Ok so it's the first day of my junior year of college, while I don't consider myself a professional college person, I do in fact consider my self knowledgable in some areas of college. This includes anything from the proper rules of beer pong to filling out applications for my internship hopefully next spring. But while going to my fuckin 8 am class, which I swore I would never partake in an 8 am class ever again, I realized somethings.
For all of you college freshmen who actually read this, there are a few things you need to know, it's kinda late now seeing as today is the first day of school but these things still need to be said to you stupid few.
NOTE* I may be in a bitchy rant mood since I was up at 7:15 this morning which i havent really been up that early since ummmm fricken high school! so excuse my usual bitterness, its valid today.
For all of you college freshmen who actually read this, there are a few things you need to know, it's kinda late now seeing as today is the first day of school but these things still need to be said to you stupid few.
NOTE* I may be in a bitchy rant mood since I was up at 7:15 this morning which i havent really been up that early since ummmm fricken high school! so excuse my usual bitterness, its valid today.
Outfits
So lets start off with clothes. Ok I'm only writing to the girls about thsi because guys dont really need to be told how to dress for the first day of school, all they have to do is brush their hair and go. But for freshmen girls its different, you spent so much time preparing your perfect dorm room and made your mom go spend a fortune on tax free weekend, and thats dandy and all, but the reality is, your never going to wear any of that stuff. You will realize within the first week of college that if you wear normal human clothes, you will be stared at. It is an uncommon sight to see people dressed in normal, actually thought out, outfits. So instead of trying to assert your independence and attempts to rise above the stereotypical college outfit that everyone is wearing, YOU WILL END UP WEARING THIS ALMOST EVERY DAY! sorry im not sorry, happy cute clothes bubble is burst. And when you start wearing the college outfit to class, and to the gym, you will start to wear it to dinners, and eventually home, until all your friends and parents see you in is the big tshirts and nike shorts (norts) and tennis shoes. It is then that you realize that you havent gotten dressed in anything from your closet all semester. So you go and put on that cute first day of school outfit that actually shows your figure and come to realize that the freshmen 15-30 has crept up on you and you cant wear half the shit in your closet. So here is expectations and reality of what you will be wearing to class.
So yes, the reality of it all may come as a shock, but this is pretty much all you will see when walking around the alabama campus. And it will become normal for you. You will not be stared at or judged. But then its a reality shock when you go home for break and wear this outfit out in public and people stare, because its not normal in the real world to dress is workout clothes and over sized tshirts.
So moral of the story here is.
I will stare at you when your hair and makeup are fully done and your wearing a cute outfit to your damn 8am class when the entire rest of campus is still groggy, not awake and wearing big tshirts and nike shorts and tennis shoes. remember to thank mommy and dady for making you look out of place on your first day of school in your exciting new school clothes.
So moral of the story here is.
I will stare at you when your hair and makeup are fully done and your wearing a cute outfit to your damn 8am class when the entire rest of campus is still groggy, not awake and wearing big tshirts and nike shorts and tennis shoes. remember to thank mommy and dady for making you look out of place on your first day of school in your exciting new school clothes.
Classes
Now lets talk about classes and class times for a quick second. You may think you want an 8 am class. You chose this class time because you "wanted to get it over with and out of the way." HA LIESSS! You're pretty much setting yourself up for failure my dear naive friend. You will begin to think throughout the school year that you made the worst mistake ever, and that 8am is fricken early, and waking up at 12 noon is kinda normal for most people in college. A more acceptable class time is 9:30 (still to early) or 11am (decent time) or my personal favorite the 2:00 pm classes. They're life savers I'll tell you. The only reason why having the dreaded 8am class is because it was the last one avaliable and you are in desperate need of it to get out of college on time. Which is my particular case right now. I'll probably want to stab myself in the foot by the begining of september.
And if you're in the greek system and have an 8am on MWF, your fucked. Because all swaps/mixers are on either tuesdays or thursdays, and you will get shmammered (yes I spelt it that way on purpose), and you will be hungover and probably sleep through most of your alarm. If you do wakeup however, I'll recommend lots of water/coffee, toast, and advil. Oh and add sunglasses and a hat into that mix, because you will look like a walking zombie and noone wants to see that. Also atleast remember to brush your teeth the next day is anything at all, your breath smells like booze and vomit.
But of course all these lessons are best learned through experience. So good luck.
And if you're in the greek system and have an 8am on MWF, your fucked. Because all swaps/mixers are on either tuesdays or thursdays, and you will get shmammered (yes I spelt it that way on purpose), and you will be hungover and probably sleep through most of your alarm. If you do wakeup however, I'll recommend lots of water/coffee, toast, and advil. Oh and add sunglasses and a hat into that mix, because you will look like a walking zombie and noone wants to see that. Also atleast remember to brush your teeth the next day is anything at all, your breath smells like booze and vomit.
But of course all these lessons are best learned through experience. So good luck.
COMMON SENSE/rules of the crosswalks
HAAAA COMMON SENSE.
Ok this will be short.
College campuses have lots of pedestrians, and lots of students driving from off campus trying to get to class.
Students walking, they think they're fucking invincible. YOU AREN'T! I will run over your ass if I have a green light and your crosswalk signal is saying don't walk. It really is common sense. Also look both ways before crossing the road...holy shit I learned that when I was a toddler!
But seriously, the kids driving to class are trying to get the same place you are, to fucking class.You should respect them enough to pay attention to the cross walk signals. And if there is no cross walk signal, and a bunch of people have been walking non stop to where a line of cars has been waiting to drive through them, take the curtosy to stop and not cross the street. If you stop, so will other people giving the kids driving a chance to get through yall and make it to class.
So that is all for today. Have a great year yall!!!
Broke college kid
Ok this will be short.
College campuses have lots of pedestrians, and lots of students driving from off campus trying to get to class.
Students walking, they think they're fucking invincible. YOU AREN'T! I will run over your ass if I have a green light and your crosswalk signal is saying don't walk. It really is common sense. Also look both ways before crossing the road...holy shit I learned that when I was a toddler!
But seriously, the kids driving to class are trying to get the same place you are, to fucking class.You should respect them enough to pay attention to the cross walk signals. And if there is no cross walk signal, and a bunch of people have been walking non stop to where a line of cars has been waiting to drive through them, take the curtosy to stop and not cross the street. If you stop, so will other people giving the kids driving a chance to get through yall and make it to class.
So that is all for today. Have a great year yall!!!
Broke college kid