selective perception.

• High school started before 8am, but now anything before noon is considered “early.”
• You can’t remember the last time you washed your car.
• Weekends start on Thursday. No… Wednesday.
• Your underwear/sock supply dictates your laundry schedule.
• You check Facebook/Myspace more than once a day.
• The standard of meals per day falls to two, sometimes just one.
• Your trash is overflowing and your bank account isn’t.
• You try to study but seem to procrastinate by eating, going to study breaks, talking to people, etc…
• Certain things are now deemed “facebook worthy.” When friends take pictures of you, you wonder how long it will take them to post them.
• You see people you know you’ve met but can never remember their names or how you know them.
• You sleep more in class than in your room
• You use words like “thus”
• Going to the library is a social event.
• You skip one class to write a paper for another.
• Your backpack is giving you scoliosis.
• You never realized so many people are smarter than you.
• You never realized so many people are more dumb (aka “dumber”) than you.
• You craft ways to make any game into a drinking/stripping game.
• You can’t imagine life without your computer/cell phone/ ipod.
• Hoodies and sweatpants become the norm - jeans are considered “dressy” at certain occasions… like school.
• A canceled class is almost as exciting as Christmas.
• Taking a nap in the library is perfectly acceptable.
• Your teachers swear in class and no one cares.
• The elevators take forever but you’ll wait 10 minutes just so you don’t have to climb stairs.
• Class size doubles on exam days.
• 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.
• You find your list of acceptable napping places expanding daily to increasingly uncomfortable locations.
• You’ve eaten cereal out of a cup… with a fork.
• Dressing up for Halloween becomes cool again. (I’ve always thought that it’s always been cool)
• 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.
• You set your clock 5-10 minutes ahead so you can potentially make it to class on time.
• You eventually realize that setting your clock ahead makes no difference to you and you’re still late.
• You check ratemyprofessor.com (or something of the like) before choosing your class schedule.
• You text faster than you type.
• The words “google” and “wikipedia” have become verbs. And you use them… quite often.
• Energy drinks become your new best friends.
• You realize that taking summer classes pretty much negates the fun connotation of “summer.”
• You’ve made a sandwich on or eaten food off of your $1500 laptop.
• You can’t sit in the front row because of all the ‘non-traditional’ students.
• You attend insanely boring seminars because your professor offers extra credit. Hmm, maybe there will even be cookies or something…

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