With my Junior year of college creeping up on me I have had some major realizations and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Junior year is a scary thing. I wanted to share a handful of my realizations with you in hopes that maybe someone will understand or maybe I will open your eyes to some things you haven't thought about just yet.
You are no longer in the sophomore slump.
So we all have heard the term sophomore slump and maybe some of us have actually experienced a shit show of a sophomore year. As a sophomore, you're kind of expected to be a mess. You either drink way to much and your grades slip or you just still haven't figured out how to balance your life. Junior year you're expected to get your shit together because well your more than likely no longer a teenager and if you survived sophomore year hopefully you learned that being a shit show is really stressful and getting your life together is your only option.
A lot of your friends will graduate within the next year.
If you are anything like me you have made a handful of friends who are a year ahead of you. Unfortunately this means that they will be graduating at the end of the semester and then they have to become adults and you will envy them in some ways and in other ways this will scare the shit out of you because guess what that means, You are next and the real world is a lot closer than you think.
You graduate in 2 years.
For some reason when you are a sophomore graduation seems a million miles away and something that you never have to worry about. Once you cross that bridge into upperclassdom shit gets real and it's time to panic. Why are you panicking? Well because you still need a boatload of credits and upper division classes and you still need to figure out an internship and just a lot of stressful things come with graduation.
The real world is creeping up on you.
How the hell am I supposed to be an adult when I call my mom at 5 am crying because I'm sick and can't sleep? You probably still rely on your parents for a lot of things. Personally, my parents still insist on doing a lot for me like making sure I keep up with car maintenance they also lend me money if I'm in desperate need. Once you graduate I feel like it's inappropriate to still rely on your parents for small things like this but I honestly can't imagine not having help.
Hopefully, we make it out of junior year alive. May the odds be ever in your favor.
