Buzz·Posted on 27 Jan 201613 Ways University Was Nothing Like You Planned Or ExpectedIt's nothing like the pictures on the website.by Alex FinnisBuzzFeed Staff, UKLinkFacebookPinterestTwitterMail 1. Expectation: Your university will be made up exclusively of old, grand buildings with beautiful brickwork and high ceilings. Reality: There is one fancy building, but you never get to go in there, and most of your uni looks something like this. 2. Expectation: You'll decorate your room really nicely and make it feel just like home. View this photo on Instagram Reality: Turns out that's way too much effort, and the room's too shitty to do much with anyway. 3. Expectation: You'll be best mates with everyone in your flat, and you'll go out together all the time. View this photo on Instagram Reality: There is always at least one person who you never even see leave their room. 4. Expectation: You will do all your required reading and develop a wealth of interesting knowledge in your chosen field. View this photo on Instagram Reality: You do exactly the amount of reading required to get a 2:1 and not look like a mug in your seminars. View this photo on Instagram 5. Expectation: You will be far too strong to succumb to freshers' flu. View this photo on Instagram Reality: You succumbed to freshers' flu. View this photo on Instagram 6. Expectation: You'll get invited to lots of events where you get to drink wine with your professors and have intellectual conversation. Sprinkles Miner @SprinklesMiner My professor drinking wine 04:56 PM - 09 Apr 2014 Reply Retweet Favorite Reality: You get trashed on £5 bottles of Echo Falls and 2-4-1 Jägerbomb deals while dressed as a Power Ranger. 7. Expectation: You will cook for yourself every night, and learn lots of new, healthy recipes. View this photo on Instagram Reality: As soon as someone, anyone, mentions the word pizza, you're in. 8. Expectation: You will also save time and money by cooking meals in bulk and then freezing them for the week ahead. Reality: You don't have that kind of restraint. 9. Expectation: You'll reinvent yourself as someone who is effortlessly cool, charming, and well dressed. View this photo on Instagram Reality: You'll be pretty much the same, except you'll wear pyjamas in public more often. Lazy Wong~ @wongt0n Wth econ lecture!?! LOL RT @yin_karen O m g bananas in pyjamas came into my lecture 03:47 AM - 31 Oct 2013 Reply Retweet Favorite 10. Expectation: You will go out to lots of cool pubs and bars before ending up at the club. View this photo on Instagram Reality: You mostly just get drunk in your kitchen, and head out as late as possible (if at all). View this photo on Instagram 11. Expectation: You will fill your spare time with fun and diverse societies and sports clubs. Reality: You fill your spare time by making a mattress fort in your corridor and watching Netflix in it. GK @GeorgeKowalik11 @CommunityTV Mattress & blanket fort in university halls of residence 09:55 PM - 13 Mar 2015 Reply Retweet Favorite 12. Expectation: It won't take you long for you to use up all those free condoms they hand out. View this photo on Instagram Reality: You probably still have one of them now. View this photo on Instagram 13. Expectation: Once it's all over, you'll feel like a real adult ready to take on the world. Reality: You never feel like a real adult ready to take on the world. View this photo on Instagram