The Harsh Truths about College

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You get into your dream school, and you and your family are so excited. Go to college, they said. It will be fun, they said.

You roll up on move in day and you see your dorm room for the first time…

Soon you discover the horror of 8 a.m. classes…

You show up to math class and you can’t understand your professor.

 

 

And all of the sudden it’s time for your first exam. So you study really hard, but still feel unprepared.

 

And then you see the test.

 

You were so busy preparing for the exam that you fell behind on all your other homework

 

But instead, you decide to go out…

 

When your parents call to check in and ask how school is going, you’re like:

 

 

Then your classes seem to get even more pointless, and you wonder how this information will help your future.

 

And then finals week starts approaching.

 

You begin preparing for the week of hell.

 

But instead of studying, you procrastinate

 

You force yourself to study, drink too much caffeine, and sleep for five hours over a five-day period.

 

After each semester ends, you wonder what fresh hell the next semester will bring.

 

You come to the realization that everything you learned from movies and television about college was a total and complete lie.