Let's face it, "Mean Girls" got it right about the groups in high school; you have the ever popular plastics, the nerds, the jocks, and the Janis Ians of the world. But when you walked onto your college campus the first day of freshman year those distinctions transformed into the athletes and the non-athletic regular people, NARPS for short. As much as we can try the differences between the athletes and the NARPS stick out to EVERYONE

1. You are envious over all the clothes that the athletes get.

With being a college athlete it is like Christmas morning when the school year comes around. The college pretty much supplies them with a whole new wardrobe, from hats, shoes, shirts, pants, and down to a winter coat to last them through the year. As much as us NARPS hate to admit it, we are forever envious of the free clothes.

2. A coffee cup is more likely than a water bottle.

College students rely on coffee to get us through the day or our next fifty minute class until they can go nap. Somehow, someway though you see more athletes with the classic Gatorade water bottle than the ever loving coffee cup.

3. We have no excuse to skip class.

Professors are flexible when it comes to the sports schedule of athletes, they did not make the schedule, but the athlete is a part of the team and must be there. NARPS do not have that excuse, if we are not in class because we would rather stay with the love of our life, our beds, than go to class we have no legitimate excuse.

4. "Wait you know about sports?"

Yes, hate to break it to you athletes but just because we do not play the sport on a daily basis does not mean we do not know what we are talking about.

5. We live in a house, just a plain old house.

When athletes live in a specific house it turns into the "lax house," "soccer house," "hockey house," hate to be the bearer of bad news but there is no such thing as a "NARP house."

6. We reminisce about our high school athletic days.

Oh the glory days, the days we were the big man on campus. It is okay to admit that we all miss the days we were an athlete. Since only a small percentage of high school athletes make it to the college level, we like to remember the glory days of high school athletics by talking about the past and managing to squeeze in our high school athletic apparel.

7. "Oh, I'm..."

As NARPS we do not get to have the luxury of everyone knowing our name. It is not scattered across posters, clothes, or rosters so someone not knowing who we are is not shocking whatsoever.

8. We are the athletes biggest fan.

We may not be able to be on the team but we are able to be in the stands. We go and cheer on our college team with pride because those people out on the court, field, ice, or in the pool......they made it.