1. They try to put their regular meal on the salad scale.

Most colleges have a scale that the students use to weigh their salads and cereal to determine how much it costs. A freshman will put their pasta or sandwiches on the scale and awkwardly take it off when the cashier gives them side eyes.

2. They have over $1000 on their meal card.

The person is a freshman if you can see their current balance and it is an absurd amount of money that will last pretty much the entire year.

3. They try to make friends in a 300-person lecture.

People don’t look to make friends in a general class. So if someone sits next to you and starts asking your life story, they’re a freshman.

4. They are traveling in groups bigger than 6.

A freshman begins the year best friends with their entire dorm floor, or at least 15 of them. But after about a month, they find the six to 10 people they like and are only seen with a few of them at a time.

5. They are wearing dresses and full makeup to an 8 a.m. class.

Nobody will be able to keep this up and freshman are the only ones who think they can.

6. They are voluntarily taking an 8 a.m. class.

No upperclassmen will sign up for an 8 am unless it is the only way they can graduate on time.

7. They are looking up where their dorm is located.

You can see a freshman wondering around with their phone out, you can assume they are staring at the campus map to find their way home.

8. They arrive over 30 mins early to everything.

Most likely the freshmen will arrive to class well before the professor even does, they cannot risk being late.

9. They never eat food alone.

Those first weeks are the first time they’ve had to eat without someone else in a public place and they do not care who is sitting next to them, as long as they are not alone.

10. They go out to frat parties.

The only people other than frat guys seen on frat row are freshman who think that's their only choice.

11. They ask upperclassmen to buy them alcohol.

Self-explanatory, they have no idea how to find it.

12. They’re hanging out with every kid from their high school.

The perfect safety net is the few kids who they graduated with. They don’t really like each other and it is pretty obvious that they will not be college besties.

13. They’re wearing their t-shirts from orientation.

T-shirts, water bottles, bags, and everything in between. If it was free to freshmen, they’re all showing it off.