There comes a time in our lives where we feel as if our lives are nowhere near together. The normal college student comes to realize this, hmm, I'd say at least once a week during their four years. We change our major every other week, we have no money to do anything, and yet somehow we make it through these tough four years of our lives. But when you feel down and out about the quizzes and the tests, and trying to work a full time job on top of everything, just remember this: it is OK not to have your life together in college.

For starters, for some of us more than others, the work load can get a little out of hand. We stay awake at all hours of the night to finish our assignments and to study for exams. Once you reach adulthood the amount of tests and quizzes you have to take reaches a number you'd never thought you'd see. Not to mention the ridiculous time frames the teachers give us to take it, and not to mention if we can't take it in class we hear something like this: "Oh you can't take it on your own computer kids, it must be taken at a testing lab." So to add on to the amount of homework you have tonight you must go to a designated testing lab to your 10 question quiz. The time we spend studying making sure we don't fail wears and tears at us emotionally and physically. Not only do we want to never see another study guide by the end of the week, we also are running on zero sleep.

On top of all the homework, studying, and tests we have to do in college, we try to do this one thing we call "work" on top of it all, to spare us a small amount of change to actually eat dinner and pay our rent. An average college student takes somewhere between 12-18 credit hours, so finding a job that will actually work around the few hours you have to spare is hard in itself. But if you find yourself lucky enough to receive employment, you may also find yourself running home from class to make it to work, ending up going to class in your work clothes, or just being down right exhausted by the end of the day — but oh wait: you have homework to do, don't forget!

College is suppose to be the best four years of our lives they tell us. They say college will be fun. What they didn't tell us is that finding time for our social lives to actually guarantee those best four years of our lives is harder than we ever thought it would be. We are told that college is the time that we must take seriously and focus hard on our grades to get a good job and a good salary when we graduate, but life isn't all work and no play right? In college we find the slight amount of time on the weekends to actually relax and do this whole college thing. Now that may be in between work, class, and any other scholarly responsibilities you may have, but some how we get there.

You see, college students are actually a mess. We stay up all hours of the night trying to make the right grades, we go to work to hopefully earn some cash to stay alive, and we try to fit in our social lives within it all. So just remember when one tells you to get your life together, in college it's OK not to have your life together.

Word of advice though, after this four years, you may wanna find your life and put it together.