Adjusting to the summer can be a confusing, and sometimes difficult process for college students. Four months of a semester come to a stressful, coffee-fueled climax during finals, and then suddenly you're home and your friends are scattered throughout the country. But then you have your family, your home friends, and best of all, it's warm out. While summer is definitely great, the adjustment process can be a little odd, to say the least.

Stage 1: Sleep

Let's be real: the first thing you do when you get home is go to sleep for a long, long time. Maybe you sleep for 14 hours straight; maybe you don't get out of bed for two days. Whatever your style, you worked hard all semester, and you deserve some rest.

Stage 2: Unpacking

Face it, you can't live out of your suitcase forever. Maybe, if you're lucky, one of your parents does your laundry and puts it all away for you, but if not, you might have to set aside a few hours to get settled back in.

Stage 3: High School Friends

FINALLY, all of your friends from high school are home, and you can revert back to your 17-year-old selves by reliving old jokes and doing your favorite things again. You haven't seen them in four months, maybe longer, and that's just too damn long to go without your best friends.

Stage 4: Work

Isn't summer supposed to be work-free?? Whatever you're doing for the summer -- taking classes, doing an internship, or working at a real (read: paid) job -- suddenly it hits you that you're gonna have to prepare for it.

Stage 5: Settling In

It finally happens: you have a schedule. You're sleeping (enough), seeing friends, doing work, and enjoying summer. Congrats: you made it. Now enjoy.