In partnership with Adobe Creative Cloud, we invited 10 Gen Z creatives to tell their stories on BuzzFeed. Check out Make The Feed for more content from Generation Create.
1. Expectation: Being on time for class because you don’t have to commute.
Reality: You're 45 minutes late to your hour-long lecture.
2. Expectation: Waking up early to study before class.
Reality: You wake up at noon — on a good day.
3. Expectation: Catching up on schoolwork and completing assignments with no distractions.
Reality: Your family members or roommates shout outside your door while you’re doing a presentation.
4. Expectation: Setting up the perfect workspace at home so you can be productive.
Reality: Your ~productive~ workspace may have started looking less like a desk and a chair and more like your unmade bed.
5. Expectation: Turning on your webcam to interact with the professor and other students.
Reality: You’re sitting on your bed and wearing the same pajamas you've had on for three days straight.
6. Expectation: Taking a short, 20-minute nap between classes.
Reality: You wake up two hours later.
7. Expectation: Paying attention and taking notes in class because your friends aren't there to distract you.
Reality: You’re messaging friends during class...complaining about said class.
8. Expectation: Thinking the professor will adjust the syllabus because of the pandemic and give less assignments.
Reality: You have three projects due in two days, a discussion post due tomorrow, and a midterm next week.
9. Expectation: Deciding you ~won't~ procrastinate on your assignment and will finish it two days before the deadline.
Reality: You’re suddenly trying to BS your way through a 2,000-word paper five minutes before it's due.
10. Expectation: Going to your professor's office hours now that you have more free time.
Reality: You missed every office hours. Oh, and the exam is on Monday.
