College, life lessons

When they say your world will turn around, your alcohol tolerance will exceed your expectations, your white clothes will turn pink, and you will wear nothing but tracksuits and hoodies, they were right.

College is always expressed as a place of learning, meeting new people, and learning to be independent. They were right, but they didn't tell you how.

you meet hundreds of new people every day, but, you either never see them again, forget what they look like in the mass of students (mostly they all look alike) or forget you ever met them (drunk encounters)

you not only meet new people everyday but you 'hook-up' with several guys in one night and wake up denying it ever happened because as long as you were concerned, you forget you even went to the club (pre-drinking)

when you meet people you remember them with unimportant tags (the french triplets, kuwaiti guy, greek girl with pimples, one without, the cigarette guy, short one, founders, x chris, guy from the first lecture, indian guy with the car, the guy that jumped over the seats, anorexic one)

you re-meet people without realizing and figure it out three introductions later

when someone looks familiar you don't know whether you met them, were in one of your workshops, asked you for a cig between class, or you facebook stalked off of someones profile, so you learn to keep your mouth shut.

college is a place of learning,

you learn that no one could care any less if you show up to class

you learn that when you don't show up to class, you have everything online

you learn that when you miss class they announce tests that even people who went to class forget about

you learn that no matter how much you go to class, study, read, or anything that involves the material assigned, the test will still be impossibly difficult, half the material you never covered before, and you always have two questions when there are 5 mins left

you learnt that the reading they assign is merely suggested reading and material which was suggested as extra "knowledge" will be on the exam

you learn that you will almost fail your classes, especially the really easy ones.

you learn that your group will always have an obsessive bossy team member a peace maker, and the rest will not give a rats ass

you learn that although someone signed in for your workshop, the one workshop you miss will be the one workshop where you will need to present something

you learn that no matter how many times you see your professors, they will never remember your name.

In college you learn to be independent

you will be independent because no one knows what the hell is going on, and most of the time you will be the only one that actually cares

there will be times where you are so drunk you can barely stand up, yet you are responsible for your friends who are passed out around you

you will be kicked out of clubs for smoking, causing a scene, or a friend puking, but you will learn to talk your way back in

you will forget what a proper restaurant looks like and every time a family member comes into town, you make an extra effort to show them the city (of course top restaurants, they pay)

before you refused to join anyone's table at a club which you barely know, but in college you will learn to lose all your pride and dignity and the moment you see someone you just recognize your all over them

in college you will make friends with people you could not stand before

in college you will have friends for every occasion

ie) drinking buddies (football team), clubbing buddies (friends you only see in clubs on their tables), house buddies (people always at your house for no reason), lunch buddies (people you meet up with in college only because your friends are still in their lectures), dinner buddies (people you meet occasionally for dinner, hang out a bit, never actually go out with), study buddy (people you see while working together on a project then they are never heard of again, or a bright kid whom you insist go out with you a couple of days before that online exam)

in college you expirence new things

you sleep on the floor because you think the bed is moving away from you (still drunk)

you manage to sit through the entire drinking games of the sports teams but at the end of the boat race you think your the mother fucking shit

you take your pants and bra off to be left in briefs and a shirt, but since you've been drinking you think your the hottest thing around, you wish you had waxed so you can take your shirt off

you hand in your scarf, coat, and pants to the cloak hangers in the SU

you find your bra on a mysterious boys head after which you must prove it is yours to get it back

you wake up after a night out and wonder why the hell you have a tag around your wrist and who the hell are these people that signed your shirt

you wake up after a night out to find a sticker on your head that says cool, a cig behind your ear, no pants, no keys, and no fucking clue how you actually made it home

you wake up and find a gazillion people in your living room who giggle the moment you walk in. You proceed by asking what is funny after which they laugh, you realize later in the day, after your friend tells you, that you were pole dancing the night before

waking up before 10 am means you havent gone to bed yet, waking up at 1 is early, and making it to all your classes that day is a miracle

the waiters at the cafe below your apartment stopped asking for id everytime you order a drink because you've become such good friends with them you go drinking together

smokin is a matter of rolling it not buying it

the tobacco lady at tesco smiles at you everytime you walk in




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