Thanks blueoctober. I have been keeping lots of mood charts, although I kind of switched to my own system of jotting a couple notes in my daily planner, since it has a cute little temperature and weather space...I feel like more qualitative notes on my mood are more helpful than plotting things on a chart (although that's very helpful for many, i'm sure).
I'm a bit concerned that what my psychiatrists and therapists are classifying as hypomanic would be more simply explained as "college behavior" or toxic friends, since...although I think that is something I'll have to decide with my psychiatrist. I guess I feel like everything is being explained as bipolar, when there's definitely other ways to see it. the anxiety has been a good case, that's been lumped in with the bipolar since I was diagnosed, and clearly it has not gone away...the anxiety I've experience is completely independent of my moods and has been something I've dealt with since a child.