The University experience is a voyage of discovery in which you learn great things about yourself and the crazy world around you. It is the best possible preparation for the utter madness of real-life, chock full of traffic-cone-wielding daredevils and questionable culinary decisions…and just in case your alcohol-induced amnesia caused you to forget the best parts of your student experience, here are 23 things that only happen while you’re at University:
1. Top nights out ending in tragically awkward mornings…
Via Jezebel.
2. Your choice of furniture being categorised as ‘Extremely Hazardous’…
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3. Student loan day…
Via Genius.
… Vs. the rest of the semester…
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4. Cutting corners with your healthcare…
5. Having a kitchen that’s fully stocked with the essentials…
Typical osu student dishwasher pic.twitter.com/XRckAXgvjj
— OKSTATECONFESSIONS (@okstateconfess) June 29, 2014
6. Being able to leave the house without even considering changing out of your pyjamas…
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7. The frustration of living in a shared student house…
Nothing in this house works
— George Malloy⚓ (@georgiep33) December 2, 2015
…making you feel like this
8. Waking up the morning after to find the cat really did drag something in…
Woke up to find a random boy asleep on the corridor, oh hiya! pic.twitter.com/gLlxaDnZX8
— Bethany Wallace (@BethanyrachaelX) October 13, 2013
9. Unmissable student ‘deals’ at the University book store…
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10. Eating a balanced diet and taking pride in your health…
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11. Being surrounded by friends who are genuinely concerned for your welfare…
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12. Enhancing every stationary object with its own bespoke hat…
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13. Spending so long in the state of Hungover that you’ve forgotten how to function in the state of Sober…
14. Having such a small amount of money that your resourcefulness remains on top form…
15. More than 50% of your wardrobe not being deemed fit for civilised society…
Via Hexjam.
16. Letting the kitchen get in such a terrible state that it begins to spawn it’s very own species…
Via Hexjam.
17. Staying inside to work on a project for so many consectutive hours that daylight literally burns…
18. Receiving your monthly care package and owing your soul to the sender for saving you from the brink of starvation…
Reason 50636483 why I love @demipatterson12 #carepackage pic.twitter.com/TSgUycgFiE
— lauren (@Lauren_Arrabito) December 1, 2015
…until next month at least…
19. Playing tense games of bin jenga with your housemates so you all save money on bin bags…
I hope all of the freshers have mastered the art of bin-jenga before they get to uni pic.twitter.com/XzOZE03szG
— Unii (@UniiApp) August 19, 2014
20. Taping stuff to the ceiling – just because you can…
Via AwesomeInventions.
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21. Finding a passive aggressive note somewhere in the house every other day…
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22. Being this stingy with the heating…
The only warmth I get is from my laptop
— mahass (@mahassenn) November 29, 2015
23. And bodging all your fix-jobs because your Landlord would freak at the state of the house…
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