10 Stories Every College Kid Has

July 16, 2011 1:00 pm     Posted in College  Alyson g+ page

Who remembers awkward snuggling!?

No matter if your school is comprised of baseball caps or plaid shirts, pearls or feather earrings, Big 10 football or frolf; there are some stories from college that cease to differ. When you put thousands of kids aged 18-22 in a close proximity for four years, there are going to be repeat offenses and plenty of stories to tell from them. The list below is composed of the top 10 stories from your average college kid- the embarrassing, the awkward, and (unfortunately) the frequent.


By Alyson

1. Omg well MY roommate…
Even if you and the roommates become best buds for life, there is always that one annoying thing he or she does that always manages to come out when you’re studying for your Biological Anthropology final. These habits could range from moderately annoying (like replaying the same 4 songs on loop at a creepily quiet level) to excruciatingly annoying (like sexiling you every night for two weeks straight, and leaving the proof everywhere). We’ve all got our stories, and we all love to one-up each other in conversations arguing over who had it worse.

2. Sloppy drunk you don’t remember
Again, I understand there are exceptions to this one as well. There are the few [lame] college students who do not touch a drink during their four years at college. However, for the rest of us, the majority has at least one story where we completely embarrassed ourselves in a drunken haze of a night. Whether it’s public vomiting or humiliating declarations, there are probably stories better left forgotten. Which brings me to my next story…

3. The awkward hook up
…pretty self explanatory. It’s the guy or girl you meet randomly a night out, s/he seems pretty cute and s/he is giving pretty obvious signs. You figure, why not? It’s college after all! Except the hookup wasn’t so great, you find out he/she was hooking up with one of your friend’s friends and they’re still kind of together, or in the middle you completely forget his/her name. I could go on and on and on…so many bad things can happen. Mostly likely you’ll have multiple (albeit, hilarious) stories. Which also leads to… (can you just notice my awesome flow for a sec?!)

4. Eye contact game
…awkward eye contact! Sorry if I sound strangely excited about this one- it’s my favorite to talk about. College is ALL about knowing when and when not to make eye contact with someone. We all play this strange little game where our “best friend” from the night before is approaching and we’re not sure if this person even remembers meeting us. What do we do? We avoid, avoid, avoid. Look at that fascinating pebble, leaf, or …sky? Someone probably texted you, you should check. If you forgot your phone, you should probably look through your bag for it. However, sometimes we can’t be so sly or we’re caught off guard. This is the time when you give the weak half-smile that you would give to any other stranger, giving them the opening to make a move, or to say “hi” (probably not though). Which also leads me to…

5. Pretentious, (so naturally) scary professor
… okay yeah, my good flow kind of ends here. This one is a little less scandalous. But everyone I have talked to has at least one story of a professor who was completely full of it. The professor that thought his class was the only one you were taking and you obviously wanted to spend all your free time writing that 20 page paper and studying for the midterm that was all due in a week. The professor whose office hours you’re afraid to go to (even though he tells you he “won’t bite”) and whose class you were even more afraid of making a sound in because Prof. Scary has written five books, all of which he assigns and all of which you haven’t read.

6. Staying up too late doing work and slowly losing your sanity
These are the moments where you really hope college pays off. You spend all night studying for those three midterms- and in exchange you lose a little bit of your soul…or sanity. This is usually exaggerated when friends surround you and you have someone who’s losing his/her soul and sanity right by your side as well.

7. Skipping class just ‘cuz
Whether it’s from a bad hangover, 30 degree weather or just sheer laziness, we’ve all had those moments where we want to exercise our freedom from accountability in high school and skip class just because we can. And why not? Those slides are put online anyway and no one will notice if 1 in 400 is missing.

8. Ditching the crazy friend
In the beginning of freshmen year, we’re all so desperate and nervous to make friends that we base these new-found friendships on proximity. The closer the classmates are to us, the faster we become their friends. However, as I’ve found out through my years in college, location is not the best indicator of a bffl. Everyone can relate to befriending someone who seemed normal at first, but then became really crazy really fast, or just batshit insane. It happens. By second semester you probably don’t even acknowledge that person on campus. And you know what? That’s okay.

9. “Almost” getting busted pregaming
This story mostly applies to freshmen year. You’re so excited to finally be in college and are ready to go crazy. You want to go out every night and you don’t care who knows! …Except maybe your socially awkward RA. There’s always at least one time when your pregame gets a little too loud for comfort and there’s a knock on the door. Is it the RA? Is it just another drunken friend wandering in? Either way everyone is shushed, hides his or her drinks (that’s gonna work), and turns down the music. Whether it is the friend or the RA, whether one gets busted or not, everyone has the story where it was “such a close call…we almost were written up!”

10. Eating your anxieties, excitements and failures
This is probably another one of my personal favorites and probably one I can relate easiest to. There was a moment freshman year when I realized that I forgot what it felt like to be hungry. Seriously. Between unlimited dining dollars and a constant supply of snacks stashed under the bed; mindless eating freshman year (and sometimes beyond) might be the most common story of all…and the weight-gain that quickly followed.

30 Comments on "10 Stories Every College Kid Has"

  1. Kaila says:
    Sat, 16th Jul 20113:57 pm 

    Excuse me, but I don't necessarily think a student is lame because you don't drink in college…

  2. DrunkMcGee says:
    Sat, 16th Jul 20114:17 pm 

    Um, yeah they are.

  3. Disappointed Reader says:
    Sat, 16th Jul 20116:16 pm 

    I've got your back on this one. It upsets me to no end how some people continue to perpetuate these college stereotypes. It sucks anyway that you think about. I have met many kids in my past two years of college who literally admitted that they drink, not because they enjoy it but because it's deemed the "social norm". Then there's folks like me who don't want to get involved with the "drinking and casual hookups" college culture and we are then considered "lame" and "socially awkward" for having morals and self decency. Honestly I can't stand being around people for more than two minutes who feed into this negative stereotype. College should be about so much than making reckless decisions. And some wonder why American children seem to be behind the other developed countries. Our sense of values are completely in the wrong place.

  4. chopitbreakitdown says:
    Sat, 16th Jul 20117:11 pm 

    lol morals….
    the life we live is how we created it, morals are no different from soda cans, television shows, democracy and socialism: everything is manufactured and fabricated in our world. dislike this if you like, but the fact that we all fall right back into “place” proves this.

    good read haha

  5. Angela says:
    Sat, 16th Jul 20117:50 pm 

    I go to a dry college in a dry town but when I'm home on break I drink. I have to say that I have way more fun with my friends at school when we're sober than with my friends at home when we're drinking.

  6. Northerner says:
    Sat, 16th Jul 201110:15 pm 

    you skip for 30 degree (F, I'm assuming) weather… seriously? That's my definition of warm from Dec-March where I go to school.

  7. Tanya says:
    Sat, 16th Jul 201110:44 pm 

    Whether or not someone drinks is the person's business and theirs' alone. If y'all are having soo much fun drinking, feel free to not comment on the fact that we're not. Us being sober shouldn't detract from your buzz :-)

  8. Miriam says:
    Sun, 17th Jul 20114:44 pm 

    "There are the few [lame] college students who do not touch a drink during their four years at college."

    Fuck you, College Candy.

    Also, re: "crazy friends," if you're referring to people with mental illnesses, you should know that one in three college students report having periods of prolonged depression, and one in four report having had suicidal feelings at one time or another. And these stats are from 2004 (http://www.nami.org/Content/ContentGroups/Press_Room1/20041/August3/Mental_Illness_Prolific_Among_College_Students.htm) , and newer research shows that these rates are increasing. Rather than making fun of and ditching "crazy" people, try some goddamn compassion for a change.

    So, great job shaming not even one but TWO categories of people in one article, both of which I happen to fit into. I don't even know why I read this site anymore. Clearly, if I don't drink and suffer from depression, I'm not welcome here because I'm lame and crazy. Screw you.

  9. Lily says:
    Sun, 17th Jul 20118:01 pm 

    Right on Miriam! I can’t believe how intolerant CC is. If you don’t drink, act promiscuous, dress in expensive clothes (budget stylista my arse), if you participate in some sort of religion, if you don’t experience depression (and I don’t mean the “OMG, my bf cheated on me” or “OMG, I want this shirt but I can’t buy it” kind if ordeal), College Candy now considers you a “lame excuse” for a human being. After this, I am done with this blog. I wouldn’t mind if there new more different views in this website but it seems like the message is all the same “Let’s get wasted (even though we are underage) and hook up with every guy who even breathes in our direction”.

    CC talks about how we shouldnt slut shame but yet, they shame anyone who has some kind of morals in them or have something tragic happen in their lives where they don’t want to do all the “crazy college things” every 18-24 crowd seems to do.

  10. Miriam says:
    Sun, 17th Jul 20119:51 pm 

    Also, I love how our posts are getting voted down just because our comments aren't "OMG totes agreeee!"

  11. Alex says:
    Sun, 17th Jul 201110:13 pm 

    That was a pretty offensive article. Definitely not a fan of the last one where you 'forgot' what hunger felt like. What about all the students who don't have limitless meal plans and stashes of snacks, but instead budget like crazy or end up waiting in line at the food bank just to eat that week? I'm pretty sure the vast majority of students don't have this weirdly idyllic and stereotypical college experience – and from this article, it seems like a pretty sad and lame for years and I'm glad I don't have stories like these to share.

  12. Lizz says:
    Mon, 18th Jul 201112:29 am 

    Wow I think you are completely overreacting to the crazy friend thing. When was depression even mentioned in that paragraph? Depression does not equate being the crazy friend but I guess in your mind it does. Some people just have overbearing personalities and not everyone is cut out to befriend someone like that. Whatever kind of person they were referring to, I doubt they were specifically trying to call out people with mental illnesses. Lighten up and don't go straight to negative next time.

  13. Lily says:
    Mon, 18th Jul 201112:40 am 

    If only there were some college-girl website where there are more to talk about besides “hot” but superficial frat boys, wild parties (where young freshman girls end up getting abducted because they don’t know how to limit themselves), sloppy hookups, and even sloppier fashion. Only about 5% of of the CC articles are smart or at least meant not to be taken seriously.

    The rest of the readers are free to disagree with our opinions but there really is no need to bash others for having different views and mindsets or call us lame or whatever.

  14. Miriam says:
    Mon, 18th Jul 20118:35 am 

    Words like "crazy" and "batshit insane" are often used to stigmatize people with mental illnesses, so if that's not what the author of this post meant, she should at least use more sensitive language.

  15. Disappointed Reader says:
    Mon, 18th Jul 201110:04 am 

    Wow! This is refreshing based on all of the "OMG totes agreeee!" responses that I see all across this site I was really beginning to feel that I was apart of a rare breed of college girls who look at college as an opportunity to learn, grow and make lasting friendships instead of a time that I will look back on and surely regret. I wish there was a group for the "anti-drinking non-promiscuous" and you wouldn't have to be affiliated with one particular religion. Oh, well it's nice to hear from you all anyway if you do stick around here keep letting your voice be heard. Not all of us college girls fall into these awful stereotypes.

  16. Allison says:
    Mon, 18th Jul 20112:01 pm 

    Woah, I recommend most of you ned a drink to take the edge off. This is obviously supposed to be humorous. If you don't like it, go elsewhere. I personally found the article entertaining and spot-on.

  17. Jacquien says:
    Mon, 18th Jul 20112:54 pm 

    would you "dry" students stop being little bitches about the lame comment. its the writers opinion if he thinks non-drinkers are lame and wanted to put that in the article. if you have a problem with it, that's your own fault for being insecure and letting something that little affect you. I mean for god sakes, i'm about to be a sophomore in college, and i drink pretty heavily a lot of the weekends. but there are some weekends where i just don't drink at all. the writer is trying to be funny here, so just lighten up a bit and go with the joke.

  18. CC editor says:
    Mon, 18th Jul 20113:09 pm 

    Hi Lily,

    We try very hard to make sure we're presenting diverse articles every single day.

    For example today's line up includes: regrettable trends, a tooth whitening kit giveaway, a blog about getting out of your workout slump, current events (written with the busy college student in mind), a link round-up focused on health and wellness, versatile style, this blog will change your life (a blog about setting fun challenges), a blog about the top college myths incoming freshman are told, and an interview with Giuliana Rancic.

    If you have suggestions for what you would like to see on here, we'd love to here them. We want to be the site for EVERY college girl. Email us at editor (at) collegecandy (dot) com.

  19. helloooo says:
    Mon, 18th Jul 20114:48 pm 

    wow, this is overreacting at its finest! i can't believe everyone's taking this so close to heart!! i thought the article was great and i can't relate to every story but it is a lot of what college kids go through, NOT ALL, JUST QUITE A BIT. it's rather dumb to get mad at someone for simply writing about experiences most colleges students have. not everyone is as sensitive to certain things as others are and the writer shouldn't have to leave things out that might (semi-irrationally) irritate readers. we're in college! let's all grow up and not be overly sensitive about non-issues!

    i really enjoyed the article :)

  20. helloooo says:
    Mon, 18th Jul 20114:50 pm 

    nit-picky as fuck

  21. helloooo says:
    Mon, 18th Jul 20114:52 pm 

    oh and what would you suggest? i'm really curious

  22. Lily says:
    Tue, 19th Jul 20116:08 pm 

    Jacquien, this is exactly what I’m talking about. There is no need to be calling anyone dry little bitches.

    We’re not necessarily overreacting as we are just stating an opinion and how offensive this article was.

    Yes, I can agree with the majority of the college expriences that Alyson listed but there was no reason for her to call people lane and socially awkward because they take an education more seriously than the latest frat party. College is meant to be a place of learning and institution. If you’re seeking debauchery, then go sign up for MTV’s The Real World.

    Also, I used to be a bartender so when underage college kids try to trick me with a fake ID, it’s very frustrating (and sometimes even dangerous). I gve kudos to the young college/high school students who don’t drink underage because t makes my job a whole lot easier.

  23. Lily says:
    Tue, 19th Jul 20116:14 pm 

    And thank you CC editor for your concerns. I think what’s missing on this website are more intelligent articles (I love the current events cheat sheets) and articles to empower all types of young women, not just the ugly sorority sister (or soroity sis wannabe) stereotype. The real world is just so much closer than you college girls think and the real world will not put up with this childish bullish*t so I think it’s time for us to all start acting like adults, not overgrown, bratty princesses.

  24. Lizzie says:
    Wed, 20th Jul 20119:05 am 

    I'm a college student in my second year and the novelty of drinking has worn off. It's not lame if you decide not to drink, maybe you're just tired from poisoning your liver and want a break. Also, I'm from England where the drinking starts early and most people mature out of it.

  25. Lizzie says:
    Wed, 20th Jul 20119:06 am 

    agreed

  26. Mel says:
    Fri, 22nd Jul 201112:20 pm 

    As a student starting my third year in university I do drink, but I have several friends who don't and I know they don't feel any pressure to from me. I feel like this article would have gotten a much better response if you had just left out the word lame. It was not merely insensitive but rude. It was obviously going to be taken the wrong way and I'm sure had you just left out that word people wouldn't have gotten so upset. They would have simply thought "oh, I can't relate to that point but I can to some of the others" and would have let things be.

    As a writer you should obviously not need to censor yourself but think of who you're writing for and consider their feelings.

  27. Mike says:
    Sat, 23rd Jul 20118:58 pm 

    My God you people are annoying. I have no problem with people not drinking or staying sober at parties or anything, half my school is sober due to religious or personal reasons, I go to medical school so alot of people are Indian or Muslum.
    What I do have a problem with is all you people associating people drinking alcohol as being "slutty, promiscuous, frat-boy types," and everyone who doesn't is of course completely puritan.
    HAHAHAHAHAHA.
    That is completely false. I have met slutty, annoying, just generally retarded people from all sides of the fence.
    Personally I drink. In extremely large quantities. Very often.
    I don't take it as an offensive remark if someone jokingly calls me an alcoholic, or asks when they see me in the hallway and ask what number shot I'm on.
    It's just a joke losers. Don't be so insecure to take every little comment as a personal attack.
    So I don't see why all of you have suddenly verbally gangbanged this author because she made a joke towards your particular lifestyle. A joke which I found pretty funny by the way.
    Especially if you're like 30, why the fuck do you care at this point anyway? Seriously get a life.

    Oh and by the way for you people who were all "I was one of those rare people who actually learned during college," me and my roommates have over 30 bottles in our room from last semester, and we all pulled over 3.5 GPA's in organic chemistry, genetics, biostatistics, and HMS.
    So it is possible to actually drink and not be a moron. Talk about that one at your next lonely hearts meeting.

  28. Honey Badger says:
    Sun, 20th Nov 201111:00 pm 

    The awkward hook up? Because every girl in college is a slut. No thank you.

  29. Grow Some Balls says:
    Thu, 16th Feb 20124:20 pm 

    I love all this unnecessary self-righteous anger

  30. Big Willy says:
    Thu, 19th Apr 201210:47 pm 

    Wow this article was quite humerous, except for you cynical downers who should go back to their “dry” schools and lives they know they hate.

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