The greatest part of freshman year is being able to use the excuse “I’m a freshman”. It automatically makes whatever faux pas you just committed acceptable and your character will no longer be judged on your stupidity.

As I enter my second year in college, these are the top ten

times I’ll miss using the magic words “I’m a freshman” to save me from humility.

1. When you show up to a house party in a tight skirt andten-inch heels and all the other girls are kicking it casual in shorts and sandals.     

2. Walking into the wrong classroom at the wrong time on the wrong day of the week.  

3. When your parents are yelling at you for ordering $5,000 worth of textbooks before class started and didn’t end up using a single one.  

4. When you’re on the “dance floor” at the bar, because everyone else knows you’re not actually supposed to dance on it.   

5. Eating pizza, fried chicken, hamburgers, pasta and anything else in sight three times a day, even though you have to walk right by the salad bar every time. Or even skipping a meal altogether and just getting soft-serve.   

6. When you forget to turn in an online quiz because the due date “really snuck up on you”.   

7. Thinking you can handle thirty-eight shots of Jose, Jim, or Jack.   

8.Traveling around in excessively large groups and looking more like cattle being herded than college students. 

9. Talking to that boy in the bar that has been around the block a few (74) times and every other girl is giving you her best b**** face. You didn’t know any better!    

10.  When you have an irrational breakdown because you miss your parents or your bed. While you still miss these things all four years, you don’t have a built in excuse after freshman year.