If there is any group of people that can relate to the ups and downs we all face in college, it’s Harry Potter and his magical cohorts. Enjoy this story line of college struggles and triumphs illustrated by our beloved friends at Hogwarts.
You finally get that acceptance letter and realize you haven’t failed your parents (yet).
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Then your textbooks are so expensive, they might as well be attacking you.
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You make it a goal to wear nice clothes and fix your hair for class, but that all goes out the window after the first week.
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You gain the freshman 15 because you’re poor and cheap, fried food is all you can afford (say goodbye to home-cooked meals).
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There’s always that one professor who has no sense of humor.
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And that same professor records participation points and assigns homework every class.
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You normally have one class where you have no idea what’s going on 99 percent of the time.
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You experience several instances where you try to wave to a friend from class on campus and they don’t wave back.
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Finally, you get to experience the first Thirsty Thursday of the semester.
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You break it down with your friends at a frat party.
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And you have way too much fun on the car ride home.
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Things are great until your drunk friend gets upset about another guy/girl.
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And you are fed up with their feelings.
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You wake up for class Friday morning and hate yourself for partying so hard the night before.
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You actually have to leave class because your stomach is feeling all of those tequila shots that seemed like a great idea 12 hours ago.
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You never realized how much you missed football until you go to your first game of the season.
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(Mainly because it gives you an excuse to turn up with your friends.)
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You get to class one day and the person who never comes is sitting in your seat. You have to physically keep yourself from punching them in the face.
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You take your first exam of the semester and barely make it out alive.
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You decide to try the casual dating thing in college…
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Which could either land you in total bliss…
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Or leave you continuously jaded and bitter (it’s kind of a tossup).
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You get halfway through the semester and realize you’ve never needed to use your textbook even though that specific professor convinced you to buy it because you would “use it all the time.”
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You encounter that one person who talks loudly about their problems in the library while everyone else is trying to study.
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Finals week quickly approaches and you have at least four mental breakdowns.
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But it’s okay because you have that one highly motivated friend who studies with you.
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After many long days and late nights, you have made it through yet another semester of college.
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And while it might have been shambly at moments, it was the best freaking time of your life.
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