If your experience was anything like mine, APUSH was one of, if not the most, significant class you went through in high school. It was the class with the most similar demands to college classes, and that means once you get to college you’re constantly thinking back to it, and maybe even still patting yourself on the back for making it. If you know anyone else who went through the class, there is already a bond formed. Here are some things you just might do if you survived and made it to the other side.
1. Randomly overshare weird and intensely detailed historical facts
Is it bad if people know you as that one girl at that party who talked for twenty minutes about how William Henry Harrison could have been the best president if he had the chance? Of course not.
2. Already have study skills and academic stamina covered
Staying up until 3AM to read 50 pages and write two essays? You’ve got it down. You know exactly how much coffee you need, what blanket you’re most productive under, and the best brand of highlighter to pick out the information you’ll most definitely need to know the next day.
3. Still talk about that one question on the exam that confused everyone
You’ve made friends by complaining about the short essay question that almost completely stumped you when you took the exam two years ago. Almost everyone can relate to that fear.
4. Know too much about the one historical period your teacher was obsessed with
The one time the professor asked if anyone knew what the Gilded Age was, or if they knew who Mother Jones could be, your hand shot up because you somehow remembered everything.
5. Take upper-level American History classes just because you know they’ll be easy
Even if you’re a creative writing, interior architecture, or biology major, you’ll find the chance to fill any and all gen-eds possible with history courses.