<p>I feel like people don't really do anything for thier birthdays in college and most people don't even know it's a person's birthday. Is this how it is? I'm a transfer and commuter at my college so that's the vibe I get. What do you do for your birthday? Do people know/remember when your birthday is? Do they do anything for you?</p>
<p>I think it just depends on the group of kids. We had a little party here in my res hall a few weeks ago for a girls birthday with snacks and movies and all sorts of stuff. Other times we just decorate dorm doors. Some people go out to party to celebrate. Some people do nothing. </p>
<p>My birthday is in July so I am never at school, except this past summer but since I was a commuter it was just like any other birthday at home. Nobody is going to do anything for you if you don’t live on campus besides maybe invite you out or something if you have friends at school.</p>
<p>I’ve actually seen them celebrated more than when I was in high school. I guess it’s because it’s a lot easier to gather people together and head downtown than it was when no one was in the same place.</p>
<p>D’s school celebrates each student’s b-Day with a card, balloon, and Starbucks gift certificate. In her own group of friends, they have parties with cake and inexpensive presents.</p>
<p>You’d be surprised what Facebook does. My friends and I always plan ahead for someone’s birthday and have some sort of little party.</p>
<p>My RA makes sure everyone’s birthday is celebrated. We always make some kind of food in the kitchen–brownies, cake, cookies, fondue, etc.–for the whole hall to share and sing happy birthday at some point.</p>
<p>OMG, at my school they celebrate birthdays like crazy. Under 21 throw big parties. Over 21 would throw parties then go to the bars !</p>
<p>My friends and I celebrate birthdays, at least a little. Mine is a personal favorite because it’s the week after we get back to school after winter break and people are looking for a little break. We usually just do snacks and a movie.</p>
<p>My friends and I always make a card and we take the birthday girl/boy out to dinner. Pretty much the same as high school.</p>
<p>My friends and I do…</p>
<p>My friends and I always do something, even if it’s just all going to dinner together, or going to see a movie, or going out (if enough people can).</p>
<p>One of our friend’s birthdays is actually the 6th, so we’re all still on break so we feel bad, so I’m currently in the middle of compiling a video of all of us saying why we love her, how much she means to us, etc., since we don’t get to spend the actual day with her. I think she’ll really enjoy it.</p>
<p>I hope so, considering my birthday is on move in day haha</p>
<p>my friends definitely do! This year my 21st birthday was during Thanksgiving break (so I celebrated with my cousins), but the weekend after I had a birthday dinner & then the weekend after that my friends & I threw a big party then went out to the bars. Everyone knows people’s birthdays through facebook.</p>
<p>Students definately celebrate their birthday, but there are also many who do not. On my floor several great students were mistaken and thought it was my birthday and wanted to celebrate it and have fun but after assuring them several times my birthday is in March no one celebrated. So that is from my personal experience, but others have stated to me they basically did nothing, maybe a few gifts, then there are those who will show up at a party and others who may be in a relationship go out on a date. Overall if you celebrate your birthday or not it’s okay.</p>
<p>It depends with each group of students. On my floor in my hall we have a little Birthday Committee that makes a poster for each person and whoever’s around on the floor goes over to the birthday person’s room and sings them happy birthday while giving them the poster.
Other than that, between my closer friends and I on the floor, we bake each other cakes to give along with the poster, and usually grab dinner together or something. Pretty awesome.</p>
<p>We have a poster on the wall of my dorm’s common room for people to write their birthdays on. We have someone in our dorm who worked at a bakery that generally bakes an elaborate cake/pie whenever someone has a birthday. People generally pitch in for drinks and one of the 21+ students will purchase. We have a grand old time.</p>
<p>Depends on the school and how many friends you have. Birthdays are announced on the front menu in the cafeteria, and the cafeteria ladies will bring a cake and sing to you if your friends tell them where you are. Also, your friends/roommates will throw you into the fountain if they remember/care enough. Other than that, not a lot of celebration for most people.</p>
<p>It depends on the school and how many friends you have. I started out in a community college, it was so transient that one semester you get to know everyone and the next semester, you have to get to know a new set of classmates. Since my birthday usually fell in the first week of the spring semester (one time it fell on the first day of class and it was my 21 st. I did not say anything, I felt silly about the idea of acknowledging my birthday to classmates who did not know me very well). I did celebrate with my family that night. We had dinner out. I still had a good birthday. I will never forget when I was in high school, some of my friends got dragged into the shower (fully clothed) on their birthdays in the gym locker room. I saw a girl celebrating a birthday in the school cafeteria have birthday cake smeared all over her face in the cafeteria. Those incidents made me think twice of letting your classmates know it was your birthday. When I transferred to a four year university, I got to know most people. Most people just simply wished you a happy birthday if they knew it was your birthday. Most professors at the schools I have been to did not acknowledged birthdays. If you have a group of friends, you celebrate outside of class. I can see the advantage of having a birthday over the weekend, during school breaks or over the summer because you can do things that you enjoy on your birthday instead of sitting through a lecture, taking a test or studying on your day.</p>
<p>My roommates surprised me with a birthday cake at midnight, and my RA likes to grab a bunch of people from my floor and tell them to meet in front of the birthday person’s room number and sing happy birthday to them (and there’s one female student who apparently likes to dress up as a “birthday fairy” whenever it’s someone’s birthday).</p>
<p>We always decorated our friend’s doors and either went out to eat with them or did something special (like order delivery cookies at midnight).</p>