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The 8 Stages of Seeing Someone You Know Off Campus

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Conn Coll chapter.

When you’re in college and you go off campus to a popular location, odds are you will run into someone you know…or kind-of know. Lets be honest, we’ve all had those encounters with people we only slightly know, and it can get pretty awkward!  

1) When you think you recognize the person so you stare at her and try to place her not realizing how crazy you actually look…

2) You finally figure out who they are, but then try to decide how well you actually know the person and she seems to do the same thing…

3) You then have the internal struggle about whether to smile, wave, or say hi…

4) Because of that struggle you end up with something like this…

5) To which the other person responds with…

6) All you can think about now is how awkward the last 20 seconds were and in your head. You’re like…

7) And you just want to…

8) But, you brush it off like a champ and move on because you know you’re fabulous anyway!

 

Francesca is a senior at Connecticut College double majoring in Biology and Italian. She is from Bethany, CT and is a huge Friends and Greys Anatomy enthusiast!
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