While college is the best time of your life, there are some things that just aren't fun like showering in dorm bathrooms or eating Newcomb food. However, these 15 aren't just not fun, they're *the worst.*
1. Having an 8 a.m.
Going to class is bad enough, but 8 a.m.s are the worst. Just when you think you've left your high school schedule behind, you're stuck getting up at 6:30 and walking across campus with the other three people who are awake at this time.
2. Rain
Rain is nice and good and cleansing, but seriously rainy days in college are horrible. You spend your day tromping around in rain boots, desperately trying to keep your backpack dry and failing every time. You're freezing outside, but sweating inside and all of the floors are slick and wet from people walking all over the place. Not fun.
3. Snow
Snow is rain's (not-so) ugly stepsister. While snow is beautiful, it's pretty inconvenient when you have to walk everywhere you go. Not to mention cold. If it's going to snow, it had better snow me in so deep that my classes are canceled.
4. Class running late
Classes running over is an annoying thing that probably happens at least once a week to the average college student. While it isn't the end of the world, it does make getting to your next class (or beating everyone else to the dining hall at lunchtime) kind of difficult.
5. Doing laundry
OK, so this one isn't really horrible either, but still, it kind of gets in the way. Putting clothes in the washing machine isn't a problem, changing them to the dryer is no biggie, but folding them and putting them away takes up a lot more time than most students have.
6. Assignment overload
I will never forget my hardest week of college yet. It was the second semester of my first year and I had an 8-page paper, a 5-page paper, a take-home quiz, an in class quiz, a test, and a reading response all due in the same week. Fun times.
TL;DR – assignment overload is the actual worst thing that can happen to a student
7. Tour groups
There's nothing quite like being late to class because you got stuck behind a group of slow walking high schoolers and their parents who thought it would be okay to take up the whole main sidewalk while following their overly-enthused student guide.
8. Having to go to office hours
Yes, I know that office hours are helpful and a good thing to do, but honestly, who has the extra time to consistently devote to going?
9. One-credit classes
One-credit classes are the biggest lie since Watergate. They are not and will never be just one credit's worth of work
10. Stairs
Does anyone really like going up stairs? No. Especially not with a 10-20 pound backpack on.
11. Oversleeping
Oversleeping sucks whether you're a college student or not, but at least other people can drive places instead of having to awkwardly run with a backpack on.
12. Night classes
Not finishing classes until sometime after 6 p.m.? No, thanks.
13. Friday classes
You're *almost* free, but not quite.
14. Finals
Does this even need explaining?
15. Grocery shopping
To quote a text I recently sent my mom: "grocery shopping is expensive and I hate it."
If you're reading this on a rainy day as a way to put off one of the ten million things you have due this week and dreading having to go get food later, just know that you're not alone.
