After a long summer, most of us are thrilled to be back on BC’s campus. You’re moving into a new dorm or off-campus house, you’re reunited with your friends, and (hopefully) you’re excited about your upcoming classes. Amidst all of this excitement, you’ll probably also notice a few things around campus that were absent while at home. In fact, some of things will probably even seem weird compared to normal society outside of the BC bubble. Here are a few of the most common nuances found on campus.
1. Prepare yourself for a sea of pastel.
2. In that sea, watch out for the infamous salmon shorts.
3. You’ll spend 24/7 with your best friends.
4. Actually, though, it’s basically a sleepover every night.
5. You’re completely responsible for the most important decisions of the day: what to eat.
6. Your bedroom will mostly likely be very, very small compared to a normal sized bedroom.
7. Regardless of your small bedroom, you will continue to hoard every free t-shirt, flag, pen, or anything else someone tries to give you.
8. You’ll show up at parties even if you don’t know any of the hosts.
9. You can essentially eat pizza at anytime including 2AM, with zero judgment.
10. You’re probably going to be sharing a bathroom with a lot of people.
11. The BC Look Away is a thing again.
12. Even if you’re friends with someone on social media, you’ll probably give them the BC Look Away.
13. Or you’ll receive the BC Look Away and start pretending to text everyone you know in an attempt to save your social reputation.
14. Similarly, you’ll text in awkward situations to avoid small talk, which can really come back to bite you when you realize everyone knows there’s terrible cell reception in the elevators.
15. You’ll watch way more sporting events, even if you don’t like sporting events.
16. Pedestrians seem to always have the right away, even if it really aggravates drivers.
17. There are a lot of boat shoes.
18. Oddly, there are very few boats.
19. You’ll look at your schedule and think you have a lot of free time, and then realize that free time fills up really quickly.
20. Of course, any free time that you do have will probably be spent reading HC BC articles.
Hopefully none of these things are too alarming, and we’ll all be able to resume life as we knew it once we get through the BC Culture Shock. Welcome back to campus!
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