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College As Told By "Parks And Recreation"

Sometimes college can be a real pain in the ass, but others it's the best time of your life.

Gabrielle Schwab
May 09, 2016
Seton Hall University
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College As Told By "Parks And Recreation"
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Sometimes college can get rough. There's sickness, finals, and a lack of money. Other times, it's the best time of your life. "Parks and Recreation" seems to know just how college students feel.

1. Dealing with the stress of starting a new school, and making new friends, and work...

2. Finally adjusting into the new free adult lifestyle of college and realizing it isn't what you thought

3. Getting sick for the first time away from home and grudgingly walking into class like

4. Then realizing that alcohol can solve any of your problems

5. Sometimes drinking a little too much and ending up like this

6. Waking up the morning after and swearing alcohol is the devil

7. Experiencing your first class hungover and scaring off everyone with your miserable mood

...just hungover.

8. Dining at the school cafeteria and ultimately sacrificing your stomach health

9. Finally finding a good off campus spot to eat and enjoying every last bite like this

or this..

or especially this..

10. Eating to the point where the freshman 15 starts to get to you, making you work out, frustrated, and sweaty

11. Yet, you still choose to eat with this thought in the back of your head

12. Going crazy during midterm and final weeks and writing essays on a time limit like

13. When a professor wants to teach class after a test

14. When school starts getting tough and you debate dropping out and start thinking of your options

15. Only staying in school because you live an expensive lifestyle and need to get rich to afford it

16. Meeting some of your best friends for life and making sure you put them above everything

17. Making it through the year and finding out you passed all your classes despite your excessive partying


18. Ending the year just how you started it...


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