Here are 21 things every college freshman can relate to during those first few weeks on campus.
Starting college can be exciting, overwhelming, and scary all at the same time. During those first few weeks, while you're still trying to find your way around campus, it might feel like you've got "freshman" written across your forehead. But you won't be the only one feeling that way. Here are some of the things every freshman can relate to during those first few weeks on campus.
1. You spend 30 minutes walking around campus because you can't find your class. When you finally find it, you walk in late sweating, sweating and out of breath from running around, and realize you read your schedule wrong and this class only meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
2. You dress up for class. You're confused (and slightly mortified) when you show up to class on the first day in a dress and full face of makeup, and everyone else is in sweats.
3. You still wear your senior class of 2014 shirt from high school. You know, just trying to represent.
4. You carry a campus map with you everywhere. It's the one they gave you at orientation, and you have your class locations marked on it. You still get lost.
5. You raise your hand to ask your professor if you can use the bathroom during class. It takes some time to get used to this whole F-R-E-E-D-O-M thing.
6. You go "home" every weekend you can. So you can do laundry and catch up with your high school besties (and you secretly kind of miss your parents).
7. You wear flip-flops in the shower. Unfortunately, most freshman dorms have shared showers, which means lugging your shampoo around in a waterproof bucket, showering at weird times if you want hot water, and risking a gross fungal infection if you forget your shower shoes.
8. You scream inside when you realize how expensive books are. How can a BOOK cost $300?
9. You eat Cup Noodles on your bed whenever your roomies aren't around to grab food. You're still too intimidated to enter the dining hall alone.
10. When you do eat in the dining hall, you carry your food on a tray. How else could you balance that slice of pizza, fro yo parfait, and bowl of cereal?
11. You attend every orientation event. Student government ice cream social? Yes. Library pizza party? Of course.
12. You're finished with classes for the day before the rest of the campus even wakes up. Because the only classes left by the time it was your turn to register all started before 10 a.m.
13. You start to drink real coffee for the first time ever. How else will you get through the 300 pages you have to read before your 8 a.m. seminar? No Frappuccino is going to do the trick.
14. You're confused when you check the syllabus and realize you only have to turn in two papers the entire semester. Wait, no homework today? You can get used to this.
15. You roll at least 10 deep to every house party. Basically, you bring the party.
16. You wear your student ID and room key on a lanyard around your neck. They warned you at orientation that if you lost your ID, you'd have to buy a new one. You lose it anyway.
17. You raise your hand to talk in your seminar. And everyone stares at you like something is wrong.
18. You start every story with "Back home…" You don't know yet that soon your college town will be your new home.
19. You awkwardly start every convo with "What's your major?" What else are you supposed to talk about?
20. You wait in line for an hour for a free T-shirt with your school logo on it. Because you have to Instagram a selfie in it, obvi. #college
21. You fit half your life in five drawers. The rest is stuffed under your bed in space-saving bags your parents bought you.
What other telltale signs would you add to the list? Tell us in the comments!
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