There are a lot of things that we wait for during our twelve years of school: our first date, getting our driver's licenses, going to prom, but there's one day that brought equal amounts of dread and excitement. We wore our best outfits and put on too much makeup. The kids that always wore sweatpants put on a fancy outfit and the cool kids tried even harder to make it seem like they didn't care by dressing the part. We will always look back on this day and wonder why we thought it was such a big deal. No matter what group you were in, there was no escaping school picture day, and because of that there are a few things we all know too well.

1. You tried to look your best that day

You had to break out your best outfit so you could be immortalized in style.

2. But only from the waist up

Let's be real, you saw a lot of people rocking dress shirts and sweatpants.

3. There was always at least one person that just didn't care

They would show up in a wrinkled shirt or even pajamas because they were just "too cool" to care about school pictures.

4. And one person that cared too much

The polar opposite of the kid that didn't care was the kid that showed up looking totally different than her regular look, complete with too much makeup and an outfit just shy of a prom dress.

5. You desperately hoped you got your picture taken before gym class

The last thing you need was to get sweaty or mess up your hair before you got your picture taken.

6. And before lunch

If you managed to escape the dangers of gym class you still had to make your way through lunch, and chances are they were serving Sloppy Joes or tomato soup that day.

7. You always ordered a bunch of pictures to pass out to friends

We all had to have a ton of wallet sized pictures so that our friends could remember us forever, not that we'd want anyone to have a school picture as the way they see us for the rest of their lives.

8. But never actually did and now you have 673 pictures from third grade

Even if you planned on passing out pictures, you never did once the time came and now you have a ton of embarrassing pictures and no idea what to do with them.

9. No matter how hard you tried you never got a good picture

Try as you might, you got something on your outfit, messed up your hair, or made a weird face and ended up with a horrible picture. You tried not to think about it until next year's pictures, or at least until the yearbook came out and everyone saw just how bad you looked.