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: