100 Things My First Semester of College Taught Me

Things my first semester of college taught me

1) There will be times you feel like you are the ONLY one who wants to learn the material.
2) Coffee and Energy drinks help you get through the day after a long night of studying.
3) Headphones and loud rock, classic or angry girl, help you get through cleaning.
4) Caf food helps you realize how much you miss your Mommy.
5) You must read EVERY little word in the textbook to pass the test (yes, that includes the captions for the pictures).
6) Most guys don't grow out of their immature stage once they leave home; it even seems to increase in immaturity level.
7) Blackboard is the devil but so important to your college career.
8) Take classes you will ACTUALLY look forward to going to, unless they are required for your degree.
9) You and everybody else around you will probably question their major choice at least ONCE a week.
10) I am the only one who knows how to put down the toilet lid.
11) There are too many engineering students out there; you think we would run out of jobs eventually.
12) Engineering students have a weird sense of humor.
13) Naps are essential.
14) Elevator rides are best taken alone or with people you actually like.
15) Taking time to reflect on the beauties of nature helps you get through the nasty cold days of winter.
16) Wear a diamond ring on your left ring finger and people assume you are married or engaged.
17) Moments of stupidity seem to be happen about the same time, don't try to sleep or study during that period of time, it is just too hard.
18) Find at least one person to latch on in a class because you will want someone to gripe about the teacher, the homework and the tests to.
19) Keeping in touch with friends from High School is key.
20) Trips home always seem too short.
21) You become immune to the titters when you tell someone you are a Shocker.
22) When people throw you the Shocker you just kinda shrug and say, "Seen it, about 9 thousand times."
23) Check the forecast at least twice before you leave, going to class with too many or not enough layers makes you look like an idiot.
24) Wear sensible shoes.
25) The best part about eating in the caf, are the desserts.
26) Dorm living sucks the big one
27) but it is one of the cheaper ways to live on campus.
28) If you encounter a male, assume he is an idiot with one thing on his mind, 9/10 times, you are correct.
29) Little Brother/Big Sister relationships are funny to watch. (it could be because I only have sisters and am the oldest)
30) Being a Coke girl living in a Pepsi world makes you try weird combinations of drinks, just so you have something different tasting to drink.
31) Buying books at the bookstore may be about 20-40 dollars more expensive, but at least you are almost ALWAYS quarantined the right book.
32) Wichitans are some of the worst drivers in the world, well, from the places I am have been.
33) For every one car in Wichita there are 10 cars in Kansas City (yet, Wichita drives worse).
34) C(k)ake is dessert and a news station (KAKE - It is the station Dennis Radar (BTK) sent all the stuff to).
35) Dennis Radar got his Criminal Justice degree from WSU.
36) One of the letters Dennis Radar sent in was photocopied on a machine on WSU campus.
37) The most common "crime" that happens on/around WSU campus is people being pulled over for either expired tags/taillight out and 9/10ths of the time they can't provide up-to-date ids and insurance.
38) Thursday is party night.
39) Spending your birthday alone, is uber sucky.
40) Wal-mart may have cheap quality stuff, but when you are a poor ass college student, it is almost a saving grace.
41) People tend to do the Freshman 15, BUT they lose it, not gain it.-I lost like 15 pounds in the first month and half-.
42) Have a hobby, it helps pass the time.
43) Scanners are amazing.
44) Trying to check facebook at noon, 3:30pm, 6pm and 11pm is almost impossible.
45) Your dorm door should scream, "Hey, this is me!"
46) You need a strong metal umbrella so it doesn't snap when the loverly wind of Wichita blows during the heavy downfall you have to walk to school in.
47) Cleaning is only necessary when your CA (RA in most circles) or Parents are coming to visit.
48) Finding ample Bluetooth signals isn't hard, it is just hard to keep yours going strong.
49) The sign-in computer in the language lab has something against short people.
50) People are stupid and don't realize they need to shut their doors, and then when stuff gets stolen they get all up at arms, I just wanna go, DUH!!
51) To successfully open your mailbox, use your right hand.
52) Dawn dish soap is really an all-purpose liquid soap (clean the floor, showers, dishes, sinks etc)
53) Laundry is a necessity to life, especially if you like to smell clean and don't want to get really, really sick.
54) Prisons have mattresses just like the one I sleep on.
55) Most prisons have bigger windows then they have at Fairmont.
56) Swiffer Carpet Flick, get yourself one, they are amazing.
57) Movies, specially ones that make you smile, make good time passers.
58) Kerf really is a word
59) Kansas has 9 people on death row.
60) There really is a difference between prison and jail.
61) People are really bad at pretending they like you.
62) The older you get, the more you start to worry about the future.
63) There is nothing like December to make you feel COMPLETLY poor.
64) Food Network makes good background telly because there is almost always something worth watching on.
65) College kids are generally retarded.
66) Wu is probably one of the scariest looking mascots out there.
67) High School football is everything in the Wichita area, mainly because the locale University doesn’t have a team.
68) WSU has actually seen a rise in attendance since they got rid of their football team.
69) When you tell people you are a Criminal Justice major, they look at you funny.
70) I don’t like Ramen has much as I thought I did.
71) Hand washing dishes should be outlawed.
72) Walking to Sonic doesn’t seems as odd, especially when it is basically next door.
73) Wichita has some great Asian markets with traditional Asian food.
74) Koch is pronounced COKE
75) Ablah (Ab-law) is one of the coolest library names, specially if you call it A-blah library.
76) Cox makes terrible cable and internet.
77) The one bad thing about suite rooms is that your suitemate tends to use the shower when you really need to pee.
78) We don’t have a parking problem, we have a driving problem. Too many people will drive from Fairmont to campus which is ACROSS the street. It takes you 15ish minutes to walk to campus, basically 30 or so to drive.
79) If you want to eat food in the caf and also want to sleep in during the weekends, your screwed, the caf is open from 11-1.
80) You are never as prepared as you think you are.
81) The one loud person will ruin any quiet moment you get, always.
83) The Sunflower (Student Newspaper) is terribly written, I don’t know why I subject myself to reading it every other day.
84) German is a dying language in America, we need more people to take it.
85) Going to the bookstore at the beginning or the end of a semester is basically suicide.
86) Alumnus of WSU only gives a crap about the school when they realized the Shockers are doing really good in Basketball. Why waste your time on a school nobody has heard of, eh?
87) There are really a handful of people out there that know that WSU exists, which is sad because it really is great school
88) Wu looks like a stubbed out cigarette.
88) The only way to explain exactly what Wu is, is to compare him to the Cornhuskers mascot. Well, that is the only way people will get it.
89) There are like 5 million little towns around Wichita.
90) Cell phone conversations are usually held in the hallway, especially if you are living in roommate situation. What is worse, disturbing one person or disturbing the whole entire hall?
91) You have to have tall friends (if you are short like me) if you want to change your temperature on your thermostat. (It is in the ceiling in your bathroom.)
92) Friends are easy to make, good friends are harder to keep.
93) Taking a class with old people makes the class go by with a whole different flare.
94) There is a liquor store near WSU and their sign says “Don’t drink and drive, but drive in a get a drink”.
95) 9/10 of the population of a college think getting drunk is the only fun thing to do.
96) Fridays are the days that less people come to class, mainly because most of them are too hung-over to even realize, well, anything.
97) Dorm rooms are kinda like hotel rooms minus the maid that comes in and cleans your room for you.
98) Liking your teacher makes going to class a lot easier, even if you dread that class with a passion.
99) If you don’t know where something is, assume it is on Rock Rd, because you are almost guaranteed to be right 99.9% of the time.
100) Wichita is only the “ghetto” because it is the largest city in Kansas. People who do crime tend to gravitate towards the biggest city. If you know that, you will be fine, because you know what to look for.