Besides all the crazy adventures that come with one’s first year of college, a freshman college dorm floor is an adventure in itself. You go from from living for 18 years in your own room in a house with people you have know all your life to living with 60 random strangers in a new place, unsure of where they came from or who they are.

Your freshman dorm floor plays a major role in your freshman year experience, whether you have a crazy roommate and will live to tell your friends down the road about your horror stories, or whether you meet the best friends that you will ever have. There is no telling what types of people you’ll be surprised with or what types of crazy things you will run into, but I can warn you about the 18 things I am sure will happen in your freshman dorm floor.

1. During your first week of school, you’ll hang out with people on your floor because you don’t know anyone else.

Only to move on in three weeks when you make your own friends and barely hang out with them anymore.

2. You will get in the elevator with someone, realize they have pushed the button to your floor, look up, and realize you have never seen this human in your life.

You will wonder how many other people on your floor are in hiding.

3. You will walk into the community bathroom to see a mysterious substance.

Unsure of what species it came from, it will probably makes you want to vomit and question what kind of person leaves that for the world to see.

4. You will appreciate showers so much more when you don’t have to wear shower shoes.

5. You will set something on fire in the microwave.

You'll quickly learn how to fan the smoke away from the smoke detectors while crossing your fingers and hoping that the fire alarm doesn’t go off.

6. You will share a strange, strong connection with each and every person on your floor.

...during the bonding experience that comes after said fire alarm is set off.

7. You will begin forming cliques in your floor with people who don’t understand the strange dynamics of the other floor cliques.

8. You will see a floor mate at a party.

You'll decide it’s a good idea to have your first interaction with your floor mate when you are wasted, totally butcher their name when you talk to them, and then make things seven times more awkward when you see them again.

9. You will start to become really creative with how to make your dorm pregames up to par in the small box you call your dorm room.

Best way to get the party going is with your Monster SuperStar BackFloat , a waterproof, bluetooth, floating speaker; meaning you can pour -cough- soda -cough- on it all day long and Lana Del Ray will still be killing it.

10. You will see a floor mate come home, totally hammered, and think to yourself “You?!”

11. You will be studying in the lounge and people become as loud and distracting as physically possible.

When this happens, grab your Monster ClarityHD headphones block out the babbling idiots and get back in your groove with the help of some solid tunes.

12. Other people will be studying in the lounge and you become as loud and distracting as physically possible.

13. You will suddenly notice the “floor-cest” going on throughout the year as two of your floor mates start seriously dating.

14. You will suddenly notice the “floor-cest 2.0” when two of your floor mates hook up but pretend it never happened.

15. You will see or be the person that gets locked out of their room in nothing but a towel on the way back from the shower.

16. You will turn off the lights and pretend that no one is home when the Resident Assistant knocks on your door to remind you about the floor meetings or to write you up for being too loud.

17. You will learn new music from the people showering next to you, because you don’t want to be rude and play your music over theirs.

18. You will make some of the best friends you will ever have by bonding over the monstrosity of the freshman college dorm.

Every freshman dorm floor is different, and everyone has a different experience. But one thing’s for sure, you will never forget the things that happen or the people you meet. And as crazy as it may seem at times, you will miss living with those 60 strangers that made your freshman year truly unforgettable.