62 People Reveal the Unexpected Moments That Shattered Their Old Lives and Unleashed True College Freedom
Worst- freshman year, coming back late on a Sunday after visiting family, only to find all the dining halls closed. So I made bagel bites in my microwave alone (roommate went off to sleep with her SO) crying because I missed my mom and realized nobody would care for me the way she does.
Best- went to a house party that had a water slide, live music, mud pit, and alcohol abounding. Wrestled in the mud with my friends, and shot liquor into each other’s mouths with mini squint guns. Epic dance battle commenced. Realized I would never be able to experience such reckless abandonment outside of college.
I had just moved in to my own apartment the summer before my freshman year, being a poor college student the best setup I could afford was an apartment sharing a room with two other girls. Time alone was scarce at night but once in a while the two other girls would go out and I would just hang out in the apartment with my SO…and by hang out I mean seize the opportunity to [be intimate] in peace. On one particular night my SO and I were in a bit of a rush because we didn’t know how long my roommates would be gone and it slipped my mind to do the usual ‘close the windows, lock the door’ routine. Considerably loud and dirty [time] ensues, and just as I let out that last satisfied moan I hear my neighbors on both sides (I had one window on either side of my bedroom windows, both apartments occupied by 2-3 college guys) start to cheer and clap for me. For a solid minute I lay frozen like a deer in the headlights as they applauded my grand finale. My SO thought it was most hilarious thing that had ever happened, and I just wanted to go hide.
Mine happened very quickly. It was the third day of orientation, and I got up early that morning. I decided, since I was up, I might as well go do something, and I left my dorm and wandered over to the nearby shopping street. I went to a Starbucks there and bought a cup of coffee. Then, I walked back to my dorm and sat down in one of the easy chairs in the common room, just sipping my coffee and waiting for everybody to get up. I don’t know why, but this all struck me as really awesome. I guess, until then, I’d been used to having my life controlled by other things, my parents, school, etc. In a weird way, this was the first action I’d ever made completely on my own, and it was amazing. Still one of the happiest moments I can remember.
In college, I lived in a dorm as a freshman, but moved off campus into an apartment the next year. One night, after getting completely obliterated and blacking out, I walked back to my old dorm room, (I assume) thinking that was where I still lived, climbed up onto the top bunk of a bunkbed, and went to sleep. I woke up the next morning, trying to figure out what happened and why I wasn’t in my own bed, looked around and saw a guy sitting at his computer. “Where am I?” I asked. He just turned and looked at me with a big smile on his face and said, “College, man. College.”.
I went from being able to cruise through exams/coursework to actually having to pay attention and work hard.
I was in college ~2 weeks before loosing my virginity. And then I woke up next to a different girl the next weekend, and so on…
Also, the first time me and my roomie met our RA was the week before classes started so we had nothing to do really. It was the middle of the afternoon, we were drunk and walking around inside of the building with a wild pigeon my roommate somehow caught with his bare hands, when we bumped into her…
On the first night we got called into one of the higher flats to play Kings cup. After every single person had whiteyed out the window (except me, actually, because I’m irish), one of the lads wondered if the scissors were sharp, cut his arm open and an ambulance was called while I held the muscle up.
He went to the club once his 15 stitches were sorted, pulled a girl from the building who punched him in the face, breaking his nose the following night.
He’s pretty much the best story guy ever.
I went to a small liberal arts college, needless to say the place was infested with children of rich people. We like to call those pseudo-hippies “trustafarians”. I’m standing in the smoking area my first week of college, listening to a chick talk about how chicken nuggets give you cancer. While she was smoking an American Spirit. Welcome to hypocrisy.
My mother INSISTED that we hit the road at 5:25am to “beat the traffic” nearing my campus. Ended up on campus at 7:45am, with move in to the dorms beginning at 9:00am. After carrying our first few loads of dorm supplies to the door until they unlocked it, I was approached by a lady resembling Veronica Corningstone. She approached me and asked if I was an incoming freshman, willing to interview. “Absolutely!” I say. It was aired all day on the local news, and people recognized me for the first week or so, especially the faculty and RAs living in my dorm. I was borderline famous, for a wee bit. Thanks Mom!
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