You know you're in college when...
 

Ok, you know there are lame/funny things only college students (or maybe those just out of college) will do. What have you got?

You know you're in college when you move empty beer bottles aside to make breakfast.

or when you make hamburger helper without the hamburger.

(Both true for me recently...except I didn't have the necessary milk to make beef stroganoff hamburger helper...)

You know you're in college when you schedule your classes so that you are done by noon on Fridays.

You stop carrying cash because everywhere you eat accepts your stuent ID card for payment.

You skip classes the day before Parents' Weekend so that you can clean it up.

The ATM on campus dispenses in $5 increments (UNC circa 1995, did I just age myself? lol)

The grocery store nearest to you features 20 types of Ramen Noodles but only 5 types of fresh fruit.

When you skip class a lot but come when their are tests and assignments to complete.

When the only thing you care about is the amount of money you get on a refund check.

When you know your school's alma mater by heart!

When you look forward to seeing the yearbook to see if you are in it.

When you can get a haircut, a fesh 'do, and a main/pedi for less than $12.

When Wal-Mart becomes the local "hang out"

When you car-pool to get to the bus station/train station/airport to go home for a "break"

When you are "timing the clock" for 10 minutes for a regular teacher and 15 minutes for a professor

When you know 15 ways to save money on washing clothes BEFORE you ACTUALLY have to wash clothes

When you know how to sleep with your eyes open during a boring lecture

When your eyes know how to go back and forth to watch a professor and take notes without ever having to look down on the paper

When you wait until you're a senior to take gym class

You know you're in college when you have 8 hours straight of class Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday so that you don't have class Thursday and Friday
(true story not from me)

You know you are in college when your 400 person Monday, Wednesday, Friday class only has 50 people in it on Friday morning.

You know you are in college when your refrigerator has more beer cans than actual food.

You know you are in college when the only thing in your refrigerator other than alcohol is ketchup.

You know you are in college when the main coversation his about parties.

You know you are in college when all your money is spent on books you dont want to read.

When you can get stoned and not get busted.

Lol earlier this year I have seen some high school students get busted on high school day for smoking weed. They happened to be from my old high school.

You know you are in college when the male students flirt with the sorority girls more than the cheerleaders.

You know you're in college when see you see the Ramen Cup of Noodles for sale and you buy the whole case.

You know you're in college when you are trading items so that someone else will use their mealcard to pay for your meal.

You know you're in college when even a 10:30am class is hard to wake up for.

You know you're in college when you realize that online classes aren't all they are cracked up to be, nor are they the "easy way" out.

Lol!! I remember last semester I had to buy this high price freshmen composition book so by the end of the semester I sold it back because I wanted a little bit of extra cash. Nobody told me that I would need to book for the second part of freshmen composition so I had to go buy the book again. That really pissed me off.

when the storage area becomes a black light smoke lounge
when you split a handle of Pepe Lopez with some one you just me like a week ago and then run around naked on campus
when you somehow don't get arressted for above activities
when you blast sublime at 3 am but your neighbors don't care because they're feeling your vibe
when you wake up, throw up, go to class, ace the quiz, stumble back, call a pledge to clean up your puke, and then threaten to black ball him for making your hang over worse, then you pass out again
when you get threatened with being charged with opperting a night club illegaly but then a home-made wine making explosion happened and the cop thinks its a gun shot and realizes that a fraternity party isn't that big of a deal in the greater scheme of things (the bike was in the tree when we moved in there, I don't know how that's probable cause for anything)
when you promice yourself you'll stop posting on greekchat once you graduate

When you know the exact amount of an extra value meal at McD's, and can pay for ANYTHING in change. The pizza guy dreads your call, because he knows he's getting a buttload of dimes!!

:D

I didn't buy a Long Island, but I definitely sold my books back for pennies because I needed grocery money.

Definitely paid for a LOT of stuff in change. I was using my laundry quarters so laundry got put on hold, too.

When you pay for a pack of cigarettes in change, and you don't even smoke.

When you see all of your best friends almost every day.

When a room only big enough to fit a twin-sized bed and the world's tiniest desk is acceptable, as long as it's the only single left in the house.

My neighbors sold books for classes they were still in at the time so they could buy kegs for a block party.

I want to know where I can get books that cheap. Mine run average of 160 or so. And I also want to know where you are getting long islands that cheap, I pay at least 6. Not like i drink them anyway cause they taste horrible, but ya get my point.

[quote=nikki1920;1796961]You know you're in college when you schedule your classes so that you are done by noon on Fridays.

Guilty, here. Attending a TGIF keger should have been a valid excuse to miss class. Finally, I stopped taking classes with Friday sessions, too.

---You know you're in college is when the best meal you've had in days is when your dad stops in while at a convention in town and takes you out to dinner, a break from dorm food. (And your roommate and suite mates become part of the dinner party, all treated my dad)
---you know you 're in college when you aren't rescued by your dad and join the line of students fleeing to the fast food places across the street from the dorms, escaping "steak," AKA "mystery meat" night.
---you know you're in college when you try to read 3/4 of an American literature textbook in 2 nights, preparing for finals. Even sitting up all night trying to cram the literature in your head doesn't work--at the final about all you can remember is that there is a lot of stuff written by people now dead.
---you know you're in college when that cashier rings up the total for textbooks that first semester.:eek::eek:$45 to buy a book written by the professor?
---you know you are in college when your wardrobe is worn by just about everyone; and darrn, your favorite skirt looks better on someone else.

Wow, having flashbacks!!!! :D:D:D

When you get your friday dinner at the local bar cause it's TGIF and they serve free food with purchase of pitchers.

My room was so small, the dresser had to be wedged in sideways! Out of season clothing was in the bottom drawer, and I had to slide the bed out to get to it.

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned pizza as a major food group. Hot for dinner or munchies, cold for breakfast.

hahaha, it's because we still do that!

I had a bed that had drawers in the bottom of it, and anything that didn't fit in those drawers had to go in the closets of the room next to me.

Incidentally, that room was quite large, but it didn't have an outside window so it couldn't be used as a bedroom.

Okay, I am the 'go to class eight hours straight so I don't have Friday classes' person. I'm on my second semester with that schedule... and it was great until I got a job that I work 8-5 on Fridays. :(

You know you're in college when you use all your grocery bags as trash can liners.

You know you're in college when you ask if the store you're at offers a student discount with ID.

You know you're in college when you fight over who gets to housesit next = no roomies and free laundry!

Oh man, there's a burrito place in town and I always forget they give student discounts. They usually ask me, but they didn't last time I was there.

I've been out of college a looooooong time, but here goes.

You know you're in college when:

You are flying home to visit the 'rents, and you get to the airport by spending 45 minutes on the T, rather than 10 minutes in a taxi, because the T only costs 85 cents. (I'm dating myself here. :p )

People want to befriend you because you have a car.

You have a friend who looks kinda sorta like you, who will lend you her ID so you can buy booze.

You learn to cook real fast because the cafeteria food makes you barf. (Aramark SUCKS!)

I still do that. :(

Me too - the little plastic ones are perfect for the smaller garbage pails around the house.

^^Guilty. That's just being resourceful.

Road trip = ANYwhere with your friend who has a car

You get excited because there is a 24 hr Wal Mart opening near campus AND you have a car! (True story)

When you use your trunk as a table so you can eat your Ramen noodles.

You know you are at MVSU when..
1. The police let everybody on campus without checking them
2. The mosquitoes (sp) are your next door neighbors
3. You try to stay away from the cafeteria food.
4. When people leave because the school messed up their scholarship money
5. When the football team wins only 2 or 3 games a year.
6. When you run into the same people every single day because the campus is small
7. When everybody leaves off campus for the weekend except the out of state people.

Hmmm..if I repeat, my apologies

You know you are in college when:

1. You take out a student loan and use part of it to pay some bills.

2. Your roomate are from 2 different lifestyles and you can tell by how clean your room is

3. (circa 199X) Going to McDonald's was a treat because you had extra dough.

4. You were too lazy to buy the book so you paid someone on the cheap to copy "the important chapters" and you still managed to pass the class

5.Your warddrobe is almost the same 4 years later as it was when you started school because most of the money you spent went to books.

6. Pop Tart and Ramen noodles were tradeable commodities

7. Somebody on campus had a side hustle (hair cut, bootleg movies and CDs, free cable)

8. Some of your friends bitched and moaned about how much they hated the city that your school was in (yet 10 years later they are not only still here BUT work for said school!)

9. You knew of at least one student who was a stripper.

10. "Hurry up and wait" was the mantra for registration.

11. The word 'free' became you best friend.

!2. After a semester in college, you tell your parents' "Don't treat me like a child, I am in college!". <---- They are paying your tuition

some of this might be repeated..

You know you are in college when..

...everyone asks you when you get your loan money.

...seeing kids with backpacks on a Friday or Saturday night is completely normal :D

...Homecoming isn't about football anymore. It's a day to get smashed.

...your lame excuses work because the professors really don't want to deal with it. "I don't have my homework because it is in my backpack, which is in my car, which I locked my keys in last night"

...you realize night class isn't as great as it sounds. Pro: class once a week Con: class is 3-4 hours long so you skip it

...you know when Jimmy John's is open, how late, the exact price of a sub with or without "pop and chips", and how far they deliver (4th street).

...the sweatpants I wore to class yesterday are the sweatpants I wore to class today, and the ones I wore to bed last night.

...the guy who works the night shift at Kwik Trip recognizes you and your late night Amp.

...empty kegs become chairs or other household items.

...your electricity bill is overdue and they threaten to shut your electricity off in 3 days, and the only reason you decide to pay the bill is because you have a fish tank and you don't want the fish to die.

Very very true.

As for number 9, good times.

WHEN YOU DRINK TOO MUCH AND HAVE TOO MUCH SEX HA HA HA

For serious. Screw the Ramen noodles...I never ate that stuff anywayz...

After a night out, you're scared to look in your wallet to find your receipt or how much cash you're missing that you spent on alcohol the night before.

.... when you buy a new comforter for every new semester (or is this only me)
.... when you resort to cooking pancakes and other breakfast items for dinner
.... when you buy your books with financial aid but sell them on Half.com (cheating the system are we lol)

when the first thing you spend your school money on is different material with the schools name or logo on it

SO did this.

ok I haven't been in college for several years but I remember my time there all too well, plus I was there for a LONG time so ...

when you have a total of 275$ to last you all summer (the only reason you have this much is you sold your books back) and you make it happen (this was 1994 so 275 went a lot farther than it does now)

when you are excited to find quarters in your couch

when you order food and make it last for lunch, dinner and if you are lucky breakfast (if you happen to get up that early)

when you have to pay for all of you parking tickets that you have accumulated for years in order to get your diploma