1. Real school pride.
There is no feeling like walking around and hearing one guy yell GO GREEN as hundreds of others don't even think twice as they yell GO WHITE.
2. The beauty of caffeine.
How could something as simple as a cup of coffee be so beautiful?
3. What it's like to have 148 sisters.
148 sisters, all there for each other any time of any day. We laugh, we cry, and we know how to have fun. 148 sisters is a lot, but I wouldn't want to have one less.
4. The control money has on your life.
Money is sacred in college. You become greedy when it comes to your money, and you finally realize that money controls us.
5. What it's like to live with your best friend.
Living with someone brings you to a whole new level of friendship. By the end of the first semester, you will find that you are so comfortable with each other that you'll walk around in your underwear and do weird things, like talk to each other in your sleep.
6. Home sickness.
Within the first month of college, you'll miss something about home, even if it's just your dog. You may be convinced that you won't get homesick, but it will hit you when you least expect it: studying for finals, laying in bed with the flu, or when your hair falls out because your shower water is filled with iron.
7. The goosebumps you get when the football team comes out, and the whole crowd erupts in cheer.
There is nothing like watching your team run out of the smoke and not even being able to hear your own screaming, because the stadium is so loud.
8. What it feels like to fall off of a bike.
It's a moment of shock and complete embarrassment, but so many embarrassing things happen your freshman year that you learn to just laugh it off.
9. A frat party.
All I really have to say is that it's actually like the movies (maybe not this one though).
10. What it's like to be able to just start over.
When you go to college, you have the freedom to start over and be whoever you want to be. Until you realize how hard it is, because you are who you are.
11. How hard it is to be away from your best friends
Whether they're a 20 minute drive or across the country, when your best friend isn't at the same college as you, you miss them.
12. Having to ask a boy to an event.
If you rock the single life like me, you'll have this issue. I love date parties and formals, but I hate having to find a date. Now I feel bad for guys who always have to make the first move, because it sucks.
13. Getting lost in the sketchy town outside of campus.
Getting lost is one of my many skills, but when it's 8 at night and the stores around you have broken windows and ripped up floors, it can be a little scary.
14. What it's like to live without your parents.
Coming home at 3 in the morning and not having to worry about an endless amount of "where have you been" questions is pretty great. And being able to have two desserts just because.
15. Pulling an all-nighter.
The dreaded nights that make you reconsider going to college. Sometimes it gets to the point where you make a list of the pros and cons of dropping out.
16. Living in a room the size of your closet at home.
You realize that you own way too much useless crap. And when your side of the room is a mess, so is your roommate's, because there really isn't room enough to have two separate sides.
17. The beauty of Netflix.
Enough said....
18. The Freshman 15.
You pay 80 dollars for a gym membership and never go. You also walk by the salad bar in the cafeteria just to get to the ice cream.
19. Real stress
When high school seniors tweet about being stressed, I want to throw my books at them. That is not stress. Stress is when your brain actually aches and basically shuts down for a few minutes, just so it can reboot.
20. The feeling of letting yourself go.
Sweatpants, leggings, pony tails, and crew necks, were my closet for a while. You're either so confident that you just don't care, or your so self-conscious that you've given up.
21. Trying to figure out what I'm doing with my life.
One day you'll be sitting around and you'll realize that you have less than 4 years to get your life together, because the real world is coming. Then you'll start second guessing your major and wondering where you're going to live, who you're going to marry, what your kids' names will be...it's a never-ending cycle.
