You know you're in college when...

[DaemonSeid]

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

[AXOamor]

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

...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.

[moe.ron]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

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.

Very very true.

As for number 9, good times.

[KSig RC]

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

[Munchkin03]

Originally Posted by KSig RC

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...

[nate2512]

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.

[psychdesire]

.... 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)

[Smile_Awhile]

Originally Posted by psychdesire

.... when you buy your books with financial aid but sell them on Half.com (cheating the system are we lol)

SO did this.

[deltadevil]

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

[agzg]

You live off campus but you beg your parents for a meal plan anyway because you want to spend your food money on alcohol.

[nikki1920]

You forget that real phone numbers have 7 or 10 digits, not five. (This was pre-cell phones.)

DAYUM, I feel old as hell typing/reading that.. lol

[agzg]

Originally Posted by nikki1920

You forget that real phone numbers have 7 or 10 digits, not five. (This was pre-cell phones.)

DAYUM, I feel old as hell typing/reading that.. lol

No I know what you mean - we all had cell phones but used dorm phones a lot and they were all four digit numbers.

Guys at parties would ask for your number and you'd say "7707" or something similar.

People would get confused when they asked for my office number and I'd only give them the four digits. Either they forgot that I worked on campus, or they would be calling from off campus and would need all 10!

[Munchkin03]

Originally Posted by nikki1920

You forget that real phone numbers have 7 or 10 digits, not five. (This was pre-cell phones.)

DAYUM, I feel old as hell typing/reading that.. lol

Don't feel old! When I started college, very few people had cell phones so we all used the campus phones. It wasn't until after 9/11 that people at my college started getting cell phones en masse.

[aephi alum]

Originally Posted by nikki1920

You forget that real phone numbers have 7 or 10 digits, not five. (This was pre-cell phones.)

DAYUM, I feel old as hell typing/reading that.. lol

I guess I'll be joining you in the senior citizens' section. We had five-digit extensions too.

One evening during my graduate year, my phone rang. It was some undergrad soliciting money for donations. She started out with, "For a generous $250 donation you can blah blah blah..."

I cut in: "I am a grad student. You know I'm a grad student because YOU CALLED MY DORMLINE. I DON'T HAVE TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS."

She then tried to convince me to make a smaller donation because "any donation, no matter how small, counts toward your class's participation numbers." But the damage was done: No donation from me that year.

In retrospect, I guess I was kinda rude, but she pissed me off by just assuming that someone who graduated less than six months ago (grad student or not) would just have $250 laying around.

[lovespink88]

Originally Posted by aephi alum

In retrospect, I guess I was kinda rude, but she pissed me off by just assuming that someone who graduated less than six months ago (grad student or not) would just have $250 laying around.

hijack

In her defense, it may not have been HER who thought recent grads had money to give, it was probably her manager or whoever was running the fundraiser. I can't tell you how many times I've been yelled by people we called just because I was doing my job correctly and following the script.

But I totally agree with you about the recent grads thing. I hated when we had to call recent graduates! I always felt bad asking them for money. It's like, these people JUST graduated! These people are probably just starting to make money, and I'm sure that's going towards more important things like student loans, living situations, etc...I could never understand why we didn't change our first ask amount from $200 to like $25 for recent grads...it just made no sense.

So glad I quit that job.

//endhijack