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College Explained By 'Friends'

Part one of a five part installment!

College Explained By 'Friends'

So, It took me about a billion years to start watching friends, but I finally did, and I'm finding myself recommending it to literally everyone. Yes, yes, I know. I'm so late. The show is so relevant to our age group, there are countless reasons on how it relates to us, and i'm just going to list a few from the first few seasons i've seen. (This is probably a five part thing, who knows)

1. Rachel really needed money, but wanted to make herself seem independent to her father.

..and then she really regretted it.

Moral of the story: As a college student, NEVER turn down money.

2. We thought Senior year of high school was the real world. I mean, we could drive, we were eighteen, the world was our oyster!

We were wayyy wrong. Now we have to pay for everything. We don't get to live home with our parents rent free, and we actually have to pay for laundry. What a sin. The real world definitely starts here, right?

3. College can be a time of extreme happiness.. or just another period of time where..well

That's just the sleep deprivation talking.

4. There is always that person in every class who aces everything effortlessly, while you do everything short of selling your soul JUST to get that 87.

This is for you.


5. Sleep deprivation. We've all been there. It leads us to say weird things.
6. Sometimes you think things are going well, you think everything is going to be okay, and that you might get a halfway decent GPA this semester, and it turns out you've never been so wrong.

7. When you've set your room to a certain temperature, and then have to leave for any reason, as soon as you open the door...

8. When someone tells you you're going to do good on that midterm you've been breaking your neck over...

They're totally lying, you've resigned yourself to the fact that you're going to fail.

9. There's always a cute guy in your english class, and you don't know his name, so it only seems fair to refer to him as James Bond right?

10. It's inevitable that there will be at least one nice day right before you have an exam, and you have to convince yourself to stay in and study.

11. We all have bad days. Any day that we get a less than stellar grade on an assignment is a bad day, and then we get melodramatic.

12. Because, why not laugh instead of hyperventilate because of missing a deadline?

13. There's that one friend out there who always lets you copy the homework when you forgot there was work due...

14. When you break something, and you immediately look at your roommate like..

15. When there is a choice of another night of Microwave meals or going out to eat, there will always be a winner..

These gifs are NOT mine. Credit to fyeahfriendsgifs on tumblr.

[College explained by seasons three and four of Friends will be next week! Keep an eye out.]



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