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1. Everybody around you is wearing the college gear of another university
2. That is not the Founder’s Hall you are used to seeing
3. Your ID does not get you into any building
4. The football team everyone else is cheering for is not the football team you are accustomed to cheering for
5. You don’t recognize the people you are walking by
6. The Psych 101 professor in this class looks different than the Psych 101 professor you’re pretty sure you’ve been seeing for 8 weeks
7. Your Parking permit doesn’t seem to be convincing the campus police
8. People are looking at you with the kind of “I’m pretty sure you are a visitor to this campus” look that you yourself are used to dishing out to people who, I guess, find themselves in the same predicament you find yourself in currently
9. Most of the people may or may not be conversing in a strange sounding language
10. At the very least, the same slang terms you take for granted are treated as totally novel
11. The surrounding town does not have all the places you’re used to lumbering into at 4 AM.
12. The surrounding town isn’t even called what you think it is. What the hell is a “Poughkeepsie?”
13. There just seems to be a slightly different set of subtle prejudices people seem to maintain, and you can’t really put it into words but you know it’s there
14. When you ask people what university you’re at, they come back with some name you are sure you did not apply to
15. Now that you’re thinking about your college application process, you find out that most of the elements you highlighted in your “Why choose us?” essay are lacking around this campus
16. You go back to the right university and realize, “oh yeah this is not the university I was at previously: that other one was the wrong university.”
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