Well, you did it.

First semester is done, you have handed in the paper from that core class you should have taken sophomore year and you’re finally a second semester senior. Go home for break smiling with the knowledge that this is officially your house. Try to balance the happiness of knowing that you’ve made it with the chronic fear the word graduation gives you. It’s okay guys, I’m right there with you.

Here are some thoughts from a fellow 2018-er trying to process how fast life goes:

1. Somehow still watching Riverdale and wondering when you’re going to be too old to watch high school drama shows
2. Time to get off of MySlice and get on to LinkedIn
3. Running into freshman year friends at bars and wondering why you’re not friends anymore
3b Talking to them and remembering
4. Being excited to go home and give your family the gifts that you bought them at the bookstore with your SUpercard PLUS card
5. Going back to your high school job to earn a quick couple hundred dollars to pay for rent and or beer — whatever is cheaper
6. Being happy to be home — until January 2nd and then praying for that sweet 315 air
7. Trying to figure out which alcohol-related class is the easiest one for next semester
8. Quitting every organization you’re a part of because you work hard and just want to watch Netflix
9. Realizing that you’ve already watched everything on Netflix and then rejoin those organizations
10. Wait — so where are these jobs everyone is talking about?
11. RSVP-ing yes to every Facebook party invite that you receive and end up actually going because you don’t have work
12. Talking with your friends about how you want to go out to different places this semester as you walk to Lucy’s — formally known as Bruegger’s
13. Saying that you’re going extra hard this semester, as if the five nights a week you’ve been going out for four years wasn’t hard enough
14. Prepping to spend one more semester living large with your best friends

Obi Afriyie, Syracuse University Class of 2018