Before you pack up your entire life and move into your freshman dorm room, people always like to give you college advice. Whether it's about college parties, making friends, or dorm life, people who have gone to college are always willing to share their experiences and help you out before you make the same mistakes as they did. However, there are some things most people tend to leave out. Here are seven things people don't tell you before you go to college:
1. You will feel lonely ... a lot.
You will miss your friends and family back home, especially when you're trying to write a 10-page research paper alone in your dorm room.
2. You're either super busy or super bored. There's no in-between.
It's as if your professors come together and plan to have all their papers and exams in the same week. Give a student a break, would ya?!
3. You will learn how gross people can get.
You'll love cleaning other people's hair off of the sink or, worse, out of the shower drain.
4. You'll either love orientation, or hate it.
Meeting new people, tasting college food for the first time, and participating in activities lead by your orientation leader? Yeah, you'll either be skipping every activity or be the first member of your orientation group to show up because you're so excited.
5. Your professors will reply to your professional, five-paragraph emails in one-word responses.
Realize that professors are very busy people, and the fact that they read your email is an achievement in itself, especially if you go to a large university.
6. You will take more naps in college than you did in preschool.
And you will have an alarm on your phone set so that you wake up at a decent time to (finally) read that chapter for biology.
7. When it comes to your appearance, you'll either care way too much or not at all.
One day, you'll walk out of your dorm room looking and feeling like Britney Spears in 2007. The next day, you'll walk out looking like Britney Spears in 2015. Just remember: You're stronger than yesterday.
College is amazing and terrible at the same time, but you won't want to trade this experience, the people you meet, or the cool classes you take for the world. Now, if I could get a student discount on tuition, that'd be cool.
One last thing:
