for classes is stressful and you have to make sure you have all requirements complete so you don't become a fifth year.
13. You turned 21 and suddenly everyone seems young too you.
14. Completing your final FAFSA is slightly joyous.
15. But then the thought of student loans slowly crosses your mind.
16. You spend more time in the career center than class.
17. LinkedIn is bookmarked on your Chrome.
18. You tell yourself you'll slowly stop watching Netflix to prepare for senior year.
19. But then the "Gilmore Girls" revival is announced so you know that won't be happening.
20.. You're excited to live in a house or apartment next year so you don't have to pay for laundry anymore.
21. You're finally able to escape the dreaded school meal plans.
22. And you're excited to be able to cook your own meals in your own kitchen.
23. You decide it's time to lose the Freshmen 15.
24. You're either in a very serious relationship, basically engaged or as single as a dollar bill.
25. You're bank account still hasn't recovered from studying abroad.
26. You check your email more than Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
27. That beloved student discount will soon be no more so you ask everywhere you go if they have one.
28. You start to need recommendation letters from professors and realize you should have gone to office hours in those first five semesters.
29. You can put up Christmas lights in your room next year without feeling guilty or hiding them for RA inspections.
30. You signed your first lease and feel like you're starting to adult.
31. You no longer have to share a bathroom with a whole hall of people.
32. You'll finally have a parking spot of your own — one that you don't have to pay $800 for.
33. You've competed to a major.
34. That "free time in college" you once heard about is definitely not in your foreseeable future.
35. Everywhere you turn, you know someone on campus.
36. You care more about networking than your classes — as they say "it's not what you know, it's who you know."
37. You try to pick up an extra campus job so you can earn more money to have an amazing senior spring break.
38. You're attending every free food event so you don't spend money on groceries.
39. You can't afford your Starbucks addiction anymore.
40. Graduation is so close yet so far.
