<p>You know you’re in college when…</p>
<li>High school started before 8am, but now anything before noon is considered “early."</li>
<li>You have more beer than food in your fridge.</li>
<li>Weekends start on Thursday.</li>
<li>6am is when you go to sleep, not when you wake up.</li>
<li>You know many different ways to cook ramen noodles or macaroni and cheese.</li>
<li>The health center gives out free condoms, and people take them… just in case.</li>
<li>Instead of falling asleep in class, you stay in bed.</li>
<li>You know how late McDonald’s, Taco Bell, Qdoba, etc. are open.</li>
<li>You think it’s the weekend on a Wednesday and you don’t know what month it is.</li>
<li>You can’t remember the last time you washed your car.</li>
<li>Your underwear/sock supply dictates your laundry schedule.</li>
<li>You check Facebook/Myspace more than once a day.</li>
<li>You get drunk dialed on any night of the week.</li>
<li>You wash dishes in the bathroom sink.</li>
<li>You’ve fallen off a loft bed.</li>
<li>You talk about beer pong like it’s a sport.</li>
<li>Finding random people in your house is perfectly normal, and you even sympathize with them… sometimes when you wake up you have no idea where you are.</li>
<li>Your primary news sources are the Daily Show and the Colbert Report.</li>
<li>You open a beer at 10 am and your roommate asks you if there’s more.</li>
<li>The standard of meals per day falls to two, sometimes just one.</li>
<li>Your trash is overflowing and your bank account isn’t.</li>
<li>You go to Target or WalMart more than 3 times a week.</li>
<li>You wear the same jeans for 13 days without washing them.</li>
<li>Your breakfast consists of a coke or cereal bar on the way to class… anything with caffeine will do.</li>
<li>Quarters are like gold.</li>
<li>Your idea of feeding the poor is buying yourself some ramen noodles.</li>
<li>You live in a house with three couches, none of which match.</li>
<li>You try to study but seem to procrastinate by eating, going to study breaks, talking to people, etc…</li>
<li>You talk to your roommate on instant messenger when you’re both home.</li>
<li>You ask people what YOU did last night.</li>
<li>Certain things are now deemed “facebook worthy.” When friends take pictures of you, you wonder how long it will take them to post them.</li>
<li>You’ve seen a hit and run involving a bicyclist/pedestrian.</li>
<li>You see people you know you’ve met but can never remember their names or how you know them.</li>
<li>You sleep more in class than in your room</li>
<li>Your idea of a square meal is a box of Pop-Tarts.</li>
<li>You’ve traveled with bags of dirty clothes.</li>
<li>You go home to do your laundry because you’re too poor to pay the $2… or too lazy to go to a change machine.</li>
<li>You pay $100 for a book you don’t read once, return it four months later, and get $7.</li>
<li>More than 20% of your household furnishings are made from milk crates.</li>
<li>You recognize the meat in the dorm soup as yesterday’s meatloaf, and thus decide to eat a nice bowl of cereal - a safe bet for any meal.</li>
<li>You use words like “thus” (see #40).</li>
<li>You throw out bowls and plates because you don’t feel like washing them.</li>
<li>Your beer pong table is nicer than all your other tables.</li>
<li>It takes preparation… and 3 people… to take out your garbage.</li>
<li>Going to the library is a social event.</li>
<li>You wear flip flops in the shower your freshman year… you know why.</li>
<li>You start joining clubs because of the free food.</li>
<li>Visits home depend on how much money you have for gas.</li>
<li>You skip one class to write a paper for another.</li>
<li>You have no idea where your tuition money is going… technology fees? I think not.</li>
<li>Bicycles don’t seem as lame as they did in high school.</li>
<li>You stay up late to finish homework then sleep through the class in which it was due.</li>
<li>Girls: You’ve balanced your foot on a shampoo bottle to shave.</li>
<li>Your backpack is giving you scoliosis.</li>
<li>You’ve written a check for 45 cents or stopped to get $2.00 of gas.</li>
<li>Your bill in the bookstore will be comparable to tuition.</li>
<li>Going to the mailbox becomes an ego booster/breaker.</li>
<li>Most of your T.A.s are foreign…what’s the deal?</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>Western Europe could be wiped out by a terrible plague and you’d never know, but you can recite the last episode of your favorite show verbatim.</li>
<li>Care packages rank right up there with birthdays.</li>
<li>You craft ways to make any game into a drinking/stripping game.</li>
<li>You meet the type of people you thought only existed in movies.</li>
<li>Printers break down only when you desperately need them.</li>
<li>Anything can be cooked in a microwave.</li>
<li>Two words: bike cops.</li>
<li>You have Safe Ride programmed into your phone.</li>
<li>Old school Nintendo… and guitar hero… are pretty much the best things ever.</li>
<li>Going to the grocery at midnight is completely normal.</li>
<li>You call restaurants that deliver more than you call your own family.</li>
<li>You’ve paid bills over $5… in coins.</li>
<li>You can’t imagine life without your computer/cell phone/ ipod.</li>
<li>Hoodies and sweatpants become the norm - jeans are considered “dressy” at certain occasions… like school.</li>
<li>A canceled class is almost as exciting as Christmas.</li>
<li>Taking a nap in the library is perfectly acceptable.</li>
<li>Your professors speak English… as a second language.</li>
<li>Your teachers swear in class and no one cares.</li>
<li>Candles in your dorm room are considered contraband, but cigarettes are ok.</li>
<li>You take condiment packets and napkins from fast food restaurants - hey, they’re free.</li>
<li>Betta fish are like your family.</li>
<li>You bring back socks from the laundry room that may or may not be yours.</li>
<li>You know what people carrying suspiciously heavy backpacks after dark are doing…</li>
<li>The elevators take forever but you’ll wait 10 minutes just so you don’t have to climb stairs.</li>
<li>Your roommate asks you to check the weather on your computer when they’re standing 5 feet away from the door.</li>
<li>You finish reading this and wonder how you can procrastinate next.</li>
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