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27 Things They Don't Teach You In High School That You Learn Pretty Much Immediately In College

The stuff that REALLY matters.

When you get to college, you learn...

1. You're gonna live in mystery:

2. Assigned seats are a state of mind:

3. Parking will be your number one enemy:

4. Your group will always betray you:

5. Sometimes a 52 is A-OK:

6. Someone is always going to be more confused than you:

7. Things that are not forks make great forks:

8. Sometimes you just gotta leave:

9. Post-skip depression is real:

Y’all ever skip a class and then have the post skip class depression? Like damn I should’ve just went

10. It's the weird people who have it the most together:

11. Things get confusing:

12. Liquor bottles are not a decoration:

13. "Office hours" has a flexible meaning:

14. No one has any idea what's going on:

College is so weird like the future leaders, teachers and doctors for our country are slamming beer cans against their heads and blacking out on Mondays

15. The most wonderful time of year is also the most stressful:

16. High school numbers don't matter anymore:

some kid in the library is bragging loudly about how he got a 35 on the ACT well sir I signed up for the ACT but forgot I did and missed the test and we still ended up at the same school how does that make you feel

17. You gotta take that nap:

In highschool I woke up at 6 am, went to classes for 7 hours, went straight to track practice and ran 8 miles, then went home and did homework without taking a nap..in college I can't even take a shower without needing a nap

18. Your dreams ain't comin' true:

19. Professors are one of two ways:

half of college professors are like “you can know nothing about me except my name” and the other half are like “and that’s why my wife left me! anyway what’s up with y’all”

20. You'll be part of something much bigger than yourself:

21. The fight never ends:

college is literally just you, your laptop, and your water bottle against the world

22. Every dollar is well spent:

23. Keeping a schedule is important:

i just saw a guy in the library cry for five or so minutes and then his phone alarm went off and he just? stopped crying? and went right on back to work

24. People can change a lot in 13 minutes:

25. There's nothing weirder than the great friend blend:

Remember when Disney channel would do cross over episodes between two different shows?? That’s how it feels when your college friends visit ur house and meet your home friends

26. Professors have very strange flexes:

27. And passing is all that really matters: