<p>I found this super long list somewhere, and I kept the ones I felt were true. Everyone else feel free to contribute:</p>
<li> Quarters are like gold.</li>
<li> Be creative in the dining hall.</li>
<li> Flip flops become as important as soap, shampoo, etc.</li>
<li> Asleep by 2:30 am is an early night. (A regular night)</li>
<li> Make sure your alarm clock has back-up batteries.</li>
<li> Showers become less important.</li>
<li> Sleep becomes more important.</li>
<li> Two meals a day are standard. One for some!</li>
<li> Recycling becomes synonymous with laundry (“Oh, my jeans can last until Christmas…there’s only a <em>little</em> bit of mud on them…”).</li>
<li> 10 minutes is more than enough time to get ready for your first class</li>
<li> Going to the mailbox was never an ego booster/breaker before.</li>
<li> If the lecture hall is big enough, get someone else’s notes.</li>
<li> You begin to nap again</li>
<li> Isn’t it amazing that the book your professor wrote is always required for his class?</li>
<li> E-mail becomes your second language.</li>
<li> Frat parties are exactly like they are in the movies.</li>
<li> You never realized so many people are smarter than you.</li>
<li> You never realized so many people are dumber than you.</li>
<li> See every movie under $3 that your campus provides; it’s actually proportional to the amount of money you have.</li>
<li> Pick up all new lingo.</li>
<li> Bum rides, money, notes and snacks as much as you can get them.</li>
<li> Care packages rank up there with birthdays.</li>
<li> Beware the freshman 15, or in some cases, the freshman cup size.</li>
<li> Even though the beds are long, they are also extra narrow.</li>
<li> Things that were a huge deal in high school are now commonplace.</li>
<li> You never thought you would share so much about yourself with people you have known for such a short time.</li>
<li> Computer games go in and out faster than the latest fashions.</li>
<li> Any game can be made into a drinking game.</li>
<li> Find one thing you like in the dining hall and go with it.</li>
<li> Cereal makes a meal any time of day.</li>
<li> Keep your high school term papers; nowadays, everything is recycled.</li>
<li> You’ll drink anything if it’s free…</li>
<li> You get really good with excuses for skipping class.</li>
<li> Ordering food at 1 am is a common occurance.</li>
<li> Keys have never been so important, yet you seem to lose them
more than ever before</li>
<li> You learn to sleep with light, noise, extreme , and roommates snoring.</li>
<li> People that were geeks in high school seem okay now.</li>
<li> You get good at rationalizing on whether to do homework or not (usually not).</li>
<li> Procrastination becomes an art.</li>
<li> Jeans may be worn as many times as the wearer desires </li>
<li> The only reason you ever dress up is when everything else is dirty.</li>
<li> Classes: the later the better.</li>
<li> Your teachers just went from Mr. and Mrs. to Prof.</li>
<li> Boys will dance in college.</li>
<li> You are NEVER alone.</li>
<li>Printers only break down when you desperately need them</li>
<li>Sweatpants become a wardrobe staple.</li>
<li>Girls are almost as messy as guys. Girls just hide it better.</li>
<li>There is such a thing as a blow-off course.</li>
<li>The first sign of spring and classes become even less of a priority</li>
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<p>Ha! Awesome post! Thanks for sharing! :)</p>
<ol>
<li>There is no difference between the first drink and the last. </li>
<li>Sleeping and eating come second to studying and partying.</li>
<li>There is never enough time in a day.</li>
<li>Printing your 20 page homework from your laptop to the nearby cluster 3 minutes before class is not considered procrastination. </li>
<li>Showering before exams/finals is optional.</li>
<li>Dress shirts are awesome to put on and run out the door as they make you look as if you hadn't taken 3 minutes to get ready for class.</li>
<li>You start hating U.pitt kids for doing nothing all day and partying every night so you make yourself feel better by gathering a bunch of friends all wearing your school's clothes/apparel to walk across their campus on the way to a restaurant.</li>
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129. Dress shirts are awesome to put on and run out the door as they make you look as if you hadn't taken 3 minutes to get ready for class.
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<p>word.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Ugh, sweatpants? more like khaki shorts!</p>
<ol>
<li>School buses are way more fun than they were in elementary school.</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li><p>It's not necessary to go to parties on weekend nights. It's also cool to hang out with your friends on the bed/couch and just watch a movie.</p></li>
<li><p>Your parents actually become your best friends and first source of complaints because you want your friends to think that your life is so much better than theirs. Even though they say they won't support or pay for anything, they do anyway.</p></li>
<li><p>College is a test of how driven you are to keep doing your work even though you're clueless about your grades until the last day of classes when the professor hands out a mid-term exam implying that you really, really need to study and shouldn't have partied in the last month...</p></li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Unlike in high school, where your graduating class stayed fairly constant throughout the four years, people come and go every semester in college, making it more unstable than a major league team during a rebuilding phase.</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>When one person in your dorm gets sick, the rest of your dorm will be sick within a week</li>
<li>Your parents will pay for an amazing amount of stuff, because they realize you're growing up and they won't be able to much longer (my mom payed for almost all the Christmas gifts I gave my family this year...)</li>
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<p>And I absolutely agree that some nights it's a whole lot of fun to just curl up with friends and watch movies</p>
<p>wow this is informative, since ill b a freshman next year.</p>
<ol>
<li>Your hometown is way less fun than you remember it</li>
<li>Facebook is more addictive than meth</li>
<li>You can sleep for a month in the basement of the library</li>
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<p>man khaki shorts... i hate them. :)</p>
<p>Really? It seems to be more reflective on my freshman year than informative.</p>
<p>To all the pre-frosh reading this: go experience it all on your own. Its a lot more fun that way ;)</p>
<p>PS: I'm wearing khaki shorts right now and your comment hasnt made them very happy</p>
<p>uh oh. i sorry shorts. please forgive me.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>actually it turns out they're just mad cause i spilled soap on them</p>
<p>btw everyone else - sorry for hijacking this thread</p>
<ol>
<li>Driving 180 miles for decent coffee is a definite possibility</li>
</ol>
<p>hmm...very interesting & disconcerting thread...</p>
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141. Driving 180 miles for decent coffee is a definite possibility
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<p>I see two possibilities:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>You go to Deep Springs College (in the desert).</p></li>
<li><p>You're an aristocratic snob and/or obsessive coffee lover.</p></li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>8 am is way to early for class</li>
<li>Class hungover sucks but class still drunk is fun</li>
<li>getting pulled over in a fraternity party shuttle is a bad idea</li>
<li>recycling clothes isnt nearly as gross as it once was (laundry is $1.00 to wash and $.75 to dry)</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Facebook is more addictive than meth</li>
</ol>
<p>for real</p>