College is more than just having piles of homework and partying on the weekends (or not). It's more of a whirlwind of emotions, a weird lifestyle, a place where the little things really matter. The average person wouldn't understand. But all you college kids will know about these 30 things:
1. Backpack sweat marks
It happens even in the wintertime.
2. Shock from realizing you forgot your earbuds
You're going to be so bored doing your homework now.
3. Understanding how much it actually sucks to forget your umbrella
In high school, umbrellas were never a thing. In college, they save your life.
4. Missing your mom
And her food, hospitality and back rubs.
5. Sudden anger when the professor says, “Group project.”
Group projects are the reason you have lost hope in humanity.
6. Dreading the climb up four flights of stairs to get to a class you hate
You work out every night, but those stairs still kill you.
7. Being hangry
No one is allowed to speak to you until you get food.
8. Scheduling naps for the next day on a daily basis
You literally write down when you're taking your naps in your planner.
9. Being woken up by your roommate
Somehow they always manage to accidentally knock over the heaviest objects in your room before 7 a.m.
10. Doing everything else you can think of before doing any homework
That's the only way you get any chores done around your dorm.
11. Opening your textbook just to say you read it
You read the title of the chapter. You got the gist of it.
12. Wearing the same outfit two days in a row because your MWF peeps don’t see you on TTH
Which is usually your scrub clothes.
13. Trying to remember the name of that one person who says hi to you every day as if they know you
You can't remember when you even met them, so how are you supposed to remember their name?
14. Stalking some random person on social media and figuring out that your roommate’s best friend’s cousin is dating the one girl you met on the bus
You're not creepy, you're just secretly connecting the dots you would never know were there if it weren't for social media.
15. Introducing one friend to another friend you know and finding out they already know each other
You strongly believe in the idea that you're only six people away from someone you know and everyone you know also knows other people you know. College = small world.
16. Napping anywhere
Bench outside the bathroom? Nappable. Your desk in class? Nappable. The couch in the campus coffee shop? Nappable.
17. Looking at your phone or laptop at lunch so you don’t look like a lonely loser
You've mindlessly scrolled through your Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and Twitter feeds twice just so you can eat your sandwich.
18. Seeing the same person every day on campus but never actually coming in contact with them
You see their face so much that you could describe their features to someone else perfectly.
19. People-watching has become a hobby of yours
You deliberately pick a discreet spot in the cafeteria so you can people-watch without looking creepy.
20. Thinking about dropping out of college after you see the grade from your first test of the semester
There's no way you could recover from that blow to your GPA.
21. Getting excited when you see a letter in your mailbox
Handwritten mail is always a day-maker.
22. Making eye contact with your love interest, which gives you the go-ahead to plan the wedding
That eye contact definitely meant "I want you." What? No, it wasn't accidental; they stared right into your soul.
23. Saying you want a girlfriend or boyfriend but denying the fact that you really have no time
And no money and no car. Basically no life.
24. Wanting to pet every dog you see in public because you miss your dog
Stranger danger does not exist when you approach a dog's owner to ask to pet it.
25. Feeling your soul shatter into a million pieces every time you think about the debt you’re racking up
You get a job to go to college and go to college to get a job. Along the way, you become broke.
26. Reminding your friend every time you see them that they owe you $3.26 for that coffee you bought them because you are stingy
That $3.26 goes toward your tuition bill, not your friend's coffee addiction.
27. Getting annoyed when you see a nicely dressed person on campus because you only had just enough energy to remember underwear this morning
You stopped trying a long time ago.
28. Rolling your eyes at the person in class who answers every question the professor asks
You also stopped raising your hand because that person gets called on all the time.
29. Wanting to make a T-shirt that says your name, dorm building, year in school, major and minor on it because you’re sick of saying all of that
The answers to all the basic introduction questions are then conveniently accessible to anyone who asks.
30. Feeling like a fish in a fish tank when you walk past a campus tour
The sparkly look of hope and freedom in those young high school eyes is cute. But you know it doesn't last forever.
