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You Know You're A College Student When

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You Know You're A College Student When
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You Know You're A College Student When:

-You live in darkness for the first two weeks of school because everyone has already blew all of their money on books to even think about buying a lamp

-You finally save enough money to get lights and they are the Christmas ones

-You sit on the counter and extreme coupon with your roomies

-You carpool to school because if one of you gets caught without a parking pass, you go down together

-You buy a stereo for your apartment/dorm

-You invest in the 90-count pizza roll bag

-You have every restaurant that delivers around you on speed dial

-You are very frugal with your grocery shopping

-You walk into your first day of classes twenty minutes early

-You hide snacks in your room so you can eat however much you want without being judged

-You call your mom every day

-You take your trash out at least twice a day

-You pass the mall every day and have to ask yourself if starving is a better option

-You walk over to your neighbors place to ask them for ketchup in your newest I just woke up look

-You talk about your mom even at parties

-People you don't know walk into your apartment and act like it is their home

-Your class started at 9 and you woke up at 9:05

-You need a job to pay your bills, but one that does not schedule you on football weekends

-You can go literally anywhere without seeing someone you hate (unless you are bad with people, then you might)

-You track every payment you make so that the next time you can tell yourself that you do not need that box of donuts, rather than you're late night study session did

-You change your outfit three times a day

-You do your makeup at least twice a day

-You own 74093284 chokers

-You know every day of the week as a theme

-Netflix is your best friend

-Cable is not your best friend

-You are eating ramen and raw macaroni and cheese as a midnight snack

-You have a tapestry hung above your bed

-You have a whole new perspective on using dishes

-Even if you don't like coffee, you drink it every morning

-You get ready for class in 0.5 seconds

-You ask for discounts at every store you go to

-You ask if you being a college student will get you anything free

-Your bedside is stocked with advil and tums

-A 2 A.M. bedtime qualifies as an "early night"

-In each class, at least one guy is wearing his hat backwards

-It seems like people think hickeys are socially acceptable even though they are still gross

-You see a girl with bed head and sweatpants tucked in her rain boots and that suddenly sounds like a perfectly normal outfit to you

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