1. Expectation: School will get easier towards the end.
Reality: You still have to pull all-nighters during finals week.
2. Expectation: Professors will go easy on you.
Reality: They will go HAM on you because you are now highly-educated and they expect more.
3. Expectation: All of your friends are ready to move on and lead successful lives.
Reality: Nobody really knows what they are doing.
4. Expectation: You and your friends can easily reunite together after you graduate.
Reality: All of your friends end up on the opposite side of the country and you are too poor to visit each other.
5. Expectation: Graduation will be super exciting and stress-free just like everyone has been telling you it would be!
Reality: You have fifteen family members coming into town to see you graduate, then you have a week left with your closest friends until you separate until who knows when….cue complete emotional breakdown.