1. You’ve befriended employees of the school, like janitors and cashiers, just from how often you encounter them.
2. Random underclassmen recognize your face and already know your name before you introduce yourself.
3. You know exactly which professors are generous with extensions and which ones are sticklers.
4. You’re so over the novelties about your campus that the office of admissions likes to flaunt, like that abstract art piece or an especially expensive academic building.
5. You hate that your younger friends are just freaking out about their summer plans while you’re freaking out about post-grad plans a.k.a. the rest of your life.
6. You’ve been to every type of party and can rate them based on venue, drink selection, crowd and exclusivity.
7. You aren’t afraid to joke around with certain professors like you would with your friends.
8. You have a stockpile of school T-shirts you never wear but you own because they were giving them out for free.
9. When you tell underclassmen how old you are, they make no effort to hide their astonishment.
10. You’re exhausted by how eager the younger kids are about socializing and going out.
11. Whenever your college makes a change, you reminisce about how old times were better and say: “Back when I was a freshman…”
12. Now that you’re 21 and you don’t have a birthday to look forward to, you envy the underage youngsters.
13. The dating pool is especially small for you — it’s slim pickings because you either know too much about the guys’ (bad) reputations, or they’ve all already dated one of your friends.