If you're a Meredith College woman, you know that you call a teeny-tiny liberal arts college in the heart of North Carolina your home-sweet-home, your own little slice of Wonderland. The longer you're a student at Meredith, the more you understand -- and, frankly, internalize -- the truths that come along with with being a Meredith Angel. However, you become increasingly more aware of the stereotypes and judgments that many hold beyond our back gate. Here are 25 things that come with living the life of a Meredith College woman:
1. You’re sick of non-Meredith people assuming your classes are easy.
(“Oh, you go to Meredith? So your classes are like really easy then, right?”)
2. You don’t have a problem cutting a few classes here and there, but it’s awkward when there are literally only like 6 people in one of your major classes.
*receives text message* "Hey, Dr. So-and-So wants to know if you're okay..." Oops.
3. You work hard to be in the (approximately) 30% of students who make Dean’s List each semester.
Through the good times and the times that you wanted to cry and call your mom and eat everything except what was being served in BDH, you manage to do your homework, study, and pass with flying colors.
4. You, perhaps, are in the 30% of students who have chosen to study abroad somewhere incredible (Italy, UK, Spain, Costa Rica, Iceland, or more!).
Like me! I'll be embarking on a life-changing, three-week Italian journey this May!
5. You hate when people assume you’re going to college in Raleigh to marry an engineer. (“Does your boyfriend go to State? Gotta get that MRS. degree, am I right?”)
6. You hate it even more when people assume that Meredith is just for lesbians. Get a life!
AND THIS!! Are there gay women on campus? YUP. Are there straight women on campus? YUP. Are there gay women on Earth? YUP. Are there straight women on Earth? YUP. GET OVER THIS PLEASE.
7. You fall somewhere in the midle of the Meredith College stereotype spectrum, between academically-driven “prude” and extremely social “party girl.”
(You can be both! You can be whoever you want to be!! Also, why can’t we just be viewed as “Strong Women”? I’M JUST SAYING.)
8. You pride yourself in being a Strong Woman, but you still miss being called an MCG (Meredith College Girl).
Rare as a diamond, classy as a pearl, nothing compares to a Meredith...woman. Just doesn't roll off the tongue as nicely.
9. THAT ONYX THOUGH!
Need I say more?
10. You buy every t-shirt that goes on sale in Cate.
Again...need I say more?
11. You sacrifice your homework, sleep, and sanity because Corn.
And sharing her very first Cornhuskin' with your sweet Little is the day you were born ready for and want to relive over and over again.
12. You spend your whole summer drinking anything from a can to start saving up for can art.
Scratch the lemonade stand. By the end of July you are almost ready to start paying people to drink your soda just so you can have more cans.
13. You hate Honor Council when there’s even the slightest chance of you being sent there, but you have the utmost respect for the Honor Code itself.
But you're a Meredith Angel...you would never be sent to Honor Council :)
14. You basically live for Thanksgiving in BDH during Fall semester.
BEST MEAL THERE IS. THANK THE BDH GODS FOR ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT MASHED POTATOES AND DINNER ROLLS (while supplies last #smh)
15. You jump at the opportunity to take an Onyx pic with President Jo Allen.
I have never been so lucky, but there's always the next President's Raid!! (**Picture used with owner's permission**)
16. You know the “boy hours” (er, excuse me, “open house hours”) life all too well.
And your ears perk up when you can sense a boy on the other side of campus. You just know.
17. You know you can never have too many pairs of leggings.
Should I wear my black leggings, or my black leggings? #hardlifedecisions
18. You have a love/hate relationship with time management/hygiene. 
("I haven’t showered in 3 days…do you think the girl beside me recognizes the smell of my dry shampoo?")
19. You can always count on a friend or classmate to hook you up with a tampon when you need it.
Leave any feminine hygiene awkwardness you may have once had in high school or at home because there's no need for it here!
20. You aggressively roll your eyes as you watch Wake County Public Schools close for winter weather, then NC State, then Peace, then St. Aug’s, then Shaw…but then you receive the “campus open on regular schedule” email from the Dean’s office.
Seriously...can't a girl catch a break?
21. You are literally obsessed with your Little.
(I have 4 pics of my Little in this one post alone. I am that obsessed with her.)
22. You know you aren’t just surrounded by many female classmates; you’re surrounded by sisters!
Ladies you know, many you don't, but you still love them all just the same!
23. You are never in the mood to hear this statement: “Yikes, I would hate to be at Meredith during that time of the month, since all of your cycles are probably synced up…”
See what I did there?
24. You don’t just sit around and cry watching Lifetime or "The Bachelor."
(On-campus cable had all of the ESPNs before it ever had Disney Channel. Just throwing that out there…)
25. You chose a women’s college so you’ve probably burned all of your bras and you hate men.
... *rolls eyes* (“Meredith College, home of the feminazis.”)
