1. You spent a lot of your winter break answering the question “what’s next?” And you pretty much gave a different answer each time. Grad school is a good go-to answer, even if you have not filled out a single application.

2. Thinking about what is next when you leave the safe haven of college throws you into a panic attack. Maybe you should fill out one of those applications.

3. You check Salukinet frequently to make sure you are actually going to graduate in May. Your advisor assured you that you are on track, but you still do the math about a hundred times.

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4. Even though you have checked to make sure you are going to graduate, you had no idea where any of your classes were this week, and chances are you were late to them all. What happened to the freshman who found the classroom the week before and was on time with paper and a working pen?

5. Speaking of not being a freshman anymore, you keep telling yourself you are not going to procrastinate this semester because you can no longer pull off all-nighters. That one last semester took you a week to recover from.

6. You are looking forward to Polar Bear not only because it involves day drinking with your friends, but because there will be naps and you will be in bed before midnight.

7. You openly admit that spending the night on the couch with wine and friends is considerably more fun than pushing your way through the crowd of what looks like middle schoolers who frequent the bars.

8. Your news feed is filled with engagements and babies. Because of that, you have learned to avoid social media on holidays – especially New Year’s Day – when the announcements come.

9. It seems like all of your friends are growing up and being successful, yet your biggest accomplishment of the day is fitting in a nap.

10. But do not worry. Before that big day in May, before you have to start paying off those student loans and before you have to find your own success, you have one semester left. So scream our generation’s battle cry – YOLO – to the sky and go out a winner. Plus you still have one more spring break to look forward to, even though you will most likely feel ancient wherever you go. “Spring Break Forever.”

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