In my fifth week of college, I just have one thing to say: THIS PLACE IS SO WEIRD.
When you think about going to college, you picture all-nighters, being BFFs with your roommate, tailgating, etc. What you don’t think about is all the little things that randomly happen and don’t make much sense. Here are a few of the things I’m talking about:
1. You live with a whole floor of people whom you’ve never met before yet they are supposed to be your lifelong best friends.
2. If you don’t see or talk to someone for a day or two, it feels like way longer because you aren’t used to seeing the same people 24 hours a day. A week without communication pretty much ends your friendship at this point.
3. Half of the people here are trying to find their spouse, like right now.
4. The other half are hooking up with anything that moves.
5. People “pregame” everything as if having sober social interactions are a crime.
6. Everyone acts like they have it all together, even though no one does and we are all freaking out about this place.
7. The dining hall: where you have the four things you’ll eat and if they aren’t serving any of them, have fun eating the salad you’ve eaten three times this week.
8. You actually miss your parents even though you were so excited to get away from them.
9. You can eat alone and not feel like a loser... as long as you open your laptop and pretend to do homework.
10. Instagrams are crucial so you can show all of your friends back home that you aren’t failing at the social scene. Be real, your instas aren’t for you. They’re for your haters.
11. For the first month, you’ll have the exact same conversation with about 100 different people. “What’s your name?” “Where are you from?” “What are you studying?” You’ll never talk to these people again, but you’ll smile in passing because you had that one conversation.
12. Everyone is trying to be someone they’re not for the first couple of weeks, but the fakers tend to reveal themselves.
13. People get on yikyak to say they are interested in someone instead of actually talking to that person. "To the guy in the salmon shorts and Vineyard Vines…you’re really cute, please notice me."
