Things You Learn In College But Not In Class

Flip flops are year round shoes.

Duct tape heals all.

Showers become less important and sleep becomes more important.

10 minutes is more than enough time to get ready for your first class.

Receiving mail had never been such an ego booster before.

You begin to nap again.

If one of your professors has written a book, it is always required text for his class.

Email becomes your second language.

Ten page papers used to sound impossible...now they are a relief.

You meet the extremes of smart and dumb people and glad you are not one of them.

Your bank accounts best friend is your tuition.

Plain pasta never passed as a whole meal before.

The campus nurse is here because they couldn't get a real job at the hospital.

Care packages rank up there with birthdays and Christmas.

Printers only break down when you desperately need them.

You never thought you would share so much with your roommate after only knowing them for a short period of time.

Disney movies are more than just classics.

Find one thing you like in the dining hall and go with it...all the time.

You will hear/receive more weird nicknames than you ever have before.

Cereal makes a meal anytime of day.

Keep high school research papers...everything can be recycled.

You almost forget how to drive.

Keys have never been so important, yet you seem to lose them more now than ever before.

You learn to sleep with light, noise, extreme temperatures, and roommates snoring.

You get good on rationalizing whether to do homework or not.

Procrastination becomes an art.

Jeans may be worn as many times as the wearer desires.

Going to the grocery store is a big treat.

Classes: the later the better

Care packages make it all worthwhile.

The longer you're there, the less you talk about home.

You don't learn last names.

You are NEVER alone.

It's amazing how late you can stay up doing nothing, but falling asleep in class or the library takes, on average, 2 minutes.

You begin to subdivide your room into sections (kitchen, living room, den, etc) to make sound less like a dorm.

You never realized how quiet your house was.

Your life will never be the same again.