• Your salary is less than your tuition.
• Your potted plants stay alive.
• Shacking in a twin-sized bed seems absurd.
• You keep more food than beer in the fridge.
• You have to pay your own credit card bill.
• You haven't seen a soap opera in over a year.
• 8:00a.m. is not early.
• You have to file for your own taxes.
• You hear your favorite song on the elevator at work.
• You're not carded anymore.
• You carry an umbrella.
• Your friends marry and divorce instead of hook-up and break-up.
• You start watching the weather channel.
• Jeans and baseball caps aren't staples in your wardrobe.
• You can no longer take shots, and smoking gives you a sinus attack.
• You go from 130 days of vacation time to 7.
• You stop confusing 401K plan with 10K run.
• You go to parties that the police don't raid.
• Adults feel comfortable telling jokes about sex in front of you.
• You don't know what time Wendy's closes anymore.
• Your car insurance goes down.
• You refer to college students as kids.
• You drink wine, scotch and martinis instead of beer, bourbon,and rum.
• Your parents start making casual remarks about grandchildren.
• You feed your dog Science Diet instead of Taco Bell.
• You're waking up at 6 am instead of going to bed
• College sweatshirts are 'casual' instead of dress up.
• Sleeping on the couch is a no-no.
• THEN: discussing with your friends: GPA's, spring break plans,and tonsil hockey NOW: mutual funds, interest rates, and wedding plans
• Naps are no longer available between noon and 6 p.m.
• Dinner and a movie -The whole date instead of the beginning of one.
• You get your news from sources other than USA Today, ESPN Sportscenter and MTV News.
• You find yourself reminiscing fondly of 2-hour Calculus exams.
• 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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