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Why College Girls are Just Like The Grinch

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at BU chapter.

Love him or hate him, he’s a classic Christmas character who you have more in common with than you think! Here’s why…

You take advantage of free stuff no matter when where or what it is

You know you’re suave at “the game”

Tonight in the dining hall…and every other night…

This is as close as you get to alcohol

What your plans look like at the beginning of the day

What your plans look like at the end of the day

When your mom decides to transfer extra money to your bank account because you’ve spent it all on “school books” and “binders for class”

When you’ve made your fourth trip to the dining hall and it isn’t even 2pm yet

Your struggle every morning before lecture and every evening before going out

Your conclusion after trying on every single item in your closet

When you find out the BU bus schedule actually isn’t accurate and the bus actually isn’t coming

You after experiencing your first frat party (because it isn’t actually as cool and fun as in the movies)

When your professor praises your intellectual comment in front of everyone in class

You all day every day

Noticing your roommate vacuumed your dorm room floor for you

Going through your old high school yearbook…

And get to that one know-it-all kid

When you’re drunk at a party and suddenly realize how soon Christmas is

When you hear someone talking about discounts around the corner   

When you finally sign up for Netflix

When you find your roommate left extra food in the fridge

What you feel like saying when your RA walks into your room

You’ve thought about becoming a full time stripper at one point in your life if college fails

Because you know you should go out tonight but you’d rather stay in bed and stalk peoples’ Instagrams and eat candy from the CityCo

You and your friends entering the dining hall

You’re great at the memoir section in the required writing classes

When you think you’ll somehow find a way to stop your final exams from coming but then you realize you can’t (and they’re actually a real thing that are about to screw up your life)

When you realize one of your required courses for next semester is an 8 am lecture

All your friends get care packages but you don’t

You wait until the last minute for Christmas shopping

Communicating with your friends on the other side of campus

When you realize you’re not Dean Elmore (the equivalent to Beyonce for non-BU students)

When you realize, someone actually dressed up for class and you didn’t

When a sales associate doesn’t let you return a dress you bought for one night because the tag is missing

When you realize everyone else has decorated their dorm room for Christmas but you haven’t

When you actually FOR ONCE see a cute guy on campus and fall instantly in love

How you feel when you don’t get IDd at a bar or club

When you realize Freshman 15 is ACTUALLY a real thing

When the alcohol finally kicks in at a party and you’re suddenly having the best night of your life

You will ALWAYS find an excuse not to go to FitRec

Deep down, no matter how grinchy you are, you love Christmas more than any other time of the year

Roxanne is a 21-year old Boston University student from Düsseldorf, Germany, who is majoring in Film & TV and is currently completing a semester in Los Angeles, California.
Writers of the Boston University chapter of Her Campus.