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Issue 5
7 REASONS WHY JUNIOR YEAR IS ACTUALLY THE WORST Katy Martin wrote this
Everyone has his or her own opinion about college, but the consensus is it’s the best four years of your life. Well, best three years—one of those years actually sucks. You’d think your first year as an upperclassmen would be awesome, but here are some reasons why junior year is actually the worst. You’re the first of your friends to turn 21: You’ve been looking forward to doing the amazing bar crawl that you’ve heard so much about. You can’t wait to do after school club at Brother’s, conquer the Great Indoorsman at Harry’s, and dance your ass off at the Neon Cactus. But unfortunately, none of your friends are 21 yet, which means you’ll be the designated booze buyer for everyone. Or… You’re the last of your friends to turn 21: All of your friends and classmates are going on and on about how great Cactus Thursdays are, and are making plans for the weekend that all require being of age. You’ll be 21 soon enough (at least, that’s what you keep telling yourself to get over being the baby). Your friends are going to get tired of frat parties, even if the booze is free. You’re getting tired of school: All of the hard work, zero of the motivation. By your junior year, a lot of your classes are very relevant to what you want to do with the rest of your life (if you’re lucky enough to know what you want to do). But you’ve been in school for the past 15 years of your life, isn’t it over yet? And unfortunately, your GPA still matters this year. People are so caught up in their schoolwork that finding a table in Hicks is near impossible. People are finally treating you like an adult, and you’re starting to hate it: People keep asking you the same questions: “What do you plan on doing when you graduate?”, “Do you have an internship lined up for this summer?”, “Are you seeing anyone serious?” Meanwhile, you’re still hoping that your mom has filed all the paperwork for your FAFSA and done your taxes. You have more responsibilities than you know how to deal with: Cable bills, rent, book expenses, job searches, networking, cook-
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ing, cleaning, blah, blah, blah. Whatever happened to being able to take a nap after lunch? Now you have to fill that time with work. Oh, and the money you were supposed to use for rent you instead used on $1 double-wells at Brother’s. The real world is approaching at a scary-fast rate: You can’t believe you’re going to graduate after next year! Where will you live? How will you get a job? Will you have to move back to Noblesville? How many classes would you have to fail in order to get to stay at college another year? You only have one year of college left: Holy shit, it’s the end of your junior year. You’re a senior now—
your college career is nearing its end. And you’ll spend all of your senior year reminiscing with your friends about that time freshman year your friend fell asleep at Beering Fountain walking back from a frat party. Or when your other friend threw up peach schnapps on strangers at your very first college party (we weren’t allowed back to that house). College has been a hell of a ride, but luckily you’re not getting off it just yet. Plus, your junior year will FLY by and before you know it, you and all your friends will be sipping on Baltimore Zoos during syllabooze week of your senior year.
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