college kid
My ramen has the slightest hint of dishwasher soap flavoring.
2008-12-16 08:52:56 / Rating: 101 / 
Story archives - tag: "college"
one day
I gave the high school freshman my phone number so he could brag to his friends and because it reaffirmed that I want to be a journalist when I grow up
2008-12-12 09:18:39 / Rating: 43.25 /
Ellie
I stood in the cereal aisle for ten minutes trying to pick the Marshmallow Mateys bag with the highest marshmallow-to-anchor ratio.
2008-12-05 13:03:14 / Rating: 255.25 /
Lo
My best friend looked at me and said, "My mouth tastes like Spring Break."
2008-12-04 13:19:40 / Rating: 124.5 /
Finally
I unfriended them all from my Facebook page because I didn't want them to share my joys or enjoy my sorrow.
2008-12-02 13:06:55 / Rating: 130.5 /
lmnop
No one ever told me that college life would include having a stranger pee on my dorm room floor.
2008-11-21 15:52:37 / Rating: 154.5 /
snap
It's funny how quickly your plans change from "changing the world and chasing your dreams" to "getting really fucking drunk."
2008-11-13 13:09:35 / Rating: 713.25 /
Chase
Not being quite attuned to college life, I reflexively put my old home address while ordering a porn DVD.
2008-10-22 12:57:20 / Rating: 303 /
Teacher teacher
The first thing they said at orientation was "don't date your students" and 6 weeks into the semester I'm doing just that.
2008-10-13 15:16:35 / Rating: 93.75 /
Steveie
In order to desensitize my roommate to various things involved in childbirth I hid sticky notes around the room with the words like "placenta" on them.
2008-10-10 11:14:45 / Rating: 125 /
Slim
I tried to ignore the fact that I was alone in my dorm on a Saturday night and focused my energy into color-coding the rest of my shoes.
2008-10-06 13:10:03 / Rating: 126.25 /
culture shock
It was when my freshman year roommate asked where my summer house was that I realized I'd never fit in at college.
2008-09-17 23:47:56 / Rating: 312 /
A.D.
In Physics of Music class, I learned that a wave is defined as "a traveling disturbance" and I thought of my ex-boyfriend.
2008-08-27 14:55:54 / Rating: 333.5 /
RA
I opened my dorm room door to a frantic guy who said, "There's a naked body on 4th floor and I'm not even kidding."
2008-08-11 15:54:31 / Rating: 149.25 /
MADk
I imagine the people at Harvard gave my application the same look Mary received from the Israelites when she told them her new son, Jesus, was immaculately conceived.
2008-07-30 14:41:13 / Rating: 285.75 /
TheArchimage
I knew I was going to fail the class when the professor pulled me aside and asked, "Do you have a learning disability I should know about?"
2008-07-01 15:12:30 / Rating: 312.75 /
raging
I suddenly came out of the blackout when the ER doctor informed me that my tendon was no longer attached to my middle finger.
2008-06-27 14:54:17 / Rating: 115.75 /
Corner Room
It's not until you live in a dorm room that shares a wall with a stairwell that you realize people are horrible at carrying things up and down steps.
2008-06-13 13:40:49 / Rating: 198.25 /
Rusty
I went to college to dodge this war, and now I'm going to war to pay for college.
2008-06-10 10:30:23 / Rating: 332 /
tourguide
Whenever my campus tour groups ask about the library facilities, I am tempted to explain to them how exactly I know that the private study rooms are soundproof.
2008-06-06 17:05:53 / Rating: 317.5 /
Dormouse
Getting a wowie from my Studio Lighting teacher makes that F in English fizzle away.
2008-05-01 14:27:24 / Rating: 152.75 /
C'est vrai
We felt bad laughing about the legally blind Bosnian passed out drunk in a pool of his own vomit on the tile near the toilet, but it sure did make one hell of a story.
2008-04-28 12:17:51 / Rating: 187 /
bogo
econ 4405: Because no matter how hard I try to convince myself that I can pass the exam, I can't learn it all in less than nine hours.
2008-04-15 10:04:58 / Rating: 141 /
Airily
I hadn't understood just how much I hated my roommate until I laughed while watching her walk into a glass door and break her nose.
2008-03-25 10:49:20 / Rating: 229 /
drop out
I don't want to go to a school that has to advertise on television.
2008-03-25 10:47:22 / Rating: 206 /
The Day The Music Died
And that, my friends, is how I ended up getting my first kiss (from a complete stranger, to boot) at Rocky Horror Picture Show night.
2008-03-19 09:52:14 / Rating: 142 /
Seven
You know it's time to do dishes when you find yourself eating a TV dinner with a butter knife.
2008-03-03 12:58:11 / Rating: 319 /
Nelly
Yesterday I had to explain to my roommates, who don't drink, why Jeff's car was in the backyard.
2008-02-29 16:36:23 / Rating: 223.5 /
Scarlett
"Leave the pizza on the futon and I'll eat it for breakfast" would be the most collegiate sentence ever uttered, if only I had worked in the word "toga."
2008-02-29 16:35:32 / Rating: 272.25 /
Waiting For The White Truck
The mail arrives promptly at 10:15 every morning except on those that I expect a college decision letter.
2008-02-29 12:50:13 / Rating: 157.75 /
Creeped
My roommate's stalker is creepy.
2008-02-22 16:10:19 / Rating: 147 /
Seventeen Going On Eighteen
The night I realized I was jealous of a twelve-year-old was the night I decided I needed to leave for college more than ever.
2008-02-20 16:24:54 / Rating: 148.75 /
...!
I told him I have no problem with him seeing me naked, but a bathing suit is a different story.
2008-02-12 12:33:53 / Rating: 351.5 /
ETGPressInc
"Goodbye sex" only reopens old wounds.
2008-02-08 16:50:49 / Rating: 216.75 /
Hours away from people that love me
With all the tags for "college" I finally feel connected to my age group.
2008-02-06 13:37:15 / Rating: 167.25 /
Kurtus
I farted in the kitchen and my roommate broke her toe.
2008-01-29 15:28:54 / Rating: 177.5 /
Sleepy...
Sleep deprivation writes some of the best college papers.
2008-01-23 11:56:46 / Rating: 314.25 /
elise
Spending New Year's Eve alone at my parent's house during my last winter break won't doom me to a lonely, sexless 2008, will it?
2007-12-31 11:50:25 / Rating: 173.25 /
busy as a bee...
The day I realized that I had only scheduled three hours for sleep was the day I realized that I was too busy.
2007-12-07 14:56:20 / Rating: 227.5 /
I need a fork, or new roommates
I'm eating Ellio's pizza with a spoon right now because my roommates don't know how to wash dishes.
2007-12-03 15:13:56 / Rating: 159.25 /
Dmann
An intoxicated man pointed to a car's license plate and said to me "This chinaman is from Iwo Jima" and when I looked at the license plate it said "IOWA."
2007-11-24 18:32:42 / Rating: 234.25 /
Tessa V
I was hoping that I would be disappointed by the booty call so that I'd stop liking you so much.
2007-11-09 11:04:08 / Rating: 216.5 /
Rachel
My love for him deepened significantly when he offered to cosign my student loans.
2007-10-25 10:45:30 / Rating: 222.75 /
Dormouse
Everytime I hang up something from home in my dorm room, I get more homesick.
2007-10-23 11:48:01 / Rating: 150 /
Jwizzle
It's hard for me to concentrate in my lectures because I get distracted by imagining what it'd be like to make out with random people in my class.
2007-10-22 14:06:43 / Rating: 280.75 /
Raze
When I realized that my three taxonomy courses all had tests in the same week, I wanted to jump off a building.
2007-10-15 09:38:36 / Rating: 119.75 /
Prince Albert
Lately my clothes have felt incredibly stifling and the first thing I do when I get back from class is rip them off.
2007-10-05 10:23:07 / Rating: 218.5 /
Almost an Adult
I've been counting down to my 18th birthday on a calendar with the heading "# of days of childhood left", but I'm too busy with college to build a fort or play freeze-tag.
2007-10-02 10:26:18 / Rating: 217.5 /
Rachel
Cleaning your sneakers while sitting in front of a small oscillating fan in a dorm room is probably not what they intended by "use in a well-ventilated area."
2007-09-27 12:31:39 / Rating: 142.25 /
lush
After waking up next to my ex-boyfriend with someone else's name emblazoned on my hand in permanent marker, I realized I should lay off the 99 bananas.
2007-09-19 15:06:03 / Rating: 180.5 /
Rachel
Upon entering practice room 158 this morning to find a large penis scratched into the wood of the piano, I realized once again that college boys never do grow up.
2007-09-18 13:11:33 / Rating: 233.25 /
Talkative
I've been living with my college roommate for two days now, and we haven't spoken more than three words to each other.
2007-08-28 23:07:01 / Rating: 202.5 /
Rachel
You should have seen the looks on their faces when I, the girl who abhors underage drinking, announced that one of my goals in life is to try Canadian beer.
2007-08-28 23:05:44 / Rating: 161.75 /
Gretchen
Tomorrow we will drive our son to college, get him set up in his dorm room, marvel at what a great school he will be attending, help him settle in, hug and kiss him goodbye and then cry the entire way home, the backseat entirely too empty.
2007-08-23 18:02:22 / Rating: 256.75 /
jordan
Somehow, I landed one of the coveted single rooms on campus, but it's only made me more nervous about being isolated and antisocial 1500 miles from home.
2007-08-10 13:07:35 / Rating: 269 /
the girl
My father is selling my home to move in with his new wife as I leave everything I've ever known behind.
2007-08-01 12:40:07 / Rating: 191.5 /
Josh
I don't know if school's for me, but I know working isn't.
2007-07-05 12:25:57 / Rating: 218.25 /
Dara
So I told her "When you go to college try to send me a letter."
2007-05-24 23:40:20 / Rating: 173.5 /
Failure
I was the smartest person on my floor of my dorm, and probably the richest too, but I was also the only one to flunk out.
2007-05-21 10:16:25 / Rating: 226 /
Oops
Five years and a college degree later, I've discovered that a "risk" is essentially defined by the possibility of failure.
2007-05-17 13:47:36 / Rating: 234.75 /
Kelly #1
As my boyfriend sleeps in my dorm bed next to me, I can't help but hope that one day we can share something bigger than a twin size.
2007-05-10 10:40:31 / Rating: 314.25 /
Pearl
My freshmen year of college isn't even over yet and I'm already wishing I could start it over again.
2007-05-09 11:24:59 / Rating: 248.25 /
W_Simons
I was right: there was no specific rule against rappelling out the fourth story dorm window.
2007-05-09 11:23:50 / Rating: 445.25 /
Doom of Doom
I got into the all of the colleges that I had applied for, but now I have to figure out which one I actually want to go to.
2007-04-25 15:50:48 / Rating: 157.5 /
how i'd like to be credited
Having everyone on the floor of his dormitory know exactly what we're doing for the next few hours is worth avoiding any more awkward intrusions.
2007-04-16 15:48:27 / Rating: 293.5 /
timmy
During my final exam, I plan to ask my girlfriend/professor to marry me.
2007-03-27 15:13:22 / Rating: 304.5 /
Veronica
As I watched the final seconds, all I could think was how much it must suck to be a Duke fan right now.
2007-03-16 13:41:03 / Rating: 215.75 /
mediocre
It wasn't until two days later that I realized I had not answered the question posed by the essay portion of the final exam.
2007-03-13 12:48:17 / Rating: 262 /
mac
I had been drifting through a haze of various drugs and forgettable experiences, until one day I woke up and couldn't remember who I was before college.
2007-02-14 10:38:43 / Rating: 274 /
Veronica
It's not the fact that i was written up for 'underage alcohol consumption' that bothers me, it's the fact that for once, I hadn't had any at all.
2007-02-12 12:35:08 / Rating: 230.75 /
me
I moved away to college thinking that I wouldn't miss my family, but I really wish I could see them right now.
2007-02-07 09:56:07 / Rating: 226.25 /
M. Love
My heart is slowly breaking.
2007-01-01 19:56:59 / Rating: 255.75 /
Beth
The car was packed and loaded, and with tears in my eyes I hugged my son and said goodbye.
2006-12-10 13:14:36 / Rating: 243.75 /
long way from home
In the weeks of my stardom in Nigeria as a 5'2 white female "didn't make the cut in high school" basketball player I regained my confidence.
2006-12-05 12:27:53 / Rating: 214.5 /
distressing e
I don't really want to be an engineer but I REALLY don't want to be a failure to my parents.
2006-10-17 09:59:56 / Rating: 271.25 /
Robot Girl
I should be sleeping, but I keep thinkig about all of the things I need to do, should have done, and about how I don't want to screw everything up.
2006-10-16 14:51:10 / Rating: 318.25 /
KF
The only professor I could find who was able to get accounting concepts through my thick skull died three weeks into the semester.
2006-10-10 19:43:50 / Rating: 265.25 /
Lisa
I made a list and crossed out all the subjects that I knew right away I didn't want to major in, and in the end all that was left was Neuroscience, so I went with that.
2006-10-04 13:12:59 / Rating: 248 /
Erik, Kim, & Sondra
It sounded like a good idea at the time, but as soon as the sulfuric scent filled the hallway, we began second-guessing our impulsive decision to make deviled eggs in a college dorm.
2006-09-04 11:48:18 / Rating: 214.25 /
Tracy
College Jeopardy! auditions are much harder than the game you watch on television, especially if one is nursing one's first real collegiate hangover.
2006-08-23 20:23:32 / Rating: 202.25 /
RMC
I jumped off a moving train in Switzerland while traveling with some college friends.
2006-08-10 12:26:31 / Rating: 227.75 /
Jen
I once ran the sound for a touring mime company.
2006-08-10 01:45:23 / Rating: 349.25 /
Dave Walls
In college, I was in a morning class with 500 other students in a lecture hall, only to fall asleep and wake up about 5 hours later in the middle of another class.
2006-07-17 17:54:32 / Rating: 463.25 /
Mike
I passed out while peeing in the dorm room bathroom, and woke up later with my head under a stall door, still unzipped with no idea how long I was there.
2006-06-27 17:36:14 / Rating: 250.25 /