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You Know You’re in College When: 25 Facts of Life

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Colgate chapter.
  1. When your dignity and standards go home with your parents on freshman move in day
  2. Your clothes are only dirty when they smell
  3. You may or may not have ever washed your sheets
  4. You justify clothing purchases with: I could wear this at a mixer 
  5. You only eat microwavable food 
  6. You do laundry when you run out of underwear 
  7. People pass you and say “you were absurd last night”….Did i see you last night? 
  8. When someone introduces them self and you say “i know” in your head because you know them from facebook 
  9. When you go through your phone sunday morning…enough said 
  10. When you have no idea how to interact with people sober 
  11. When the library is a social scene 
  12. Ugly guys get some 
  13. Prostitution is legal as long as payment is in the form of alcohol 
  14. If you don’t remember it didn’t happen….if you delete the text it didn’t happen
  15. You have to invent a story as to how you hurt yourself when speaking to adults
  16. Face rape is the number one threat to males and females 18-22
  17. Fist fights happen over food…talk about hunger games 
  18. You roll your eyes when someone actually knows whats going on in the world 
  19. The game of sardines now means fitting two people in a twin bed 
  20. Freshmen are responsible for all the worlds evils (jk love ya)
  21. You check three different ATMs only to confirm you do in fact have $0.00…and it was not a mistake 
  22. Candy is a well balanced meal…and so is vodka
  23. You have to smell your water bottles to make sure it is in fact water 
  24. The protocol for hooking up with someone is never speaking to them again 
  25. That awkward silence when your teacher announces a test on a friday morning