You Know You're in College When...

I promised my mother this post a while ago...better late than never...

We had a couple good 'college moments' recently. Some of them are kind of yuck haha but thats what you get when 7 people are living together that have never lived away from home before this year.

You know you're a first year college student when...

1. You walk to the laundry room in a skirt so you can get your underwear out of the dryer before your first class

2. You walk to the building next door to use the public restroom cause you ran out of toilet paper

3. The boys next door have colds so you barter with them to get 2 rolls of their toilet paper for 1 of your kleenex boxes...cause youre tired of walking to the building next door

4. Your roommates have all gathered around the toilet recently in amazement while one of them shows the others how toilet bowl cleaner works...and one actually exclaims 'i didnt know we could get rid of that line!'

5. You spend 15 minutes in the frozen pizza aisle calculating pizza to dollar ratio in order to get the most pizza for the change in your pocket without having to buy the burnt thin crust kind

6. You and your roommate attend a healthy eating meeting with dietician majors just cause you were told free vegetables were being served (my personal fav. we really did this)

7. After a long day of class you wake up on your couch confused to see 5 other bodies scattered under tables, falling off chairs etc with the movie menu playing on repeat and later calculate that it must have been running for over an hour

8. You praise the collegiate gods that the day you forget to do your reading for class and are running at least 15 min late is the same day you get a text from your roommate saying 'OMGZ class canceled!! :) put down the eyeliner!'

9. You freak out running to the sink while your roommate shouts directions on How To Get Superglue off Skin from HowTo.com after trying to fix something without the boys help

10. HowTo.com is your homepage

11. You have a heated argument at lunch about the budget cuts in the cafeteria noting that even though you know youre the only one that ate the hummus they should have kept it as it was a staple in your daily meals...only to be looked at with a confused expression and a 'NO WAY...when did we have hummus?!'

12. The 79cent menu at Taco Bell all of a sudden seems a little pricey and a sure example of our terrible economy

13. You periodically visit Borders and sit in the back of the reference section slowly making your way to the end of one book so you dont have to buy it.

14. Youve memorized the times when Panda throws away their cream cheese rangoons and happen to show up at those designated times...and the woman there that doesnt speak english acknowledges you...by name

15. You go to a member of the bishopric's house for FHE and sneak the leftover oreos home with you later asking your FHE dad if you need to repent

16. You know a time where the girls down the hall all have class at the same time and go to take a nap in their room where you can finally get some quiet.

17. Nobody is surprised to wake up in the morning and see you in the exact same clothes clutching your laptop and a notebook

18. Youve been found twice this week sitting in the laundry room sink studying cause its too loud in your room but too cold to walk to the library

19. Your Friday night includes comparing bruises from the times you fell on the way to class that week

Thats all I can remember right now.

*All of the above did in fact occur