When your student loans are literally nightmare-inducing:
When you have morning class right after going out to a party the night before and you’re regretting ALL your life choices:
When you realize that the only thing you’re actually learning is how to be resourceful:
When you crawl into class to turn in an assignment after an all-nighter:
When you’re ready to quit, but realize your tuition is worth too much to give up now:
When your books arrive and you realize you just dropped enough money to furnish your entire dorm room:
When you end up in class with that one professor who can’t even be chill during syllabus week:
When you’ve got a paper due the next morning that you haven’t even started:
When you have so much work to do that procrastinating sounds like the best option:
When Saturday is an island of enjoyment on your calendar:
When you skip an entire semester’s worth of classes and it comes back to bite you when you take your final:
When it’s already Christmas break in your mind, but you’ve got an entire week of exams standing in between you and vacation:
When you have to go into office hours to try and sweet-talk your professor into raising your grade from a B+ to an A-:
When it seems like you’re majoring in procrastination with a minor in napping:
When you’re trying to be gourmet AF in your dorm kitchen, but even ramen is outside your budget:
When class should have ended at 10 but it’s 10:05 and your professor is showing no signs of slowing down:
When you’re highlighting the “important” parts of the reading for your exam and realize you’ve not been paying attention the entire semester:
When your stomach is growling during class but you know if you pull out some food this is bound to happen:
When you’re trying to tackle a paper AND an exam that are both the next day, and you don’t realize how fried your brain is until something like this happens:
When you have to settle for dinner from the vending machine because you don’t have time to break for a real meal:
When you’re part of a group project and everyone else seems to know what they’re doing, and you just sit there hoping no one asks you a question:
When you start questioning what you’re actually paying all that tuition money for:
And finally, when you look back and realize the college struggle doesn’t end when you graduate: