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The 9 Stages Of The Sophomore Slump

Sophomore year isn't anyone's cup of tea, but I guess we should enjoy college while we still can.

Olivia Sanders

Oct 16, 2018

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1. Summer before fall of sophomore year

You made it through freshman year, and it was fun, some of the most fun you NEVER want to have again. Part of you is excited for the fun to be had in the year ahead; however, you're still thinking about the major specific courses you're going to have to tackle in the upcoming semesters.

2. Realizing freshman year and sophomore year are totally different

Maximum work and minimal play? Sounds terrible... welcome to your sophomore year where syllabus week is a dead concept.

3. Forming unhealthy coping mechanisms

What better way to stay out of touch with reality than avoid it, right?

4. Mental breakdowns, mental breakdowns and more mental breakdowns

The pinnacle of the true college experience: mental breakdowns. The best part about them? Their timing, always impeccable. Just when you think things can't worse, they sure do.

5. When you have the time, but no longer the energy

Do you have the option to go out? Better get some coffee, because while you may finally have a night off school work, all you want to do is relax.

6. You're over the frats, but you certainly can't get into bars

The predicament of all predicaments... as a sophomore, where do you venture to on the weekends? God knows you aren't stumbling into a sweaty frat.

7. Watching those around you having fun

The only parties you're having these days are pity parties, and you're feeling nostalgia like never before for freshman year — or really any time that isn't this one.

8. Denial

Enjoy pretending everything is fine? You've come to the right place. We're right there with ya, Ross.

9. Feeling older than you actually are, and hating it

Dinner at 2:30 doesn't sound half bad when you're in bed by 8.

Unfortunately, sophomore year is known for the infamous slumps. I have found a way to laugh about it all at this point... that is when I am not crying.

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Sophomore year isn't anyone's cup of tea, but I guess we should enjoy college while we still can.

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1. Summer before fall of sophomore year

2. Realizing freshman year and sophomore year are totally different

3. Forming unhealthy coping mechanisms

4. Mental breakdowns, mental breakdowns and more mental breakdowns

5. When you have the time, but no longer the energy

6. You're over the frats, but you certainly can't get into bars

7. Watching those around you having fun

8. Denial

9. Feeling older than you actually are, and hating it

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1. When course schedules are released and you have a conflict between two required classes.

2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

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Because who understands your bitterness better than April?

1. When you have to provide an "interesting fact" for your first day ice-breaker.

2. When your professor is babbling on and on in his lecture.

3. When you edit your friend's paper and they get an A.

4. When it's 2 AM and you remember you have a test tomorrow.

5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

6. ...but then you get the test back and somehow passed.

7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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