Procrastination
Procrastination isn’t just a skill you obtain in college, procrastination becomes a lifestyle. There is no sweeter sound than a professor announcing an extension on a paper that you haven’t started. But this extension does nothing more than give you an extra week to slack on homework and wait until the night before you start the paper anyway. Procrastination causes undying stress that we claim we will never put ourselves through again but project after project procrastination nation prevails its rule.
How to Stretch Your Money
Whether is be eating peanut butter for lunch or bumming a ride of your roomie for a week, every college student becomes an expert at being broke. Having a job is nice but no minimum wage job supplies enough funds to support a college student's hobbies. From rent to bar hopping on the weekends, college students learn to prioritize and sometimes that means living off PB&J’s for three days.
Substitutes for a Wine Opener
We’ve all been there- it’s a random Tuesday, all the stress of the world is crashing down as you just failed your math test, you have a paper due at the end of the week, and you have no idea how to even start. You're in a group project that gives a new meaning to "project from Hell." The only solution is to sit down and breathe for a second. When your emergency bottle of wine catches your eye, you instantly see the silver lining. But being a broke college student, you have no wine opener. In this situation you become the creative genius your 5th grade art teacher claimed you to be. Knives, pens, tweezers, or any random household tool can serve as a great substitute. And nothing beats the feeling of accomplishment of finally opening that bottle.
Avoiding Laundry Day
Smells clean to me! …..Wait I don’t have any underwear….
The Art of Sleeping Until the Last Minute
Sleep is one of the most precious things to any college student so there is no messing around when it comes to making the most of every sleep possibility. Calculating the exact time from your bed to your classroom seat is a highly useful formula that is never taught in any math lecture. If walk time is seven minutes and dress time is three minutes and class starts at 8, if you wake up at 7:45 you even have time to grab a granola bar! If a college kid tells you that they don't use a golden mathematical formula every night when setting their alarm, they are lying.
The Proper Way to Binge Watch a Netflix Series
Let’s be real, there is no wrong way to binge watch anything on Netflix. But the ability a college student has to sit and watch an entire series in a day exponentially increases the longer you are in school. At graduation, you not only get your diploma, you get certified in your Netflix watching abilities (and totally make the thousands of dollars spent on an education worth it, right?).
Movies in College Classes Suck
The best day in any high school class was when the teacher announced you were going to be watching a movie. But when you're in college, you have to get up and walk to the other side of campus just to sit for 50 minutes and sit through a video that you have no intention of paying attention to. I mean doing that is better than lecturing, but the feeling that you could be doing this in your bed still is a thought lingering in the back of your head the whole class time (because college kids are lazy, did I forget to mention that?)
You Are Lazier Than You Thought You Were
In the midst of school work, social lives, and sleep, the hours in the day always seem to shrink so if you can find a way to cut a corner, you will find it and use it. The best part of it is that instead of getting judged, your fellow college peers praise your ability to find the lazy route and will happily adapt that habit if they find it successful as well.
Who Your Friends Are
As cliché and sad this statement is, you truly do find out who your friends are in college. You may realize that your clique from high school was just close because you saw each other five days a week or your once seemingly perfect roommate is not who you thought they were at all. The rollercoaster of trying to maintain old relationships, build new ones, and transition to a new stage in life really opens your eyes to who you want to surround yourself with. Celebrate the friendships that last, remember the ones that fade, and always be open to new opportunities.
You Get Out What You Put In
Ever since we were started school, teachers have preached that putting in the time will always result in the best grades. But in college you realize that this transfers to every aspect of life. The best friendships are the ones you make extra time for, the most fun student organizations are the groups you become fully involved in, and the best tailgates are the ones that you paint your face for. Whatever you decide to do with your time in college, you learn that picking what you want to do and committing entirely to whatever you decide will always give you the best outcome.
