1. You and everyone on your course will have a dissertation-related breakdown at least once.
2. Except for that one person who will feel the need to brag about what little work they've done.
3. You'll constantly be checking in on how other people are getting on with theirs, to gauge whether you should relax or be very, very worried.
9/10 if I'm asking if you started an assignment or studying it's because I haven't either and I want to make myself feel better
4. You'll suddenly become very well acquainted with the library.
5. But unfortunately, so will everyone else.
Welcome to uni guys. The place where the library is always always full.
So you'll have to plan your trips strategically and go late at night or early before lectures.
6. You'll wonder if all these library trips are worth it after people tell you their graduate unemployment horror stories.
7. You'll start to derive inexplicable levels of joy in checking out a book that someone has made notes in.
8. Your back will hurt from the sheer amount of textbooks you have in your bag at any given time.
9. And at some point, every book you need will be checked out, presumably by someone who is clearly out to sabotage your grades.
10. Family members will starting asking horrible questions like "What are your plans after graduation?"
11. And "So, have you found a job yet?"
12. Or "How many have you actually applied for?"
13. You'll scream internally every time someone mentions how long you have left until uni is over.
14. And it's hard to go out and enjoy yourself because you'll randomly remember the impending doom of your deadlines.
When ur out partying and having a great time then remember u have a 8 page paper due in the A.M. 🙃
15. You will violently eye-roll whenever you hear a first year complain about their workload.
16. Your social media feeds will become flooded with Survey Monkey links.
17. Although to be fair, you will be borderline begging people to take your survey once you get round to making it.
18. You'll become a maths genius as you try to calculate what grades you need in order to scrape by with the classification you want.
19. All the printing you have to do will seriously drain your finances.
20. And at one point during dissertation season, all the printers are going to break and you will go into a state of panic.
21. When those last year exams come, your room will become a weird shrine to revision mind maps.
22. But once you've handed in your dissertation and taken your last exam, you will enjoy a solid week of partying.
23. During those post-exam nights out, you will promise to stay in touch with everyone.
24. You will become weirdly attached to the buildings as it dawns on you that you will leave there soon.
25. So you'll make the most of that final summer in your university's town.
26. And when you finally get to graduate, all the stress of your last year would have been worth it.
