Everything That Can Go Wrong Your First Week of College
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Everything That Can Go Wrong Your First Week of College

This may or may not be based on personal experience.

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Everything That Can Go Wrong Your First Week of College
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Let's be honest, the first week of college isn't always easy for everyone. Here's how to make the best of all the worst situations.

1) Your roommate decides not to go to college there anymore and she had offered to bring both a microwave and a refrigerator.

At least you won't have to worry about sharing the bathroom with anyone. And you can always call your parents to bring you a fridge, or rent one from the university.

2) After the RAs give a speech about the trash in the lounge stinking up the entire hallway and you put smelly stuff in there. You feel the need to throw up and can't make it back to your dorm room.


Thankfully RAs are usually very nice about these things and help you out by bringing you paper towels and water and letting you clean yourself up before joining the rest of your floor at a presentation.

3) You're forced to watch some type of presentation and while the lights are off and the film plays, you are overcome with sadness about your whole world changing and decide to cry because no one can see you in the dark.

If you really feel the need to do this, go ahead. The people around you either won't notice or will be too polite to say anything about it.

4) It's your first night at college and it seems like everyone is at that one party, but you don't think you can muster up the energy to pretend to be happy while you're there.

Listen, there will be plenty of parties throughout the year. If you don't feel up to this one, you don't have to go. Also, don't underestimate the solace that texting your closest friends from home until you fall asleep can give you.

5) You oversleep the morning of your first class.

Odds are the walk from your dorm to your class's building isn't that long and you'll actually end up being early. Plus there might be other people waiting outside the classroom at the same time as you, which gives you a chance to get to know them.

6) You can't find your one friend in your major during convocation

Think of this as an opportunity to meet new people. You might meet someone who introduces you to their friends, who you can explore campus with and meet more people at one of the campus' events, eventually forming a lit group chat with them.

7) You braved rain, running from your friend's dorm to the student center with your new college squad to get a henna tattoo at an event, but the line is way too long and you don't think it will ever be your turn.

While you're sitting in that line (after about a half hour everyone starts to sit down), be sure to check Snapchat to see what your friends are doing. If you see that they're downstairs watching people float in a pool inside bubbles, ditch that line and go for the bubbles.


As you can see, things are never as bad as they appear, and sometimes when your plans fail it means something better is coming your way. Best of luck to everyone that started college this week. It gets better, trust me.

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