As 2017 approaches, it’s a time that everyone looks forward to. It’s a time for new beginnings, fresh starts, and opportunities. Everyone looks forward to attending their New Years Eve parties, and can’t wait for the moment that they clink their glasses of champagne and toast to the New Year. Everyone…except for those who are not quite old enough yet for the complimentary drink. As a 20-year-old, and two months away from my birthday, I am so close I can almost taste the cheap bubbly. But I can’t taste it yet. So, here is what new years is like for us 20-year-olds...

1. Thinking about New Years like….

2. Then realizing you're still 20...

3. When all of your 21+ friends are trying to decide where to go for a New Years party and ask where you want to go and you’re just like…

4. They finally decide on a party, and you know you probably won’t get to participate in the “complimentary champagne.”

5. When you walk into the party without a 21+ wrist band...

6. So you just watch everyone get drunk...

7. It's finally time!!! Everyone raises their glasses of champagne and your like..

8. Your friends stumble towards you and you realize your driving them home…again..

9. But you think about next year and know this will all be but a distant memory..