The fall semester of college is quickly approaching, and first time college students are probably going nuts about their parents running around waving packing lists like Paul Revere with his lantern, shouting "COLLEGE IS COMING! COLLEGE IS COMING!" The freshmen have their own concerns, though: What is college like? Never fear, younglings, master comic writer Sarah Andersen has written plenty of webcomics on the topic. Her comics show just how terribly awful - but somehow still humorous - college can be. Here are ten times Sarah's Scribbles accurately portrayed what college is like.
Monday: last day of the weekend, perfect for relaxing and pretending classes don't start tomorrow.
"I payed for college MYSELF with my own JOB! It's not like the minimum wage hasn't gone up proportionally with the cost of college, haha!" - Generation X
Stop and smell the roses, only when there isn't any incoming traffic or horrific amounts of homework.
Printers are the devil. They can smell fear.
Your dorm will never be cleaner than it is during finals week.
All you will want is to be comfy. But crippling societal pressures won't let you. It's a cruel world.
You will learn to hate all of these things.
You will master procrastination - and lying to yourself. And others.
Stress will become an ever-existing nightmare, but it's okay. You'll get used to it.
It isn't the real world, no matter what adults tell you. You'll never want to leave.