You learn a lot in college, but here are 45 things you learn outside of the classrooms.

1. College is a place where no one really cares what you were in high school.
2. College is wishing you were better prepared for it in high school.
3. College is waiting 18 years to become a grown child.
4. College is making dozens of friends who are genuine.
5. College is worrying about where you’ll end up in life.
6. College is telling you parents that classes are going fine when you’re barely scraping a C.
7. College is reevaluating your future every week.
8. College is skipping one class to catch up in another.
9. College is procrastinating one thing to do another.
10. College is setting four alarms in the morning just to make sure you make it to class.
11. College is having nothing going on in the whole month of March but then drowning in five tests, four group projects, hundreds of homework assignments and jury duty in the month of April.
12. College is being around couples that are talking about the future and you can’t even get your socks to match.
13. College is being around people who all act like they know what their future is, but are just as clueless as you.
14. College is doing everything you can to not buy the textbook for class, even selling your soul.
15. College is where you share your SpongeBob reference to the nearest stranger.
16. College is waking up on a rainy day and deciding that walking to class is too much of a safety hazard.
17. College is learning how to study, even though you thought you knew how to.
18. College is taking a nap for your study break.
19. College is knowing how to flirt with the last seconds of your deadline.
20. College is scheduling naps into your class schedule.
21. College is seeing how far that E on your gas tank will go.
22. College is trusting the people around you and falling asleep in public places.
23. College is pretending to care about your professor’s life so they’ll go easy on your test grade.
24. College is just a never ending cycle of group project karma.
25. College is setting an alarm for 11:58 p.m. to turn in your paper before midnight.
26. College is having class during a blizzard, a hurricane, a solar flare, an alien invasion, and Columbus Day.
27. College is needing more than one reason to go to campus that day, otherwise it’s totally not worth it.
28. College is when you pay an arm and a leg to get a job that will only pay you an arm.
29. College is learning more than one way to make ramen so you don’t get sick of it.
30. College is wondering if there should really be tests during dead week.
31. College is joining every club you can think of, but only having time for one or two.
32. College is never wanting to graduate.
33. College is counting down the days to graduation.
34. College is having an empty wallet the majority of the time.
35. College is grocery shopping at 1 a.m.
36. College is powering through a hangover to make it to class.
37. College is finding a ride, not because you don’t have a car, but because you’re too drunk.
38. College is where your friends call out your alcoholism while they drink a beer.
39. College is spending all of your money on takeout.
40. College is spending the rest of your money at the bar.
41. College is sacrificing your night to sober drive for your friends.
42. College is making the best out of every night spent with good people.
43. College is testing your comfort zone and expanding it.
44. College is learning who you are more and more every day.
45. College is learning you don’t really know as much as you thought you did.