You know you're in college when...
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hoskie! You know you're in college when...
1. High school started before 8am, but now anything before noon is considered "early." And yet, I'm on campus by 8:30 three mornings in the week. WTF?
2. You have more beer than food in your fridge. In first year, yes... because I had a meal plan and my fridge was just for leftovers and alcohol.
3. Weekends start on Thursday. How much do I hate my Friday class? Let me count the ways.... (That? Was particularly clever 'cause it's an ENGLISH class. *mwa-mwa*
4. 6am is when you go to sleep, not when you wake up. Again, not this year, but last year it was pretty damn close. This year I have to be up by 6:30 to leave on time... see #1.
5. You know many different ways to cook ramen noodles or macaroni and cheese.
6. The health center gives out free condoms, and you take them... just in case. Oh, first year. Hee!
7. Instead of falling asleep in class, you stay in bed. It happens at least once per term.
8. You know how late McDonald's, Taco Bell, Qdoba, etc. are open. Ewwwwwwww. But. Subway is open all night. And Wendy's is open at least past midnight. Falafel Hut is open until 2 or 4am, depending on the night. DAMN. *goes back and bolds #8*
9. You think it's the weekend on a Wednesday and you don’t know what month it is. This year, I don't have class on Wednesdays. It gets confusing!
10. You can't remember the last time you washed your car. If I had a car...
11. Your underwear/sock supply dictates your laundry schedule.
12. You check Facebook/Myspace more than once a day. Lj! *waves*
13. You get drunk dialed on any night of the week. I don't think anyone knows my phone number...
14. You wash dishes in the bathroom sink. Again, moreso when I lived on campus, but it's been known to happen even though I do have a kitchen-like corner of my apartment.
15. You've fallen off a loft bed.
16. You talk about beer pong like it's a sport.
17. Finding random people in your house is perfectly normal, and you even sympathize with them... sometimes when you wake up you have no idea where you are.
18. Your primary news sources are the Daily Show and the Colbert Report.
19. You open a beer at 10 am and your roommate asks you if there’s more.
20. The standard of meals per day falls to two, sometimes just one.
21. Your trash is overflowing and your bank account isn't.
22. You go to Target or WalMart more than 3 times a week.
23. You wear the same jeans for 13 days without washing them. Febreeze!
24. Your breakfast consists of a coke or cereal bar on the way to class... anything with caffeine will do. I will always link the 8:30am FACS 2500 class with the taste of Hazelnut Vanilla flavoured coffee with milk. It's like... one will never exist without the other.
25. Quarters are like gold.
26. Your idea of feeding the poor is buying yourself some ramen noodles.
27. You live in a house with three couches, none of which match. Chairs, not couches, but yeah.
28. You try to study but seem to procrastinate by eating, going to study breaks, talking to people, etc... Filling out memes...
29. You talk to your roommate on instant messenger when you're both home.
30. You ask people what YOU did last night.
31. Certain things are now deemed "facebook worthy." When friends take pictures of you, you wonder how long it will take them to post them.
32. You’ve seen a hit and run involving a bicyclist/pedestrian. Wacky coincidence, was almost run over twice while walking home today.
33. You see people you know you’ve met but can never remember their names or how you know them.
34. You sleep more in class than in your room. I wish!
35. Your idea of a square meal is a box of Pop-Tarts. *grabs Canada Food Guide* They're not?
36. You've traveled with bags of dirty clothes.
37. You go home to do your laundry because you're too poor to pay the $2... or too lazy to go to a change machine.
38. You pay $100 for a book you don't read once, return it four months later, and get $7. I keep my textbooks because they're actually useful in later classes. *shrugs*
39. More than 20% of your household furnishings are made from milk crates. *checks* Eh... more like 15%.
40. You recognize the meat in the dorm soup as yesterday's meatloaf, and thus decide to eat a nice bowl of cereal - a safe bet for any meal. Can't go wrong with cereal or salad!
41. You use words like "thus" (see #40).
42. You throw out bowls and plates because you don't feel like washing them.
43. Your beer pong table is nicer than all your other tables.
44. It takes preparation... and 3 people... to take out your garbage.
45. Going to the library is a social event.
46. You wear flip flops in the shower your freshman year... you know why.
47. You start joining clubs because of the free food. Hells yes!
48. Visits home depend on how much money you have for gas. Or train tickets.
49. You skip one class to write a paper for another.
50. You have no idea where your tuition money is going... technology fees? I think not.
51. Bicycles don't seem as lame as they did in high school.
52. You stay up late to finish homework then sleep through the class in which it was due. I'd rather make it to class and beg an extension... but I don't have classes with homework, so... *shrugs*
53. Girls: You've balanced your foot on a shampoo bottle to shave.
54. Your backpack is giving you scoliosis.
55. You've written a check for 45 cents or stopped to get $2.00 of gas.
56. Your bill in the bookstore will be comparable to tuition.
57. Going to the mailbox becomes an ego booster/breaker.
58. Most of your T.A.s are foreign... what's the deal?
59. You never realized so many people are smarter than you.
60. You never realized so many people are dumber than you.
61. Western Europe could be wiped out by a terrible plague and you'd never know, but you can recite the last episode of your favorite show verbatim.
62. Care packages rank right up there with birthdays.
63. You craft ways to make any game into a drinking/stripping game. Not that I actually play the games, but it's still fun to talk about movies/episodes in terms of their drinking-game-ibility.
64. You meet the type of people you thought only existed in movies.
65. Printers break down only when you desperately need them. HA. Except, not funny. *pets printer*
66. Anything can be cooked in a microwave. Mmm... radiation.
67. Two words: bike cops.
68. You have Safe Ride programmed into your phone.
69. Old school Nintendo... and guitar hero... are pretty much the best things ever. KATAMARI!
70. Going to the grocery at midnight is completely normal. Thank god for the all-night bus and 24 hour grocery stores.
71. You call restaurants that deliver more than you call your own family.
72. You've paid bills over $5... in coins.
73. You can't imagine life without your computer/cell phone/ ipod.
74. Hoodies and sweatpants become the norm - jeans are considered "dressy" at certain occasions... like school. Sub in "sexxily-ill-fitting workout pants" for "sweatpants" and yeah.
75. A canceled class is almost as exciting as Christmas. Like when your prof gets stuck in Montreal!
76. Taking a nap in the library is perfectlyacceptable. normal, expected, absolutely natural
77. Your professors speak English... as a second language. Oh, Frankie and your incomprehensible Indonesian accent.
78. Your teachers swear in class and no one cares. Today, Scott ("Prof. MacKenzie") said, "Thank fuck, it's David Hasselhoff!". Long story... but still, funny. Yeah, you had to be there.
79. Candles in your dorm room are considered contraband, but cigarettes are ok.
80. You take condiment packets and napkins from fast food restaurants - hey, they're free. I haven't bought salt in the three years I've been away from my parents.
81. Betta fish are like your family.
82. You bring back socks from the laundry room that may or may not be yours. I have this great green pair of panties that I found in with my wash at the laundromat... hey, they were CLEAN and they fit!
83. You know what people carrying suspiciously heavy backpacks after dark are doing... Underground midget transportation?
84. The elevators take forever but you'll wait 10 minutes just so you don't have to climb stairs. If it's more than three stories, yes. Otherwise, no.
85. Your roommate asks you to check the weather on your computer when they're standing 5 feet away from the door.
86. Showers become more of an issue.
87. You press the automatic door opener instead of simply grabbing the handle when you approach a door.
88. Christmas lights seem to be acceptable all year round.
89. Class size doubles on exam days.
90. You donate plasma even though you know it's pretty sketchy. Can't... can't say I've considered it. When my Dad was in college he'd head over to Detroit (from Windsor) and sell his blood, though.
91. You are no longer thankful that fire alarms are here to protect you.
92. You've bought Christmas presents from the book store and charged it to your student account so your parents pay for the gifts because you're too broke.
93. You begin to include ketchup on your list of acceptable vegetables. Ew, ketchup.
94. You stay on campus for hours in between classes when it's too cold to walk home. Too cold and too far away, yeah. Plus, I work on campus so I just go in a grab a few hours of paid job-time if I've got a big break.
95. People have to help you kick the vending machine just so you can get your 50 cent bag of chips.
96. There's always a "question kid" in at least one of your classes, and you really wish someone would just tell him/her to shut the hell up. And more often than not, her name isnaturelf. Sometimes I worry that as the Hermione of the class, everyone else hates me. Other times, I wish the rest of the class would put their damn hands up so I didn't feel obligated to answer the damn questions!
97. You steal dishes from the cafeteria so you don't have to wash your own.
98. Laundry is an all-day event. And HOW.
99. You no longer find it uncool to take naps. In fact, you quite enjoy them. Never did find it uncool, but hey.
100. It's illegal to drink in the dorms yet they sell an assortment of shot glasses, beer mugs, tankards, etc. in the bookstore. THOSE are for off-campus use.
101. You find your list of acceptable napping places expanding daily to increasingly uncomfortable locations. But the couch up in the film department reading room? DIVINE.
102. You fill out credit card applications for the free food.
103. You've eaten cereal out of a cup... with a fork. You haven't?
104. Dressing up for Halloween becomes cool again. It always was.
105. You finish reading this and wonder how you can procrastinate next. Dinner time! Then fic, then some Katamari... *eyes English paper that's due Friday*. Quiet, you.
hoskie! You know you're in college when...1. High school started before 8am, but now anything before noon is considered "early." And yet, I'm on campus by 8:30 three mornings in the week. WTF?
2. You have more beer than food in your fridge. In first year, yes... because I had a meal plan and my fridge was just for leftovers and alcohol.
3. Weekends start on Thursday. How much do I hate my Friday class? Let me count the ways.... (That? Was particularly clever 'cause it's an ENGLISH class. *mwa-mwa*
4. 6am is when you go to sleep, not when you wake up. Again, not this year, but last year it was pretty damn close. This year I have to be up by 6:30 to leave on time... see #1.
5. You know many different ways to cook ramen noodles or macaroni and cheese.
6. The health center gives out free condoms, and you take them... just in case. Oh, first year. Hee!
7. Instead of falling asleep in class, you stay in bed. It happens at least once per term.
8. You know how late McDonald's, Taco Bell, Qdoba, etc. are open. Ewwwwwwww. But. Subway is open all night. And Wendy's is open at least past midnight. Falafel Hut is open until 2 or 4am, depending on the night. DAMN. *goes back and bolds #8*
9. You think it's the weekend on a Wednesday and you don’t know what month it is. This year, I don't have class on Wednesdays. It gets confusing!
10. You can't remember the last time you washed your car. If I had a car...
11. Your underwear/sock supply dictates your laundry schedule.
12. You check Facebook/Myspace more than once a day. Lj! *waves*
13. You get drunk dialed on any night of the week. I don't think anyone knows my phone number...
14. You wash dishes in the bathroom sink. Again, moreso when I lived on campus, but it's been known to happen even though I do have a kitchen-like corner of my apartment.
15. You've fallen off a loft bed.
16. You talk about beer pong like it's a sport.
17. Finding random people in your house is perfectly normal, and you even sympathize with them... sometimes when you wake up you have no idea where you are.
18. Your primary news sources are the Daily Show and the Colbert Report.
19. You open a beer at 10 am and your roommate asks you if there’s more.
20. The standard of meals per day falls to two, sometimes just one.
21. Your trash is overflowing and your bank account isn't.
22. You go to Target or WalMart more than 3 times a week.
23. You wear the same jeans for 13 days without washing them. Febreeze!
24. Your breakfast consists of a coke or cereal bar on the way to class... anything with caffeine will do. I will always link the 8:30am FACS 2500 class with the taste of Hazelnut Vanilla flavoured coffee with milk. It's like... one will never exist without the other.
25. Quarters are like gold.
26. Your idea of feeding the poor is buying yourself some ramen noodles.
27. You live in a house with three couches, none of which match. Chairs, not couches, but yeah.
28. You try to study but seem to procrastinate by eating, going to study breaks, talking to people, etc... Filling out memes...
29. You talk to your roommate on instant messenger when you're both home.
30. You ask people what YOU did last night.
31. Certain things are now deemed "facebook worthy." When friends take pictures of you, you wonder how long it will take them to post them.
32. You’ve seen a hit and run involving a bicyclist/pedestrian. Wacky coincidence, was almost run over twice while walking home today.
33. You see people you know you’ve met but can never remember their names or how you know them.
34. You sleep more in class than in your room. I wish!
35. Your idea of a square meal is a box of Pop-Tarts. *grabs Canada Food Guide* They're not?
36. You've traveled with bags of dirty clothes.
37. You go home to do your laundry because you're too poor to pay the $2... or too lazy to go to a change machine.
38. You pay $100 for a book you don't read once, return it four months later, and get $7. I keep my textbooks because they're actually useful in later classes. *shrugs*
39. More than 20% of your household furnishings are made from milk crates. *checks* Eh... more like 15%.
40. You recognize the meat in the dorm soup as yesterday's meatloaf, and thus decide to eat a nice bowl of cereal - a safe bet for any meal. Can't go wrong with cereal or salad!
41. You use words like "thus" (see #40).
42. You throw out bowls and plates because you don't feel like washing them.
43. Your beer pong table is nicer than all your other tables.
44. It takes preparation... and 3 people... to take out your garbage.
45. Going to the library is a social event.
46. You wear flip flops in the shower your freshman year... you know why.
47. You start joining clubs because of the free food. Hells yes!
48. Visits home depend on how much money you have for gas. Or train tickets.
49. You skip one class to write a paper for another.
50. You have no idea where your tuition money is going... technology fees? I think not.
51. Bicycles don't seem as lame as they did in high school.
52. You stay up late to finish homework then sleep through the class in which it was due. I'd rather make it to class and beg an extension... but I don't have classes with homework, so... *shrugs*
53. Girls: You've balanced your foot on a shampoo bottle to shave.
54. Your backpack is giving you scoliosis.
55. You've written a check for 45 cents or stopped to get $2.00 of gas.
56. Your bill in the bookstore will be comparable to tuition.
57. Going to the mailbox becomes an ego booster/breaker.
58. Most of your T.A.s are foreign... what's the deal?
59. You never realized so many people are smarter than you.
60. You never realized so many people are dumber than you.
61. Western Europe could be wiped out by a terrible plague and you'd never know, but you can recite the last episode of your favorite show verbatim.
62. Care packages rank right up there with birthdays.
63. You craft ways to make any game into a drinking/stripping game. Not that I actually play the games, but it's still fun to talk about movies/episodes in terms of their drinking-game-ibility.
64. You meet the type of people you thought only existed in movies.
65. Printers break down only when you desperately need them. HA. Except, not funny. *pets printer*
66. Anything can be cooked in a microwave. Mmm... radiation.
67. Two words: bike cops.
68. You have Safe Ride programmed into your phone.
69. Old school Nintendo... and guitar hero... are pretty much the best things ever. KATAMARI!
70. Going to the grocery at midnight is completely normal. Thank god for the all-night bus and 24 hour grocery stores.
71. You call restaurants that deliver more than you call your own family.
72. You've paid bills over $5... in coins.
73. You can't imagine life without your computer/cell phone/ ipod.
74. Hoodies and sweatpants become the norm - jeans are considered "dressy" at certain occasions... like school. Sub in "sexxily-ill-fitting workout pants" for "sweatpants" and yeah.
75. A canceled class is almost as exciting as Christmas. Like when your prof gets stuck in Montreal!
76. Taking a nap in the library is perfectly
77. Your professors speak English... as a second language. Oh, Frankie and your incomprehensible Indonesian accent.
78. Your teachers swear in class and no one cares. Today, Scott ("Prof. MacKenzie") said, "Thank fuck, it's David Hasselhoff!". Long story... but still, funny. Yeah, you had to be there.
79. Candles in your dorm room are considered contraband, but cigarettes are ok.
80. You take condiment packets and napkins from fast food restaurants - hey, they're free. I haven't bought salt in the three years I've been away from my parents.
81. Betta fish are like your family.
82. You bring back socks from the laundry room that may or may not be yours. I have this great green pair of panties that I found in with my wash at the laundromat... hey, they were CLEAN and they fit!
83. You know what people carrying suspiciously heavy backpacks after dark are doing... Underground midget transportation?
84. The elevators take forever but you'll wait 10 minutes just so you don't have to climb stairs. If it's more than three stories, yes. Otherwise, no.
85. Your roommate asks you to check the weather on your computer when they're standing 5 feet away from the door.
86. Showers become more of an issue.
87. You press the automatic door opener instead of simply grabbing the handle when you approach a door.
88. Christmas lights seem to be acceptable all year round.
89. Class size doubles on exam days.
90. You donate plasma even though you know it's pretty sketchy. Can't... can't say I've considered it. When my Dad was in college he'd head over to Detroit (from Windsor) and sell his blood, though.
91. You are no longer thankful that fire alarms are here to protect you.
92. You've bought Christmas presents from the book store and charged it to your student account so your parents pay for the gifts because you're too broke.
93. You begin to include ketchup on your list of acceptable vegetables. Ew, ketchup.
94. You stay on campus for hours in between classes when it's too cold to walk home. Too cold and too far away, yeah. Plus, I work on campus so I just go in a grab a few hours of paid job-time if I've got a big break.
95. People have to help you kick the vending machine just so you can get your 50 cent bag of chips.
96. There's always a "question kid" in at least one of your classes, and you really wish someone would just tell him/her to shut the hell up. And more often than not, her name is
naturelf. Sometimes I worry that as the Hermione of the class, everyone else hates me. Other times, I wish the rest of the class would put their damn hands up so I didn't feel obligated to answer the damn questions!97. You steal dishes from the cafeteria so you don't have to wash your own.
98. Laundry is an all-day event. And HOW.
99. You no longer find it uncool to take naps. In fact, you quite enjoy them. Never did find it uncool, but hey.
100. It's illegal to drink in the dorms yet they sell an assortment of shot glasses, beer mugs, tankards, etc. in the bookstore. THOSE are for off-campus use.
101. You find your list of acceptable napping places expanding daily to increasingly uncomfortable locations. But the couch up in the film department reading room? DIVINE.
102. You fill out credit card applications for the free food.
103. You've eaten cereal out of a cup... with a fork. You haven't?
104. Dressing up for Halloween becomes cool again. It always was.
105. You finish reading this and wonder how you can procrastinate next. Dinner time! Then fic, then some Katamari... *eyes English paper that's due Friday*. Quiet, you.
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Date: 2007-03-21 03:58 am (UTC)Also, why wouldn't anyone eat cereal out of a cup with a fork? Well, I'll admit that eating it with chopsticks is more fun (a few of my friends and I went through a phase where we tried to eat everything that dining hall gave us with chopsticks. It made ice cream days very messy, but a lot of fun!), but spoons are just so boring! ;)
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Date: 2007-03-21 01:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-03-21 04:54 am (UTC)If I were my classmate in Sociolinguistics last year, I would have wanted to kill me. Except...everyone else just fucking sat there, so I mean...!
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Date: 2007-03-21 01:33 pm (UTC)BAH. *throws rocks the idiots*
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Date: 2007-03-21 06:24 pm (UTC)There were also plenty of instances when people just didn't use their brains, though, or didn't care enough to. You could have participated in that tutorial just by having attended the lecture and exercising some minimal logic--and tutorial wasn't as bad as lecture for that reason, but there was still a fair amount of those excruciating silences that I found myself filling. Like, excuse me for actually being interested in the class.
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Date: 2007-03-21 07:55 pm (UTC)Strangely (or not) it's usually the older students who participate. Not because we've got More Brains, but because we know this isn't just some form of advanced high school and give a flying whoever about doing more than just passing the class. [/rant]
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Date: 2007-03-21 08:52 pm (UTC)I think you're right about older students. There's the simple maturity factor for sure--seriously, the number of kids who will sit in class and blatantly text message or listen to their iPods? Yikes. (I've been guilty of surreptitious web surfing during class, so I'm not necessarily directing my "yikes" at the ADD-ness in this case, but at the blatantness--I mean, were you raised in a barn?) Also, especially for students who are either coming back to school after an absence or just starting after taking some time to do other things, they're there because they want to be there, not because it's just what they're expected to do. I'm a major proponent of taking time off prior to university for this reason.
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Date: 2007-03-23 01:02 am (UTC)I hate when people are on their computers and not taking notes because I find I start watching them rather than the lecture because the motion catches my eye and *bam*... I'm distracted. And annoyed.
It would be nice if there was a way to force students into taking a year for themselves before heading to school. Or have a maturity test as part of the admissions process, and they can come back when they've grown the heck up.
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Date: 2007-03-21 04:36 pm (UTC)We're not Facebook friends! Time to rectify this.
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Date: 2007-03-21 07:52 pm (UTC)Time to rectify this.
Done and done!