Since high school graduation, we have all encountered someone trying to warn us about the haunting “real world,” and how different it actually is from college life. Once we get to college, however, we think we are in the real world. We make our own dinners, take care of ourselves, clean our apartments/dorms and feel like real adults, so what’s fake about that? Well, as I’m sure you’ve figured out by now, college is anything but real life. Here are 12 things that you can only get away with in college.

1. Having a negative bank account balance.

You know you’re in college when your balance is -$3.52 but you swear you had $300 last week. The worst part is that sometimes having a negative balance doesn’t even stress you out that much. I bet you’ve even compared who, out of your friends, has the least amount of money for the week.

2. Taking four separate hour-long naps.

College is all about rewards. Got out of bed today? Reward yourself with a nap. Wrote two paragraphs for that essay due at midnight? You've earned a nap. Did some laundry? Congrats! Here's a nap.

3. Barging into your neighbor's house/dorm room without knocking.

If you try this in your years after graduation serious consequences will occur. I repeat this is only acceptable in college.

4. Living on ramen for a whole week.

For under 40 cents, what's not to love?

5. Drinking in the middle of the day.

Enough said.

6. Going to the store in pajama pants.

This shouldn’t even be acceptable in college, but it happens. We’ve all been there.

7. Binge watching Netflix for an ungodly amount of time.

Telling yourself that this is the absolute last episode that you will watch, but then Netflix only gives you 15 seconds to decide if you’re going to get up and we know who always wins that war.

8. Filling up your gas tank for only $5 at a time.

Knowing perfectly well that you will probably be able to get to campus and back twice before you have to refill. Sometimes you just have work with what you have, which is $8 in your bank account.

9. Eating pizza at 3 a.m.

Have you ever wondered why pizza places around colleges stay open till 4 A.M., but close at midnight in your hometown? It's because no one should be eating half a box of pizza that late. Enjoy being able to do this without feeling sick while you can.

10. Forgetting to bathe.

Opting for the dry shower, or using anything but water to clean yourself. For some reason, you still think that using dry shampoo, loads of perfume and deodorant all over your body is the equivalent of a shower.

11. Wearing the same outfit 3 days in a row.

It’s not the same outfit if you switch it up a little each day, right? As long as it smells clean then it is clean.

12. Decorating your apartment with empty liquor bottles.

Because if there’s no evidence of alcohol in your house do you really drink?

College life is anything but a realistic representation of the "real world," so enjoy it while it lasts! As Michael Scott once said, "It's simply beyond words. It's incalculable."