The summer before your freshman year of college is a strange one. You may be nervous to leave home or excited for all the new things that await. However, despite what you’re feeling, you also have no idea what to expect! Should you rush? Is your roommate going to be weird? Will you meet your husband/wife? Will you graduate? All of these are common thoughts among us girls. Unfortunately, no one can answer them or even prepare us for what college is in fact going to bring. But alas! There are unspoken rules that every college girl lives by that may just help us figure out the answers.
1. Dressing up for class is a difficult feat and sometimes not worth it
Honestly, who wants to dress up for an 8:30am class? Especially when you know that as soon as it’s over, you’re going back to bed. Also finals. The less time you spend getting ready, the more time you can spend studying or sleeping...or crying.
2. Partying on a Wednesday is considered living life on the edge
Wine Wednesday is a thing and if you survive it AND make it to your 9 am the next morning, you are one serious stud.
3. Wearing the same shirt/bra/pair of pants/pair of socks two days in a row (sometimes three) is perfectly acceptable
Laundry is a hassle and it interrupts our watching of "Friends" on Netflix for the 5th time. Also, thank God for alternating class days.
4. Going to the cafeteria alone makes you look independent as heck and that’s cool
Who needs friends to eat with?
5. When you go out, weather no longer means anything
It may be 30 degrees but by god you’re going to wear that new crop top.
6. Nothing is secret
Girls tell their best friends everything. Whether it’s that Jack cheated on Brittany or that you have explosive diarrhea, be careful what you tell people, cause their best friend will also know. Plus, you might as well let your boyfriend know that your bff will hear about everything.
7. Going to a party alone does not happen
You cannot show up alone, it’s awkward and no one trusts a girl with no friends. If your group isn’t going, you will find someone. It doesn’t matter if it’s your suite-mate, your lab partner or your mom. You are determined.
8. Fries before guys…unless he buys them for you
Self explanatory.
9. The more t-shirts you have, the cooler you are
I don’t understand either.
10. You can’t get by without friends
Who else are you going to complain about your awful TA to? Or silently sit with while you’re both on your phones? Who else is going to tell you that Jeff sucks and isn’t worth it?
College is the time to explore your newfound freedom, but that freedom comes with a few rules.
