*1. High school started before 8am, but now anything before noon is considered “early”.<\/p>\n
2. You have more beer than food in your fridge.<\/p>\n
3. Weekends start on Thursday.<\/p>\n
4. 6am is when you go to sleep, not when you wake up.<\/p>\n
5. You know many different ways to cook ramen noodles or macaroni and cheese.<\/p>\n
6. The health center gives out free condoms, and people take them? just in case.<\/p>\n
7. Instead of falling asleep in class, you stay in bed.<\/p>\n
8. You know how late McDonald’s, Taco Bell, Qdoba, etc. are open.<\/p>\n
9. You think it’s the weekend on a Wednesday and you don’t know what month it is.<\/p>\n
10. You can’t remember the last time you washed your car.<\/p>\n
11. Your underwear\/sock supply dictates your laundry schedule.<\/p>\n
12. You check Facebook\/Myspace more than once a day.<\/p>\n
13. You get drunk dialed on any night of the week.<\/p>\n
14. You wash dishes in the bathroom sink.<\/p>\n
15. You’ve fallen off a loft bed.<\/p>\n
*16. You talk about beer pong like it’s a sport.<\/p>\n
17. Finding random people in your house is perfectly normal, and you even sympathize with them… sometimes when you wake up you have no idea where you are.<\/p>\n
*18. Your primary news sources are the Daily Show and the Colbert Report.<\/p>\n
19. You open a beer at 10 am and your roommate asks you if there’s more.<\/p>\n
20. The standard of meals per day falls to two, sometimes just one.<\/p>\n
21. Your trash is overflowing and your bank account isn’t.<\/p>\n
22. You go to Target or Wal-Mart more than 3 times a week.<\/p>\n
*23. You wear the same jeans for 13 days without washing them.<\/p>\n
24. Your breakfast consists of a coke or cereal bar on the way to class… anything with caffeine will do.<\/p>\n
25. Quarters are like gold.<\/p>\n
26. Your idea of feeding the poor is buying yourself some ramen noodles.<\/p>\n
27. You live in a house with three couches, none of which match.<\/p>\n
28. You try to study but seem to procrastinate by eating, going to study breaks, talking to people, etc…<\/p>\n
*29. You talk to your roommate on instant messenger when you’re both home.<\/p>\n
30. You ask people what YOU did last night.<\/p>\n
*31. Certain things are now deemed “Facebook worthy.” When friends take pictures of you, you wonder how long it will take them to post them.<\/p>\n
*32. You’ve seen a hit and run involving a bicyclist\/pedestrian.<\/p>\n
33. You see people you know you’ve met but can never remember their names or how you know them.<\/p>\n
34. You sleep more in class than in your room<\/p>\n
35. Your idea of a square meal is a box of Pop-Tarts.<\/p>\n
36. You’ve traveled with bags of dirty clothes.<\/p>\n
37. You go home to do your laundry because you’re too poor to pay the $2… or too lazy to go to a change machine.<\/p>\n
*38. You pay $100 for a book you don’t read once, return it four months later, and get $7.<\/p>\n
39. More than 20% of your household furnishings are made from milk crates.<\/p>\n
40. You recognize the meat in the dorm soup as yesterday’s meatloaf, and thus decide to eat a nice bowl of cereal – a safe bet for any meal.<\/p>\n
41. You use words like “thus” (see #40).<\/p>\n
42. You throw out bowls and plates because you don’t feel like washing them.<\/p>\n
43. Your beer pong table is nicer than all your other tables.<\/p>\n
44. It takes preparation… and 3 people… to take out your garbage.<\/p>\n
45. Going to the library is a social event.<\/p>\n
46. You wear flip flops in the shower your freshman year… you know why.<\/p>\n
*47. You start joining clubs because of the free food.<\/p>\n
48. Visits home depend on how much money you have for gas.<\/p>\n
49. You skip one class to write a paper for another.<\/p>\n
*50. You have no idea where your tuition money is going… technology fees? I think not.<\/p>\n
*51. Bicycles don’t seem as lame as they did in high school.<\/p>\n
52. You stay up late to finish homework then sleep through the class in which it was due.<\/p>\n
53. Girls: You’ve balanced your foot on a shampoo bottle to shave.<\/p>\n
54. Your backpack is giving you scoliosis.<\/p>\n
55. You’ve written a check for 45 cents or stopped to get $2.00 of gas.<\/p>\n
56. Your bill in the bookstore will be comparable to tuition.<\/p>\n
57. Going to the mailbox becomes an ego booster\/breaker.<\/p>\n
58. Most of your T.A.’s are foreign…what’s the deal?<\/p>\n
*59. You never realized so many people are smarter than you.<\/p>\n
*60. You never realized so many people are dumber than you.<\/p>\n
61. Western Europe could be wiped out by a terrible plague and you’d never know, but you can recite the last episode of your favorite show verbatim.<\/p>\n
*62. Care packages rank right up there with birthdays.<\/p>\n
63. You craft ways to make any game into a drinking\/stripping game.<\/p>\n
*64. You meet the type of people you thought only existed in movies.<\/p>\n
65. Printers break down only when you desperately need them.<\/p>\n
66. Anything can be cooked in a microwave.<\/p>\n
67. Two words: bike cops.<\/p>\n
68. You have Safe Ride programmed into your phone.<\/p>\n
69. Old school Nintendo… and guitar hero… are pretty much the best things ever.<\/p>\n
70. Going to the grocery at midnight is completely normal.<\/p>\n
71. You call restaurants that deliver more than you call your own family.<\/p>\n
72. You’ve paid bills over $5… in coins.<\/p>\n
73. You can’t imagine life without your computer\/cell phone\/ i-pod.<\/p>\n
74. Hoodies and sweatpants become the norm – jeans are considered “dressy” at certain occasions… like school.<\/p>\n
75. A canceled class is almost as exciting as Christmas.<\/p>\n
76. Taking a nap in the library is perfectly acceptable.<\/p>\n
77. Your professors speak English… as a second language.<\/p>\n
78. Your teachers swear in class and no one cares.<\/p>\n
79. Candles in your dorm room are considered contraband, but cigarettes are ok.<\/p>\n
80. You take condiment packets and napkins from fast food restaurants – hey, they’re free.<\/p>\n
81. Betta fish are like your family.<\/p>\n
82. You bring back socks from the laundry room that may or may not be yours.<\/p>\n
83. You know what people carrying suspiciously heavy backpacks after dark are doing…<\/p>\n
84. The elevators take forever but you’ll wait 10 minutes just so you don’t have to climb stairs.<\/p>\n
85. Your roommate asks you to check the weather on your computer when they’re standing 5 feet away from the door.<\/p>\n
86. Showers become more of an issue.<\/p>\n
87. You press the automatic door opener instead of simply grabbing the handle when you approach a door.<\/p>\n
88. Christmas lights seem to be acceptable all year round.<\/p>\n
*89. Class size doubles on exam days.<\/p>\n
90. You donate plasma even though you know it’s pretty sketchy.<\/p>\n
*91. You are no longer thankful that fire alarms are here to protect you.<\/p>\n
92. You’ve bought Christmas presents from the book store and charged it to your student account so your parents pay for the gifts because you’re too broke.<\/p>\n
93. You begin to include ketchup on your list of acceptable vegetables.<\/p>\n
94. You stay on campus for hours in between classes when it’s too cold to walk home.<\/p>\n
95. People have to help you kick the vending machine just so you can get your 50 cent bag of chips.<\/p>\n
*96. There’s always a “question kid” in at least one of your classes, and you really wish someone would just tell him\/her to shut the hell up.<\/p>\n
97. You steal dishes from the cafeteria so you don’t have to wash your own.<\/p>\n
98. Laundry is an all-day event.<\/p>\n
99. You no longer find it uncool to take naps. In fact, you quite enjoy them.<\/p>\n
100. It’s illegal to drink in the dorms yet they sell an assortment of shot glasses, beer mugs, tankards, etc. in the bookstore.<\/p>\n
101. You find your list of acceptable napping places expanding daily to increasingly uncomfortable locations.<\/p>\n
102. You fill out credit card applications for the free food.<\/p>\n
103. You’ve eaten cereal out of a cup… with a fork.<\/p>\n
104. Dressing up for Halloween becomes cool again.<\/p>\n
105. You know at least one person who has dropped his\/her cell phone into a toilet.<\/p>\n
106. You hang multiple shirts on the same hanger to save space\/money.<\/p>\n
*107. You become increasingly annoyed with the “old” people in class – props to them for going back to college but they generally ask really, really annoying questions.<\/p>\n
108. You admire people’s alcohol bottle shrines.<\/p>\n
109. You set your clock 5-10 minutes ahead so you can potentially make it to class on time.<\/p>\n
110. You check ratemyprofessor.com (or something of the like) before choosing your class schedule.<\/p>\n
111. You text faster than you type.<\/p>\n
112. You only find out a class is cancelled after you get there and sit for about ten minutes.<\/p>\n
113. You actually start using coupons, especially those school coupon books.<\/p>\n
114. You open canned food and eat it… out of the can.<\/p>\n
115. You run out of black ink and, instead of buying a new ink cartridge, decide blue is a nice substitute… adds a little flair.<\/p>\n
116. You have numbers in your phone with labels like “Sketchy Steve” and “Alcohol Guy.”<\/p>\n
117. The food in your fridge may or may not be older than your little brother.<\/p>\n
*118. You finish reading this and wonder how you can procrastinate next.<\/p>\n