Senior Year v. Freshmen Year

In one way, it seems like I arrived at OC a couple days ago and in another, I feel like I've been here my whole life. But life as a senior is completely different than life as a freshman. I'll give you a list of difference I notice looking back:

Freshmen Year

• Once you've arrived on campus, you feel like you've just made the worst mistake of your life.
• You stay out right until curfew just because you can. Forget about being tired or having homework that is due the next day. And on the weekends you stay up until 3 or 4 in the morning.
• You eat in the Caf for almost every meal because there is only 1 kitchen in the dorm for about 200 other students.
• Community bathroom become a way of life.
• "Open House" night is what you look forward to every month because it is the only time you can have the person of the opposite sex in your room.
• Everyone knows everyone in their dorm.

Senior Year

• You call school "home" even when you are actually home on vacations.
• You're in your apartment by 8 r 9 at night and go to bed by midnight at the latest. Make it 10:30 if you have an 8 a.m. class and are still in bed by midnight or 1 on the weekends.
• Your homework gets done because you know the consequences of failing a class...
• You try to avoid the Caf at all costs unless you are going with a friend because a) you don't know anyone there, b) the immaturity level is crazy, and c) you actually have your own kitchen to cook in!
• You now share a bath and a half with only 3 other people and nobody is fighting over the shower.
• Your friends of the opposite sex can come visit because it is no longer awkward since you have a living room with a couch instead of just room with a bed. (Believe me, that was so weird)
• You barely know your next door neighbors because you mostly just stay in your apartment.