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50 Things That Will Only Ever Make Sense in College

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50 Things That Will Only Ever Make Sense in College

1. When internships are your dream job.

2. Spending more money on textbooks than food.

3. Swiping a card to enter your room.

4. Greek Life.

5. Owning a frisbee.

6. Not questioning it when your friend decides to get dreadlocks.

7. When you notice the main transportation is longboards.

8. Pulling all-nighters for studying, not for sleepovers.

9. Wishing you could be 21.

10. Eating eggs and bacon as a late night snack but having pizza for breakfast.

11. Sharing a room with someone a computer system matched you with.

12. Having your best friends live on your hall.

13. When the library is your real best friend.

14. Wearing band t-shirts makes you cultured and artsy.

15. Walking in groups to get food.

16. Condensing all your property to an 8 by 10 foot space.

17. Asking your parents to send you stuff from your room at home.

18. Being able to match your schedule with your best friend's.

19. Sitting in a room of 500 people every Tuesday and Thursday.

20. Changing buildings to learn different material every hour.

21. When hacky sack seems like a plausible use of time.

22. Doing laundry on a bi-weekly basis.

23. Getting matching tattoos.

24. Getting piercings you will never tell your parents about.

25. Wearing your high school shirts to work out in.

26. Wearing your college shirts as actual outfits.

27. Considering Ramen and Starbucks to be a well-rounded meal.

28. Getting Chipotle is splurging.

29. Going home isn’t just for holidays.

30. Facebook is the main communication system.

31. Everyone you know becomes an amateur photographer.

32. You can tell what your friend did over the weekend based on Snapchat.

33. Snapchat.

34. Recruiting people to join your organization by dancing and chanting at them.

35. Going to concerts of bands you’ve never heard of just to "try it out."

36. Trying things out.

37. Staying on a friend's couch and actually getting a good night of sleep.

38. Dating someone without people expecting you to marry them.

39. Changing your living situation every 8 months.

40. Borrowing furniture.

41. When living with eight girls is reasonable.

42. Wearing business attire is just for job fairs.

43. Wearing pajamas to class.

44. Making a big deal about Spring Break.

45. Having a Spring Break.

46. Trying to figure out how to spend your summer.

47. Summer school not seeming like a bad option.

48. Asking your parents for money doesn’t seem pathetic.

49. Streaming bad quality movies seem more reasonable than paying at the theatre.

50. Spending your time reading a list about college.

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