Being an honors student is the best sometimes, despite the added stress and difficulty of honors classes. When you go home for the holidays, you can impress your relatives when you tell them what you're majoring in, and you've finally found a community of people who understand you better than many of your friends in high school could. Here are 11 signs you're an honors student at UT.
1. You came into college too confident.
You either aced high school without even trying or you aced high school through your superior time-management skills and self-discipline. Either way, you entered college supremely confident in your ability to do all your homework at 2 a.m. and still get an A, or your ability to spend 10 hours studying for a single test in order to get an A.
2. College has humbled you.
Apparently, writing your philosophy paper at 2 a.m. and expecting an A does not work anymore. Or maybe you found out you actually don't possess the ability to focus on something really boring for 10 hours when you're in the library with your friends. Either way, college has taught you that the expectations are far higher than they used to be.
3. You procrastinate. A lot.
If procrastination was an Olympic sport, you would have six gold medals.
4. You're a pro at "winging it."
You definitely are not prepared for this class discussion, but you're going to try saying something intelligent-sounding anyway and hope your professor can't tell.
5. You live/have lived in the honors quad or you spend a lot of time there.
You either live there, have class there, go to events there or visit friends there. Either way, the quad did or still does play a significant role in your life.
6. You have friends who will proofread your papers or help you with homework no matter the time of day or night.
Yours honors friends won't judge you for procrastinating so much and they understand why YOU ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO GET THIS PROJECT DONE TONIGHT. Honors friends are there for you.
7. You live for the weekends.
While this is true of every college student, honors students especially live for the weekends as those 48 hours are our only hope at getting a gasp of air while we're drowning under piles of work.
8. You have a special place on campus you can go to for cookies and encouragement.
Your honors program’s office is always there for you, and is usually stocked with cookies and people who understand your struggles.
9. You’ve been accused of being a snob before. (But only by people who don’t know you.)
It's probably happened to you on social media of some kind. "Pretentious," "snobby" and "elitist" are the types of phrases you've seen thrown around about your program on apps like Yik Yak.
10. You love your fellow honors students.
Whether it's your BFF or someone in one of your classes you've never even spoken to, there's a sense of camaraderie in the honors community that you love. Everyone is so cool and scarily intelligent, you can't help but love them.
11. No matter what you're like on the outside, you’re still a giant nerd at heart.
Yes, school is really stressful and super hard, but you love learning and you get excited to go to class and learn sometimes. You'd never tell anybody this, but sometimes studying is fun.
