So we’ve all made it through fall quarter/semester/trimester, whatever it is you want to call it, of college. Maybe it’s not your first term of college, but it was mine, and LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING, no one exactly TOLD me just how different this crap was going to be. So for all of you high schoolers, you best be listening.

1. You actually need that useless piece of paper they give you at the very beginning of the year.

Yeah, you know what I’m talking about; the syllabus.

2. Missing one class is NOT THE SAME THING.

(Dear God, especially if you’re on a quarter system)

3. The food isn’t really that bad.

The first 10 times you eat the SAME THING. At least in high school, you go home. You have your mom make you some food. It’s all Gucci. NOT ANYMORE.

4. Saying “I was up late last night” no longer means just 12-1 a.m.

It means I went to bed two hours ago and I’m dying. BRING ME COFFEE OR RED BULL……OR BOTH. I NEED BOTH.

5. Getting all of your homework done is an absolute flippin’ miracle.

The amount of work you actually have to do for one class is enough to take up that one or two-day gap between classes.

6. Your best friends are probably going to be the ones you study with.

Because come finals week, y’all are gonna get pretty darn close.

Nope just passed out from exhaustion. Need more coffee.

7. BOYS! GIRLS!

Everyone was all about parties and "hooking up" in high school but in college, it’s a cesspool of hormones all crammed into one space, so it’s on a whole new level. The sexual tension is palpable.

8. “Have any of you done a lap report before?” “Yes? In Chemistry your sophomore year of high school? Okay. Then you’re fine.”

This isn’t just for lab reports. This is for those essays, too. Instead of outlining and sitting in class and actually telling you what they want in the lab report or essay, your professor will hand you a vague rubric and wish you the best of luck. It’s like teaching someone to swim but instead of easing them in, you’re throwing them in the pool and screaming, “LEARN!”

Let's also say he can't swim. This is a much more accurate depiction.

9. There is no such thing as “yeah I don’t do any work or go to class but I still get A’s.”

Not possible. At least not that I’ve seen. I mean, maybe if you have a photographic memory and you can just take a quick snapshot of each page of the textbook in your head. In that case, I very much dislike you.

10. If you don’t exercise on a regular basis, that’s okay.

Your exercise for the week will be being late to class or being on time to class, realizing you completely forgot something, running back to get that something, and then being late.

11. You're going to find yourself saying, "I can't, I'm broke" a lot.

Whether your parents are giving you money, on a budget no doubt, or you have money saved up from a job, there just never seems to be enough of it. And you thought you liked free stuff before

12. You’re not with the same people you’ve been with for the past 9 years or whatever.

Which is a good thing! You can be a different person and you can be this person with all new and amazing people that you meet. That’s the wonderful thing.

Because of course when I look for a "slay" gif, the entire page is Beyonce.

In all seriousness, it's not that bad towards the end of the term. You have to get into this "groove" and get used to your routine. You can't sweat everything that happens because we're literally all in the same boat trying to figure out what the hell we're supposed to be doing.

The good news is, we figure it out eventually.