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10 Signs You're The Modern Day College Student You Probably Avoided Becoming

Welcome to the dark side.

Skyler Waugh

Oct 15, 2018

UNC Greensboro

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As we enter college, we all hope (especially our parents) to leave our childhoods in the past and leave the 4 (ish) years as a better and more mature version of ourselves. We start our new journey all bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, and full of hopes and dreams of becoming our best selves. But no one tells us about the long, messy, and often embarrassing process it is to grow up. So grab your third RedBull of the day and throw on your favorite Nike shorts because here are 10 signs you've crossed to the dark side.

1. Your personal hygiene becomes questionable.

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Dry shampoo and baby wipes become your new best friend.

2. Coffee runs through your veins.

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Not blood, just a constant flow of iced white chocolate mocha with many shots of espresso.

3. You know ~all~ the student discounts.

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Go get those discounts you and your bank account deserve, girl!

4. You rotate the same three outfits.

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Nike shorts, XL t-shirts, and Converse high tops. Sound about right?

5. You become a master of ballin' on a budget.

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"Hi sorry, before you run my card can you just give me like one minute so I can check my bank account?"

6. Your cooking skills are limited to microwaves and Uber Eats.

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We can blame it on our lack of money, time, and skills.

7. Your newfound ability to nap anywhere at anytime.

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It's a superpower, really.

8. Your only workouts consist of sprinting to class after you overslept your alarm once again.

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Try doing it with a venti PSL in one hand and your Scantron in the other. No one can tell me that's not athletic.

9. You quickly become desperate for quick cash.

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Your standards are somewhere in between selling plasma and gambling. Things turn into a gray area really quickly.

10. Your social interactions become revolved around Twitter and cheap beer.

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After a long week full of adulting, grab your BFF's; a cheap beer, and relax.

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10 Signs You're The Modern Day College Student You Probably Avoided Becoming

Welcome to the dark side.

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1. Your personal hygiene becomes questionable.

2. Coffee runs through your veins.

3. You know ~all~ the student discounts.

4. You rotate the same three outfits.

5. You become a master of ballin' on a budget.

6. Your cooking skills are limited to microwaves and Uber Eats.

7. Your newfound ability to nap anywhere at anytime.

8. Your only workouts consist of sprinting to class after you overslept your alarm once again.

9. You quickly become desperate for quick cash.

10. Your social interactions become revolved around Twitter and cheap beer.

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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.

3. When you edit your friend's paper and they get an A.

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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