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50 Lies You Tell Yourself in Order to Survive Until Graduation
- I will wake up early to do my readings before class tomorrow
- I do not turn into one of those scared dog memes when I hear a male voice on campus
- Next week I will really start to get my life together
- College is actually the worst, I’m dropping out
- I’m going to fail this test anyway so I might as well give up now
- Next year I am going to have a better work-life balance
- Wellesley is the reason I am so stressed all the time, once I graduate it will get better
- That would have been an A if it weren’t for grade deflation
- I’ve got class tomorrow so I’m not getting hammered
- Just one more episode … …
- The ideal outcome would really be to get a sugar daddy/mama or just be a trophy wife
- I can totally be just as productive studying in Starbucks
- I’m not addicted to coffee, I just like the taste
- Buying bubble tea will fix all my problems
- Yeah, this sentence makes sense
- Yeah, this essay makes sense
- Just four more years and then I’m done, no grad school for me
- These first years are so much worse than we were
- It’s not that cold
- I’m just really focused on my career right now, that’s why I’m not dating
- Thesis-ing cannot actually kill me
- I’m one of those “sleepless elites” you hear about all the time
- *Selects “going” for a Facebook event* I will definitely go to this!
- I’m deleting Tinder, for real this time
- I’m deleting Bumble, for real this time
- This probably won’t be on the midterm
- We won’t get asbestos from the tunnels
- My C – oStar said that this week would be trying, that’s why everything is such a disaster right now
- If I throw myself I front of a snow plow there are only two possible outcomes: either I get my diploma early or we get a snow day
- I’m not going to cry today
- Downtime is overrated
- Grad schools won’t care if I take my entire semester credit/non
- Flirting by sending a g-cal invite is okay
- I’m not afraid of geese
- 32 degrees is shorts weather
- I can totally go out two nights in a row
- If I don’t make eye contact, there’s no way I will get cold called
- My prof won’t notice if I adjust the margins just a bit
- I will never again be complicit in capitalism
- I would 100 percent survive The Hunger Games
- I would never marry a Harvard kid
- Econ majors aren’t the Regina George of Wellesley
- The scenery here is enough to compensate for slowly succumbing to insanity
- I totally understand everything you just said
- Laptop stickers are an acceptable substitute for a personality
- My flirting techniques have evolved since middle school
- The Bachelor doesn’t set women back 50 years
- I don’t rely on Google Groups for gossip
- Canada Goose jackets are fashionable
- Graduation won’t be cancelled
Amanda Stone | Jul 15, 2020 at 2:58 am
Everything about “tomorrow, next week, from next semester” is so true!! In fact, this is not a lie to oneself, but an intention that is not fulfilled due to lack of will power.
In any case, the graduation will take place sooner or later, and afterward we will be happy that we have coped with it!