Being a lover of superheroes and comics, I frequently imagine myself with amazing superhuman abilities to fight bad guys and rescue civilians. But now that I’m in college and my life is busier than it used to be, when I get some time to read comics I find myself wishing I had superpowers not to fight or save people...but just to make life easier. I mean, superpowers have to be enjoyed at least a little bit. So, just what superpowers WOULD benefit college students? After some reflection and discussion with my friends, I’ve found that these are the top superhuman abilities that college students wish they had.
1. Telepathy
The ability to read, project and manipulate thoughts, and very useful for situations where you have to deal with others but don’t want to be caught by surprise. It’s especially helpful when when wondering what that girl or guy is thinking about, or making your professor postpone or cancel an essay or test that you weren’t ready or didn’t want to take.
2. Telekinesis
The ability to manipulate objects using only your mind. Imagine that you’re sitting in your bed watching Netflix and you’re suddenly thirsty, but the fridge is on the other side of the room and your spot is so comfortable that you don’t want to get up. With telekinesis, you’d only have to focus and raise your hand and the refrigerator door would open and your drink would float to your hand. It’s also handy for hanging up dorm decorations that are out of reach, levitating above ground when you don’t want your shoes to get dirty, or removing a classmate out of your unassigned, assigned seat.
3. Teleportation
The ability to instantly move from one location to another. Just last week, I forgot my lab goggles for my Chemistry Lab and my dorm is on the other side of campus AND class started in less that ten minuted. I had to RUN, RUN, RUN! Luckily, I made it back on time but I was filthy and drenched with sweat. Running late or having to go back to home is one handy application for teleportation...I could have been in my room and back in class in less than a minute.
4. Precognition
The ability to foresee future events before they happen. It’s a power that is immediately helpful for trying to figure out when your professor is going to take up homework the next day or give a pop-quiz, or even when knowing what’s going to be in the cafeteria so you can decide if you’re going to be eating out that day.
5. Chronokinesis
The ability to manipulate time. Students can push back time to get in a few more hours of sleep before 8 am classes, add more hours to the day get in a more study time or extend their deadlines for social events, or even go back in time to undo mistakes.
6. Duplication
The ability to make duplicates/doppelgangers/clones of oneself. This power would best benefit students who “can’t be everywhere at once”. One copy of you could be studying, while you’re actually at informal/formal, with another clone is back at home spending time with family and pets and another is running errands. At the end of the day, you can collapse your duplicates back into yourself and it’s like you experienced everything they did and you’ve missed nothing.
7. Intuitive Aptitude
The ability to instantly know how to things work. You could walk into one class of Chemistry, Physics, Music Theory, Sentence Grammar or any difficult class, leave and never show up but always ace the tests just because you know how everything works….the topic at hand and it’s applications, the teacher’s style, and how the class will be operated. This power might make you a bit of a “know-it-all” but you’d make excellent grades.
8. Luck
Simply, the ability to be constantly lucky. The cafeteria happens to always have something you like, your teacher doesn’t take up homework when you forget to do it, you go out with a crush, you manage to ace a test that you didn’t prepare for and you always happen to be in the right place at the right time. Everything ALWAYS goes your way.
9. Self-Sustenance
The ability to have no physical needs. No need for sleep, food or oxygen. Now this might not sound like a desired ability, but this power only removes the need for these things. The fictional characters with this ability, like Superman, do still eat and sleep but they don’t have to. In a college setting, this helpful for those who have eighteen hours full of challenging classes, they don’t have to worry about missing a meal or getting enough sleep but they’d still be alert and energized as if they’d eaten a hearty meal and gotten eight hours of sleep.
10. Dimensional Storage
The ability to keep objects in another dimension and materialize it at will. This ability comes in handy when having to carry a heavy backpack or a fragile project across a large campus during a hot summer. It’s also helpful when you have something that just have a feeling that you might lose, you’d just put it in your pocket dimension and it’d always be there for you to retrieve when you need it.
