Now that midsummer is approaching, I am pretty much itching to get back to school and back into my normal groove. But in the mean time in NOVA…

1. There is simultaneously nothing, and everything, to do

You are probably roughly an hour to 30 minutes away from DC, maybe even closer to Tyson’s Corner, and there are ample cool new restaurants around where you live smack dab in the middle of suburbia. The problem is you probably are low on cash, and there are so many options you end up just doing the usual: nothing.

2. You went to a huge high school and when you come home from college you seem to run into everyone you don’t want to talk to

Dyes hair, changes name, and moves to new country in order to stop running into old high school “friends.”

3. Traffic

You probably learned to drive like a professional race car driver with the combined skills of go-karting in order to keep up with traffic and not be run off the road. The traffic was there when you left for college and it seems like it never left upon your return home.

4. You love and hate where you are from

When you are at school, you miss all the amenities that come with living in NOVA. Now when you come home, all the things you seemed to miss suddenly get on your last nerve.

5. The weather

Some days it is gorgeous; other days it’s humid and muggy with a slight chance of too much rain.

6. The congestion

There are so many people, everywhere, all the time.

7. Everyone seems like they are super rich

How did you get stuck driving your mom’s old minivan when people from your old high school are rolling up in their brand new BMW?

8. Your neighbors are doctors or government employees or in the military

Seeing how successful all these adults around me are is stressing me out about my life choices.

9. Southern?

Being classified as a southern state but having no idea about southern living. Are we really part of the south or…??? It is your call but, your high school was probably a mix of wannabe country guys who wore all camo and had lifted trucks that they parked in their driveway after school, but also of normal people just trying to live life.

10. Construction

Literally something, somewhere is under construction as we speak in NOVA.