I stole this from a friends Live Journal because it is freaking awesome and explains college to a T.
1. There are two types of people in college: those who come to party one last time before they have to grow up and those who realize that this is the last time they have to practice being grown up before they are actually expected to do it. Decide early which one you are.
2. Don't touch any member of the opposite sex (or the same sex if that is your preference) for the first two weeks of school. Though this rule mainly applies to hormone driven frosh, upperclassmen also need to realize that summer flings and internship hookups can spread nasty little creepy crawlers to last year's favorite closing time companion.
3. Speaking of freshmen year relationships, they don't lsst. If you are still dating mid-sophomore year, break up and save each other the trouble of finding out that you both are sleeping with the other's best friend/arch nemesis.
4. Inevitably, the person that you dislike the most on campus will sign up to be in the same activities and dorms as you--for all four years. Develop a high pain tolerance and a strong liver early to deal with it. Then, at the bars after graduation, let the evil person get smashed first, then give one strong satisfying punch straight to the nose. Then go out and get drunk to celebrate released aggression.
5. The only people worth worrying about in college are those that prove to give a damn about you...they always call, always invite you to go with them, stop by to see you, or send you mail. All others that only give you lip service? Feel free to talk shit about them behind their backs, they are doing it to you.
6. You can fall in love more than once, either with the same person or with different people. It's ok, it's called growing up and maturing into a person. You change. Just make sure that your definition of love includes more than just, "He sometimes saves a seat for me in the dining hall" or "She always comes home with me on Thirsty Thursday". That is not love, that is lust or just plain desparation.
7. Speaking of lust, you must have at least one big relationship mistake. Why? Because pure physical pleasure is fun, and it gives you something to talk about and remember when relationships get serious and tough in the future. Just taking a minute to remember that you were desirable enough to get that chick to cheat on her now-fiance is pretty damn empowering.
8. Don't hang out with people you don't like. Why waste your time? You hung out with enough people that you didn't like in high school because it was required by teenage social cues. If you don't like a person, a group of people, or the actions that come with affiliation, get the hell away. College is about being who you are, not about trying to find people to be like.
9. Instant messanger is a dangerous weapon that should be used cautiously. Targeted away messages can often ignite profile wars. While funny, they can really screw up your history study group session when Jenny puts Nickelback's new lyrics up in her profile to yell at Bobby and he retaliates with some obscure old rock song that no one knows or understands, thus making Jenny the winner. Then no one cares about why the US entered WWII and you all fail and have to take the class again with the ancient professor who doesn't wear a bra...um...yeah, just be careful with instant messanger.
10. You will have at least one stalker a year. Or you will stalk one person a year, depending on your personality misfunction. So either become really good at changing screennames or really good at finding out new ones.
11. Dining hall food will eat away at your intestines. And you will die.
12. Learn the days and times when your state sells and doesn't sell alcohol. Make a chart of this. Hang it in your room. Hang it in your bathroom. Sell copies to friends. A closed liquor barn after 9 PM on Fridays in November is no one's friend.
13. If you are really good friends with a person, and that person changes into a person that you no longer want to be around, you are not obligated to stay close friends with the person. You liked them for a reason, for who they were. If you no longer like them, then get away from them. Go meet new friends. Don't waste your time with people whom you don't like or don't interest you.
14. At graduation, you will have grouped your classmates into three groups: those people you will miss, those people that you have been planning an Irish jig (regardless of your own personal nationality) of joy to commemorate the fact that you never have to see his/her face or hear his/her voice AGAIN, and then there will be those people that you have no idea where they came from and won't care what happens to them either way, unless they become rich and are every in the position to give you money...
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