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42 Bad Things That Happen To College Students

College sucks sometimes.

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42 Bad Things That Happen To College Students

It's no secret that college isn't easy. Between academics, extracurriculars, and friends, there are a lot of things that could go wrong.

1. Getting a bad registration time.

2. When the dining halls have icky food.

3. Dining hall food in general.

4. Having 2 or more tests on the same day.

5. Getting caught snapchatting in class.

6. Pop quizzes.

7. Midterms week.

8. Getting sick without anyone to take care of you.

9. Freshmen dorms.

10. Being hungry when the dining halls aren't open.

11. Living across the hall from the RA.

12. Buying a book that you didn't need to.

13. Communal bathrooms.

14. Writing annotated bibliographies.

15. Any lab that's over 3 hours long.

16. Getting a shitty advisor.

17. Losing your planner.

18. Seeing one of the campus squirrels get hit by a car.

19. Finals week.

20. Group projects.

21. Forgetting your toothbrush at home.

22. Not knowing where you are when you wake up.

23. When your pet goldfish dies.

24. Running out of ramen.

25. Sitting behind a super tall person in class.

26. Unknowingly picking a terrible lab partner.

27. When a professor dislikes you for no apparent reason.

28. Realizing you don't like your major.

29. The last day of any break.

30. Almost getting hit by anyone riding a scooter on campus.

31. Forgetting your calculator.

32. When your phone dies in the middle of a really boring lecture.

33. Walking out an exam knowing did awful.

34. Getting an exam back and seeing you did worse than you thought.

35. Having to listen to the same music as your neighbors because the walls are thin.

36. Taking a sip of a water bottle and realizing it's not water.

37. Not waking up to your alarm.

38. Deciding what to be for Halloween.

39. Reading the wrong chapters and not knowing until you walk into class.

40. When someone doesn't say hi back to you.

41. Roommates who eat your leftovers

42. Losing a sock while doing laundry

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