As a freshman, it seems like everyone has a title again. The jocks, the plastics, the nerds. The mean girl cliché makes way more sense than we acknowledge. At least we can all get along with each other and be friends here.

Anyway, if I were to classify myself into one of these categories my title would be 'hippie' or 'flower child' or something along those lines. My old roommates called me a hippie girl and my new roommate calls my wardrobe 'boho.' I take all these things as a compliment.

Being the boho hippie flower child I am, there are some weird things I believe in. I always read my horoscope and think "wow how can someone get me so well!" I also read my best friends horoscopes and dissect them all.

I always make a wish when I catch the clock at 11:11. Not only do I wish, but I squish my face together and try to project my wish into the universe in hopes that it will really come true. There are countless other superstitions that I believe in and wanted to share in hopes that other people will take them up. Let's bring some good into the world the easiest, and weirdest, way we can!

1. 11:11 wishes

I already mentioned this one but there's so much more behind it than just catching the time and thinking up a wish like "I hope Johnny from Sigma Kappa Alpha Apple Pie likes me back!" No. You have to choose a wish, and keep wishing it until it comes true. This can be a long process but I believe it is the only way it'll work. I've had this method produce results before too. Selfless wishes work better, too. Making a wish for someone else makes the universe more inclined to grant it to you, duh. I also believe you can never ever tell anyone what your wish was, even after it comes true. The one time I did this, my wish was undone the next day.

2. Railroad tracks

This one is slightly less known to the general public. I've had to educate a few people myself. All you have to do is pick up your feet from touching the car floor when you pass over railroad tracks. I can do this one absent mindedly now, it's like a trigger.

3. Holding your breath through a cemetery

I haven't abided by this superstition much until recently when I was challenged by a friend to try to hold my breath past the longest cemetery ever. I did it and I felt like it was a good call, after all, was said and done, so onto the list it goes.

4. Sidewalk cracks

Some days this is unrealistic, but others there is just no way I'll sacrifice stepping on a crack just to be quicker. I don't think that not stepping about cracks is all about your mothers back, but I think it's bad luck to step on them if you notice what you're doing. See, if I look down while I'm walking and think about the crack I just stepped on then I have to avoid them for the rest of the walk. I've developed a tactic around campus in all the different types of sidewalk cracks too. On the streets of West Chester though, you basically have to walk in the grass.

5. Breaking a mirror

This is the truest type of bad luck. Earlier this year I broke a mirror and had the worst few weeks of bad luck that I've ever had. Whenever I see a poor soul on Snapchat or Instagram with a broken mirror I feel bad for what they'll have to endure. The saying is that you'll be cursed for seven years, but I'm hoping all the superstitious things I did for good luck have balanced this out because it seems things have turned up since then. Unless this is a long-term game and I just don't see the effects yet... haha.. ha....

6. Lucky tokens

Everyone has something they consider lucky, and if you don't I'm surprised you've read this far in my article. My object of choice happens to be bracelets. I'll never take them off, and when I do I feel uncomfortable. Bracelets also break pretty easily after all the wear and tear of showering and pulling them around, so when they break it's like an extra burst of good luck.

7. Black cats (kind of)

I don't think black cats are bad luck like everyone else. Every black cat I've ever met are very unique. They sneak around and can disappear without a trace and then reappear like nothing happened, like Perry the Platypus. They're witches in cat form I swear and they are 100% smarter than us. Maybe then can travel time or dimensions, but something is up with black cats.

I hope my knowledge (or opinion, but tomato tamoto) of superstitions will serve you well and hopefully you can get some good luck for yourself and your friends and you're friend's friends! Just, whatever you do, avoid broken mirrors!