As my first year of college comes to an end, I can say that I have learned a thing or two—or at least my parents will hope so. Some things I learned in the classroom, but to be honest, most of the things I learned were outside of it. Like every college student, we get to encounter a couple of things we didn’t have to before until we started our first year. And, if you decide to not only start college but do it on a different, completely opposite state to the one you were living in, you get to learned and experience a couple of others things too.

Some of the things I’ve learned have been from trial and error. Lots of error. But, let’s be honest, that is the only way we all know how to. Sometimes it was a smart move, sometimes not so much. But hey, live and we learn.

So, here I will leave you 8 things I have learned from my first year at college:

1. If you go to school in a place with cold weather, ALWAYS check the weather in the morning, is never a smart idea to just “wing it”.

2. Home cook meals will become a luxury.

3. There is no such thing as free-time, you just learn to make up your own.

4. You know that if you decide to do nothing one day, you will be doing homework and studying all day, the following day.

5. Most of the time, the classes that take attendance are the ones you do nothing on, but force you to go.

6. If you have a good roommate that you like, your life will be 100 times easier and happier.

7. Early morning classes on Fridays are a terrible idea and you don’t want to do that to yourself.

8. If you don’t see your friend for more than a day or two, it will feel like you haven’t seen them in forever.