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37 Things I've Learned Since I Started College

It's quite an experience

Arden Palmquist

Jan 16, 2017

University of Akron

37 Things I've Learned Since I Started College

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As I'm approaching my fourth semester in college, I decided to create a list of things I have learned so far that I never would have learned if I didn't attend my University. So here is the 37 things I have learned since my first day here.

1. A planner is your best friend

2. You binge watch Netflix more than anything

3. First dates still make you nervous no matter what age you are

4. Paper plates... trust me.

5. Toilet paper is not cheap

6. It's good to have an open mind

7. Pizza taste so much better when it's $5

8. It's easy to get behind

9. Professors aren't scary

10. Everyone is obsessed with taco bell

11. One of the best feelings in the world is getting a text from an old high school friend with a silly memory from back home

12. It's better to talk about things than keeping them bottled up

13. Trying new things is scary

14. Getting involved is so important

15. It's hard maintaining a job, staying involved, and school work

16. It's so easy to burn yourself out

17. Your roommates are your people

18. Crafting is actually really fun, I don't know why I hated it before

19. I realized I can't cook like anything... ever

20. You can microwave pasta.

21. Boys are still stupid

22. Girls are still crazy

23. Changing your major more than once is totally normal

24. The dollar menu at Mcdonalds was basically created for college students

25. Coffee becomes an addiction.

26. You can't have a solid sleep schedule

27. You become so much more passionate about shit you didn't care about in high school

28. Your family is everything, including your biggest support system

29. It's okay to feel homesick, college is a big step

30. Everyone is different and it's totally okay

31. You will meet people who are still obsessed with high school

32. Some people eat ramen with a fork and some eat it with a spoon

33. Skipping class is easy to do but the catching up is hard

34. Going Greek was one of the best decisions of my life.

35. There is literally a club for EVERYTHING

36. It's hard but I can get through it.

37. You will lose connections with people from high school. It happens.

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1. When course schedules are released and you have a conflict between two required classes.

2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

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1. When you have to provide an "interesting fact" for your first day ice-breaker.

2. When your professor is babbling on and on in his lecture.

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4. When it's 2 AM and you remember you have a test tomorrow.

5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

6. ...but then you get the test back and somehow passed.

7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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