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9 Ways College Students Are Pretty Much Little Kids

We have more in common with kids than adults, and we're almost adults.

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9 Ways College Students Are Pretty Much Little Kids
Kristin Johnston

We're supposed to be well on our way to adulthood, except we have more in common with small children than most working adults. But kids are more fun anyway so let's stay a little youthful and keep dribbling toothpaste on our shirts before we leave for class and just pretending like it will magically disappear.

1. Eating too many chicken nuggets and mac & cheese

They eat chicken nuggets for lunch and we eat them for a 2 AM snack. Same difference. Mac & cheese will forever be the easiest meal, next to cereal or ramen so it’s always an option.

2. Playing board games

Board games are awesome! Anyone who says differently can have their mom come pick them up because they’re uninvited to the slumber party. Ok, we don’t typically have slumber parties anymore but we do stay up playing board games until horrid hours of the morning when it gets cold outside.

3. Car games on road trips

Punch buggy is so juvenile, but counting farm animals or playing Zitchdog is much more sophisticated. Regardless, we all get bored and need something to do in the middle of nowhere.

4. Being severely over-prepared for road trips in the snacks department

We all enjoy snacks and neither of these groups of people is ever fully prepared but at least we’ll have goldfish, pretzels, juice, popcorn and more if we break down somewhere.

5. Not caring what you look like or if you’re wearing all one color

Groutfits are in. Ok, they’re really not, but that doesn’t stop any of us from wearing them. The same way it didn’t stop any of us from wearing all purple everything in elementary school.

6. Counting your money before you buy anything

We don’t pull the plug out of the bottom of our piggy bank and watch the coins drop out but that might be more exciting than actually checking our bank accounts.

7. Watching children’s movies

Sometimes adult movies get too dull and address a real issue, when we really just want to sit on the floor, mind-numb, and watch Moana singing to her chicken.

8. Spilling anything and everything on yourself

The difference is the substances we’re spilling on ourselves consist of coffee or queso rather than apple juice and ranch. On second thought, ranch is still applicable. What’s stayed the same is that we wipe it off and continue on with our day as if we don’t have a giant stain in the middle of our shirt or all over our pants.

9. Taking naps

We all get cranky without them. The only difference is that we can’t wait until naptime whereas children despise it for whatever ridiculous reason.


A few of these hit really close to home but we're going to accept it, embrace it and continue being grown-up children because we're doing the best we can at this point.

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