After high school, it seems that there are four main options to choose from: university, community college, the military, or working a job. If you fall into a category other than university, you may feel like you're missing the true experience of what college life is like. You may feel like you made the wrong choice, didn't do exactly what everyone else did, or simply feel stupid. Hopefully, the following reasons show you just what you are or aren't missing out on.

1. The dress code

I am not kidding you, there is a dress code. Whether it is intentional or not, guys and girls all wear the same thing. Everything is completely cliquey, but that's for another article. If you're a girl, it's leggings, boots, and some upper-half accessory (scarf, jewelry, hat, sunglasses, etc.). If you're a boy, it's probably cargo shorts, khaki pants, or basketball shorts. Tennis shoes always, and some sort of university-related T-shirt.

2. The lack of sleep

While you at home may be going to bed at 10 or 11 o'clock (and sleeping in), we are very sleepily doing homework at all hours of the night. Our roommates are most likely angry with us for having a light on at 2 a.m., or we're debating leaving the library or not after a long study session. When we wake back up at 8 a.m. to start the day all over again, we ingest coffee. Seriously, that should be on the list.

2B. The coffee

As Edward Cullen says, it's "like my personal brand of heroin." Bad analogy? I need more coffee.

3. The walking

You know the phrase "soft smiles"? That's how I feel when I remember the amount of walking in college. I went from a steady 0.3 miles in high school to 3.0 miles in college per day. It's a great life. I'm still soft smiling.

4. The general anger

Usually preserved with our aforementioned soft smiles, university students are generally angrier than non-university students. If not angry towards our professors, our massive amount of homework, or our lack of sleep, we're probably angry at the world in general. No, we're not fighting with our friends; I just woke up like this.

5. The amount of money missing

I had to download the mobile banking app for my bank to regularly check in on my debit card. Whether it be Uber, Wendy's, or the beloved Amazon.com, my bank account is crying almost as much as I am. This is where university students are completely envious of the job-right-after-high school path. I wish I had your bank account.

6. Living on campus freshman year

See this? This is my car (and me, hey). Do you know what I don't have? My car. Generally, I'm upset due to my lack of car. I'm either walking or taking the bus to the nearest Walmart, or I'm getting my groceries from CVS. I can't visit my friends at different schools, I can't go home, and I have to live on a hall with 40 other people. Let me promise you, they are all I see because I literally have no way to leave. Neither do they, so it's a wonderfully vicious cycle.

7. The terrible food

"The [university's] Dining Halls have a 5-star rating! Wonderful food at all times!" Here is the biggest secret ever: The food is good when the dining staff knows that parents are going to be in town. It's move-in day? Parents' weekend? Expect sirloin and crab. It's a Tuesday in February? Soup. Bland soup. Sad-looking, oil creating a new top layer soup. It's a great time. I love Wendy's.

8. The self-doubt

Can I change my major? Can I do this major? Can I make any friends? Am I good enough to even go here? How did I get in here? Am I going to fail out? These are all questions asked almost every single day. Your mind is going crazy off of the minimal sleep, the junk food, and the vast amounts of homework. I have never considered myself so stupid than when I went to university.

9. The homesickness

If you don't pass someone walking to class on the phone or FaceTiming their family, I'm honestly surprised. People go home on random weekends all the time, just using more gas and money to see their family. Phone bills all go up, mostly because of the horrible service, but also because of the data usage. If we're not homesick from our family, it's our friends back home or our high school friends at other schools. I have yet to meet anyone who hasn't gone home or visited friends from another school. University makes you miss people.

I realized that the first nine points were sort of sad, and very off-putting for university in general. But I think the greatest thing of all is that while all university students feel this at some point, we're all able to bond over it. I meet friends in the study lounge at 2 a.m. almost every week. We do our laundry together now. Feel stupid? I know people who have made many friends from support groups through the psychological center. Everyone is FaceTiming their family? Introduce them to your hallmates. We can bond over the tiring cafeteria food by experimenting with it. Have you ever heard of french fries and pita bread on top of pizza? Yeah, it was really dry and kind of disgusting.

10. Friends

But we have fun.