This is definitely what would happen.

Pretty normal. Sole wear is probably the last indicator one has of shoes that are done.

You can still use the ones you decommissioned, but twice or more a year is a pretty normal replacement interval for daily drivers when you are on your feet all day. Your body will thank you.

I use my decommissioned work shoes for things like painting, or yard work, or pouring cement when I know my shoes are going to be destroyed and that is okay.

As soon as they start to squeak, consider replacing. New insoles are good but shoes are, by and large, built to walk about 500 average miles. That is the lifespan before the inner workings that support the body and keep everything in line up to your nose start to break down.

Once you hit 500 miles in a pair of working shoes, it's time to get another pair. They are toast from the inside, out. Keen is especially true on that.

The difference between a work show and a hiking boot or running shoe or even a croc is what type of terrain and slope the 500 miles was over. That is all. They are pretty much all built for 500 miles.

Not 500 more. Just in case you were curious.

It's also good to pay money for anything that goes between you and the ground. Chairs, beds, shoes. They all protect your body from being destroyed passively while you do your thing.

Buy proper and regular for all three. Pay the money. You only get one body. Take care of it.

OH MY GOD take the car.

My grandparents gifted me a car *a new one* after college because I paid my way through college. That car lasted 15 years of reliable transportation during my most tenuous earning years. I never had to worry about my car getting me to or from whatever job I had, because it was new and reliable and awesome. It was fuel efficient and I could count on it to do what I needed it to do.

If they're paying for you to live in the dorms for four years, live in the dorms. They are fine. They are fantastic. They are where networking happens and people have great conversations at 4am over pizza and studying for finals. Dorms are just fine. Meal plan is paid for and you don't have to worry about feeding yourself. Take. The. Dorms.

I loved living in the dorms because I didn't have to worry about anything. Once I moved into a house with roomies things became so much more complicated and expensive in both time and money. The dorms are fantastic if your parents will pay for it. That's the dream.

If you can get a single in a pod of rooms, that'd be awesome. Do that.

Good luck. Take the car and live in the dorms.

Omg. Paint me like one of your french girls indeed!

Wow. How has someone not labeled Percy as the Meownager or the Supurrvisor on duty?!

Oh! I didn't go on anything that is scheduled. I started straterra five weeks ago and hoped it would help before I went down that road.

It is helping and I am so, so glad.

Hahaha. Saaaaaame. My meds are helping so, so much. Digging out of the piles of crap that have accumulated in my life is actually happening.

Right?! That last one about doing all the little things was a goddamn gut punch, and not in a good way.

That is literally one of the key symptoms of ADHD and depressions. Molehills to the neurotypicals may as well be the road to sauron.

Oh... And for women, ADHD looks totally different so we are being diagnosed so much later in life... It is a near epidemic for us at this point between 37 and 45 or so.

Wow. Way to shame ADHD and/or depression that is unrecognized and unmedicated.

Once I got on medication, all these things were totally doable. Before that, this list would be enough to keep me in bed.