College is a weird place. This won't be a surprising sentence to anyone currently in college, or who has graduated college, but before my freshman year I really had no idea how strange college would be. I thought it would be similar to high school, except for the whole living there thing. I couldn't have been more wrong.
The biggest thing that's weird about college is the passing of time. 8am might as well be the middle of the night, 11am is the earliest acceptable time to go to class, 6pm is basically noon, and 1am is around the time most students start thinking about going to bed. Days seem to have more hours in them up at school, and yet somehow those hours go by faster than they ever did in high school.
Somehow, despite each day feeling like it contains at least 40 hours, weeks go by in the blink of an eye. They seem impossible to get through on Monday morning, and then somehow it's Friday afternoon and you're celebrating being done with class for the week. Another blink and suddenly it's Sunday night, you're facing the reality of all the homework you didn't do when you had tons of time to do it, and the next week is about to start.
College also does absolutely wild things to your eating habits. Dining hall food is mediocre at best and inedible at worst, leaving us to fend for ourselves a lot of the time. However, college students are also broke. This leads to things like ramen or easy mac being consumed for almost every meal, with nary a fruit or vegetable in sight. I finally started eating fruit every other day when I realized my eating habits had a decent chance of causing me to get scurvy before the end of the semester, and now I feel like a beacon of health every time I eat one of the grapes from the fruit cup in my dorm's café. Back home, I ate at least one salad every day and dinners consisted of things like lean meat, green vegetables, and pasta or rice. Now? The fact that easy mac no longer contains any artificial coloring makes it practically healthy.
I love college, and I wouldn't change any of it for the world. But we've all got to admit, it's a weird time!
