THE FIRST REALIZATIONS THAT YOU'RE NOT IN COLLEGE ANYMORE

**You're waking up at 6 am instead of going to bed.

 **Beers at lunch get you reprimanded.

 **College sweatshirts are 'casual' instead of dress up.

 **Your parents charge rent.

 **The four food groups are no longer beer, pizza, chips and cereal.

 **It's 'getting late' when it's 9:30 p.m.

 **Three words:  Student Loan Payments.

 **You make thousands of dollars a year - and still can't afford that dream Porsche.

 **You start eyeing the Light Beer Section appreciatively.

 **Pickup football games mean that at least one person will be in the
  hospital by game's end.

 **Talking with your friends: THEN: GPA's, spring break plans, and tonsil hockey; NOW:  mutual funds, interest rates, and wedding plans.

 **Sleeping on the couch is a no-no.

 **Naps are no longer available between noon and 6 p.m.

 **Sneakers are now 'weekend shoes'.

 **Dinner and a movie - The whole date instead of the beginning of one.

 **Pregnancy now brings thought of tax deductions instead of
 coronaries.

 **Jack and Cokes become Dewers on the Rocks.

 **The only drugs you take are Tums and Tylenol.

 **The weak single you hit in the intramural softball game is now remembered as a Varsity dinger for the League Championship.

 **You get your news from sources other than USA Today, ESPN Sportscenter, and MTV News.

 **Random hook-ups are no longer socially acceptable.

 **You wear more ties in a week than you even owned while taking in college.

 **You find yourself reminiscing fondly of 2-hour Calculus exams.

 **You empathize with the characters from 'Friends.'

 **METABOLISM SLOWDOWN

 **Wine appreciation expands beyond Boone's and Mad Dog.

 **You actually eat breakfast foods at breakfast time.

 **Grocery lists actually contain relatively healthy food.

 **When drinking, you say at least once per night, 'I just can't put it down
     the same as I used to.'

 **Over 90% of the time you spend in front of a computer  is for real work,
     not video games.

 **You're actually willing to pay a bit more to drink in a bar that's not full
     of '21-year-old kids.'

 **Golf is beginning to seem a lot less silly.
   

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