10 Struggles Of Dating Other College Students
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10 Struggles Of Dating Other College Students

Being in a relationship is hard enough, but both being in college is even worse!

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10 Struggles Of Dating Other College Students
Serena Anderson

Having a relationship in high school was so easy; walking to and from classes together, eating lunch together and going to the movies every weekend! However, once you start college, relationships change and are not as easy. During the week, all free time is used to study or work and the weekends are used for the same thing! If you choose to risk attempting a relationship in college, there are many struggles relationships face.

1. Classes clash

Going to college with your partner may seem like unicorns and roses, but that cute idea of coordinating classes is a dream! Classes are offered at different times and different days, so while one is in class, the other isn’t. Also, classes are offered all throughout the campus, so most of the time, if your majors are different, so are the buildings your classes will be in.

2. Never seeing each other in between classes.

Most college campuses are huge! It is a twenty-minute walk from one end to the other, with hundreds of people in-between. Seeing each other is rare and if you happen to walk past each other, you most likely don’t happen to notice. It isn’t like high school, where you hold hands down the hallways and carry each other’s books.

3. Different study groups.

If you have a different major than your partner, then your friends and study groups will be different. In college, your study group is like your family and you spend 24/7 with them. Then, a little jealousy happens because of the amount of time spent away from each other and with other people.

4. Conversations are only rants.

When you are able to spend time with your partner, it is always about the same thing! Rants about homework, exams, or professors. It is just a big complaining fest and you try to compete with each other on whose professor is worse and who had the harder exam.

5. Worrying about each other.

Your partner’s future will also decide your own future. So making sure your partner passes and does well in their classes is a major stress. You nag them to study while they nag you to study!

6. No time for alone time.


Alone time? What’s that?! If you have two seconds to spare, it is because you are forgetting to study or some homework! The few moments you chill out with your partner to watch Netflix, it is timed and after ten minutes, it is back to school work. Sometimes you are able to sneak a few moments of alone time in secluded corners!

7. No time or money for dates.

Class and studying takes up every second of your life while in college. It also takes all your money! There is no money to go out nor is there time. Most “dates” are running to an on campus restaurant, eating on the run, and then back to the library.

8. Summer school.

During the school year, you dream with your partner about the great summer you guys will have, whether it's going to the beach or zoo, or just hanging out and having a bonfire. The beautiful weather you guys dream about during the nasty winter is just that, a dream. Summer is filled with summer classes or working to pay for classes, but hey, you guys can also look at pictures of the beach!

9. After school jobs.

Once you get out of class, after you spend hours studying, then it is time to work. Trying to make sure you have the correct days requested off but have enough hours in to pay some bills, there is just no time for a partner.

10. Weekends go separate ways.

During the week, it's all about classes. Then on the weekends, it's all about studying for the next week full of classes. However, you have your family that rarely sees you, so somehow you have to make time with them. You end up choosing between finishing homework, seeing your partner, or spending time with your family.

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