When people think college, they think huge universities with Greek life, football games, and 300-person lecture hall classes. But there's another side to the spectrum. Granted the spectrum is a tad skewed toward the main state schools as publicized by movies and television, let us not forget about the little guys - the tucked away private colleges that are home to a few thousand dedicated, happy students. These kids know their way around their bite-sized campus quite well and love the cozy atmosphere, but with this comes some quirks that are somewhat strange to the outside, mainstream world.
Here are some ordinary things you do as a small private school student that are pretty out of the ordinary to everyone else:
1. You rarely have to text your friends asking where they are in the dining hall - just take a quick look around and you’ll find them. Probably in your regular seats.
2. Speaking of dining halls, you have no problem leaving your backpack, laptop, phone, etc. on your table while you go up and get food. No one’s going to take it. Even if they try, they'll be easy to spot leaving through the one entrance that doubles as an exit.
3. When you say you’re going to the library, no one asks you, “Which one?”
4. You really do know everyone in your classes, as you should, since you don’t have to learn more than 25 names, each.
5. Getting close with your professors is a regular thing. You’ve probably gotten coffee with at least one. Or brought coffee to at least twelve.
6. You have to deal with the surprised faces of your friends from home when you say there’s no chain food on your campus. I mean, you have a smattering of cafes that brew Starbucks, so what's the difference?
7. You don’t bat an eye at the quarterback being in your statistics class. If, you know, you even have a football team.
8. You hear about every event happening on campus, and you feel somewhat obliged to go to them because chances are you know someone who is a part of that club/organization.
9. You’ve awkwardly stood there silently while your friends at home swap tailgating stories.
10. You’re probably a tad embarrassed by your mascot, although on the outside, you act insanely proud of whatever it is.
11. Your snap story rarely involves a celebrity or politician speaking at your school.
12. You constantly have to tell people where your school is, probably in relation to a larger school.
13. You constantly have to tell people that your school does, in fact, exist and isn’t some other school they’ve heard of that sounds similar.
