Some of us are curious as to how the rest of the world lives outside of our lovely California. For those of you who go to college outside of our state, here are a few very, very factual statements about said experience:
1. You'll learn to forgive people who call our beautiful state "Cali." You'll cringe a little every time, but they just don't know any better.
2. In-n-out is 100% amazing, and anyone who tells you otherwise is either lying or has never had it — haters gonna hate.
3. You will be alarmed when you are no longer bronze - most people are not eternally tan like we are. But odds you'll have one of the sickest tans on campus when you head back at the end of the summer are very high.
4. You will say words like "sick," "dank," and refer to freeways in ways others do not comprehend. Don't let them change you. You keep taking the 5 to the 710 all the way down to PCH until you get to San Diego, and you do it with PRIDE.
5. You will experience weather other than sunny and 75. Your knit sweaters with stitches as big as your fist and bro tanks will simply not do if you are going somewhere cold.
6. If you live in Los Angeles or remotely close to it, people will assume you are rubbing shoulders with the rich and famous on the daily. For most of us, this doesn't happen that often. However, if you do live in Los Angeles, you can probably impress people when you tell them you've been to Soul Cycle while Khloe K was in the house.
9. You will be asked a million, trillion times why you left beautiful SoCal for somewhere that they admit sucks in comparison... And you agree, it's just not the same. But living somewhere outside of the Golden State will make you realize how much you took California for granted all those years.
11. You will presumably be an excellent surfer... LOL
12. You will be in a state of shock when you see what other people refer to as "traffic."
13. You also will not be able to wrap your head around the price of gas in your respective college's state... I pay more for a pack of gum in CA than people pay for a gallon of gas in New Jersey.
14. You will experience the mythical occurrence that is rain and will remember that your home state is in a serious drought and that the sky is wasting a ridiculous amount of water when it pours all day... SEND IT TO SO-CAL.
15. Someone will take you to their favorite Mexican restaurant and say it's amazing whilst you silently cry because it does not compare to SoCal Mexican.
16. You will somehow find yourself gravitating towards other Southern Californians without really trying.
17. Some people will say you have a Californian accent. I still don't understand this one, but I think it's another way of saying we are extremely cool sounding, and they wish they sounded just as cool.
18. At the end of the day, all of these little quirks mean nothing because you grew up in the most beautiful state ever.
