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Your First Year Of College As Told By 'Friends'

So no one told you life was gonna be this way?

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Your First Year Of College As Told By 'Friends'
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Your first year of college can be a scary thing. A lot of doubts, a lot of debating on dropping out and becoming a stripper, and a lot, A LOT of 3 a.m. pizza while Netflixing. One of my favorites over the course of this year was "Friends," who coincidentally seem to have faced the same struggles us first-year college students have. Let's take a look.

Getting to college and wondering if you'll ever make friends so you're just like:

Realizing you have no idea how to do basic adulting like doing laundry so you end up like:

Going to all the club info-meetings just for the free food and declaring your love like:


Wondering how you'll ever make it through your 8 a.m. like:

Being amazed with what your advisers can do for you like:

Desperately trying to make the word count on your million-word essay so you'll literally do anything like:

After you take your first midterm and realize the professor doesn't curve the tests so you curse him for all of eternity like:

Seeing all the college guys for the first time and you're just like:

And when you finally talk to one and you're all excited like:

But then you realize he's got other girls so you're all like:

And then wondering why you always make the worst decisions (see above) so you feel sorry for yourself like:

And also like staying up until 3 a.m. when you have an early class, and then complaining about how tired you are all day, but doing it again that night anyway so you're just like:


Getting home for Thanksgiving break and asking yourself why your professors assigned homework and you try to make sense of it like:

Suffering through your biology class learning about oligosaccharides like:

Trying to understand your calculus and finally getting it much, much later than everyone but when you finally get it and you're all like:

When you get home for Christmas and all your family members want to talk about how school is going but you just brush it off like:

And then spring break rolls around and you have more homework so you question your entire life like:

When your family is asking why you look so much "rounder" in all your Facebook photos and you're just like:

When it's the last week of school and you have two exams, a project, a paper, and a speech and you just react like:

When you're done with all your finals and you kinda regret not studying but then you realize how much work that would've been and you're just like:

And enjoying all your time with your awesome, new friends that you love so much like:

And realizing you have three more years with them so you celebrate like:

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