As a returning Junior to College, I’ve noticed a few habits that arise during the first few weeks back to school. Of course, once you get to college you’ll understand the joy of summer after finals and then about a month into summer, home with your parents and working constantly, you’ll want to go back to school. Love you mom and dad, but all of a sudden you’re constant questions (i.e. “Where are you going?”, “Who are you going with?”, “When will you be home?”…) are extremely annoying.

There are a few things that we are all guilty of when returning to school.

1. You forgot how hard it was

Seriously, you actually forgot what College entails. In your mind, the previous year consisted of endless nights of hanging out with your friends, parties, games, and eating out. Then, you go back and realize that you have to do homework and essays and projects, which are all thrown at you on the first day by the way. No more days of, here's the syllabus now go home and I'll see you next class. Nope.

It’s like your mind blocked out the pain and crippling stress of College, filling your mind with images of movie nights, campus events, and tearing up the town, and leaving out the bad stuff. Well, welcome back kids, to a life full of 2:00AM all-nighters and changing the font size in your word document to reach the page limit.

2. Constant Exhaustion

You are literally tired all of the time. No matter how much sleep you get, or how munch caffeine you shoot up in an IV, you’re exhausted. Don’t get me wrong, I nap a lot during the school year, but it really accomplishes nothing. If anything, I’m more tired after taking a nap, because I try to do the typical twenty-minute nap that’s supposed to ‘re-energize’ you and end up waking up three hours later.

And sure, during class I feel like I could fall asleep in seconds if I could just find a position that didn’t rise suspicion from the professor, but once I’m in my bed at 10:00PM, trying to get some sleep, all I can think about is putting Bob’s Burgers on. When I’m actually supposed to sleep, I’m not tired. Go figure.

3. None of Your Classes are What You Expected

Sure, Plants and People sounds like a cool course to take. An easy course about indigenous peoples using different plants for drugs and food and other medicinal uses, but first day and you’re talking about history and weird Greek terms that sound like the adults from Charlie Brown.

And let’s not forget about that general education course on English where you assumed you’d read a few classics and discuss them, but no. You’re reading from some $90 textbook with random articles on women versus men and writing a twelve-page essay on it.

I think it’s safe to say that everything in College is never what you’d hope for or think it would be.

4. You’ve Already Called your Mom

I’m definitely guilty of this, only now my incessant questioning is facilitated by me commuting. Sorry mom, but I will forever ask you simple questions to which I should know the answer since I’m legally an adult, but don’t.

Seriously, your mom knows the answer to everything. I don’t know why or how, but I swear it’s true. Not that you’re not helpful dad, but I’ll call you when I need to fix my bookshelf or my car stops working.

5. Your Diet is Shot

I’m sorry, diet? What diet? Can you define a diet? Oh, yeah, it’s that thing where I eat healthy for two weeks then binge every horrible thing you can eat in one day and stop dieting for a few months before guiltily returning to it for another week or so.

I try. I mean I really try, but when the options are eating, exercise, or sleep. I’m probably going to choose sleep. Or at least, lying down on the couch while watching Netflix.

6. You Think About Exercising Constantly

I do, honestly. I mean, my college provides one for free (Well, not exactly free, I mean I pay thousands of dollars in tuition each year, but whatever). SO, why shouldn’t I take advantage of that? It’s the same think as the dieting situation; I’ll never choose it over relaxing or sleeping.

Sure, you’ll convince yourself at night that the next day you’ll go for a run after class. And I truly get myself to believe it. But then, it’s 3:00PM, you’ve got homework, and you’re tired and hungry, so there goes that plan.

7. Netflix

Ah, the infamous Netflix. The answer to all your troubles. The addictive source of all types of entertainment: dramatic and outrageous Tv shows, foreign film, cheesy 80’s movies, and those gross documentaries that you swear you’ve never seen, but secretly you’ve watched about six of them.

I swear that every time I return to school, I find at least three shows that I have never seen before and need to binge them as fast as possible. This year was The Handmaid’s Tale, Riverdale, and then re-watching the classics (The Office, New Girl, and Bob’s Burgers – oh, the last one is Hulu; also a gem of a site).

8. Your Books are the Most Expensive

Nothing beats the cost of your books, except maybe your tuition. It’s probably the thing that angers me most about college. I mean, the institution is already getting enough money from me that’ll I’ll be in debt for the rest of my life, so why do they need a couple extra thousand from me? Especially when I won’t even use half of the books?

Granted, the further I get in college, the more I do sue my books, so I’m not quite as upset as I was Freshmen year, before I understood the beauty of buying used off of Amazon and Chegg.

All I’m saying is that my books should not cost more than a car payment.

9. You’ve Already Procrastinated Something

You know you have. Enough said.

10. You Wish You Were a Senior

As soon as you start back up, you imagine you’ll be graduating soon. Onto adult life, which I’m not sure why, because that’s terrifying.

But mostly, you just wish you were a millionaire who didn’t have to stress about paying for school or even going to school for that matter.