35 Things They Refuse To Teach You In High School That You Learn Pretty Much Immediately In College
Once you start college, you'll learn...
1. Things will fly. Oh, they'll fly:
every high school teacher: that shit won’t fly in college that shit in college: 🦅🛫🦉🐝🦇🚀🛸🚁
— Bleek Gilliam 🎺😎 (@Choppayoung89) August 3, 2023
2.The tuba will open a lot of doors:
3.8 a.m. is way too early:
4. Post-skip depression is real:
Y’all ever skip class and then have the post skip class depression? Like damn i should’ve just went
— Keylan M. Chapman (@Dtxmarcellee) February 5, 2019
5. Assigned seats are a state of mind:
High school: "Assigned seating is so dumb."College: "Why is he sitting in my seat? That's my seat... I sit there everyday.”
— Courtney Jonaitis (@c_jonaitis) January 22, 2021
6. Your group will always betray you:
Welcome to college. Where every single person is smarter than you except for the 3 people in your group project.
— Casey Wright 🍉 (@WrightToLife) October 11, 2018
7.You will forget something very, very important:
8. Every dollar is well spent:
"How do you describe college?"I'm teaching myself a class that I'm paying for.
— kishan solanki (@Kishan_388) December 10, 2023
9.You gotta take a nap:
10.You NEED to be specific:
11. Liquor bottles are not a decoration:
to whoever needed to see this:throw away your empty liquor bottles, they’re not decor
— COMIC DOCTOR 🇿🇼👩⚕️ (@tavonga_chinez) June 15, 2021
12.You're gonna live in mystery:
13.Your schedule will be super, super tight:
14. Sometimes, you just gotta leave:
Yesterday a girl walked into class with an iced coffee and my prof told her she couldn’t have it so she just walked out and never came back and I can’t stop thinking about it
— Rachel Walters (@rachelhelenw) January 31, 2019
15.Professors are super straight shooters:
16.The smallest things matter:
17.All the Wi-Fi network names in dorms will give you great joy:
18. Nothing bonds two people closer than a late night Google doc rendezvous:
When you see another classmate on the same google doc at 2 am pic.twitter.com/f5ZBFTddBV
— Jeffery Werkins (@JefferyWerkins) March 20, 2021
19.Someone is always going to be more confused than you:
20.There are two types of professors:
21. Sometimes, a 52 is a-ok:
My first college test I got a 68 and actually cried in the classroom.Today I got a 52 on an exam and I took myself out for chicken tenders
— gabbi (@thisbegrm) October 26, 2017
22.The unexplainable will happen:
23. Professors will just straight up be on another planet:
our professor was 20 minutes into lecture before realizing 1. he wasn’t sharing his slides 2. he wasn’t recording the lecture 3. he had his computer muted so he couldn’t hear us 4. wasn’t checking the chat and 5. had his phone on silent so the TAs couldn’t get ahold of him hahaha
— javi (@jcove__) March 12, 2020
24.It's way better than middle school:
25. Not everyone finds what they're looking for:
How do people find their soul mate in the first 2 months of college it took me 4 months just to find the administration building
— Julia (@julliiab) January 21, 2016
26. It's the weird people who have it together:
It’s funny how in high school we judged everyone but in college you see someone riding past you on a razor scooter wearing a Snuggie and it’s like “ that is a smart man”
— 𝕾𝖊𝖗𝖌𝖎𝖔 𝕯𝖊𝖑𝖌𝖆𝖉𝖔 (@_supersergio) September 20, 2023
27.Professors will vary widely:
28. People really don't care:
a tip for everyone starting their freshman year of college soon: nobody cares about you. did u just trip in front of a few people? no one gives a shit. are u lost? don’t be afraid to ask a random person. no one cares. about anything. we’re all dead here.
— Akshay Singh Thakur (@st_akshay) February 23, 2018
29. Parking will be your number one enemy:
Parents need to stop encouraging their kids to go to college because there is just not enough parking to go around
— The Common Man (@tcm97) July 16, 2018
30."Office hours" has a flexible meaning:
31. The most wonderful time of year is also the most stressful:
going to school inbetween thanksgiving and christmas break feels like the last lap in mario kart where the music is all fast and gets really stressful
— hannah (@supersendsauce) November 26, 2018
32. 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
— s*d (@06fordexplorer) March 3, 2019
33. Your dreams ain't comin' true:
The girl next to me is talking on the phone and says “my first day of classes as a freshman is over, isn’t it crazy that in just 4 years I’ll be working at my dream job” ....should I tell her?
— Lexi (@alexuslemasters) August 14, 2018
34. 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”
— lesbian mothman 🇵🇸 (@verysmallriver) November 1, 2018
35. And passing is all that really matters:
Me in HS: yeah I’m involved in 16 clubs, have a 4.0 and I’m on 4 sports teams Me now: so good news, I’m passing
— JackJerry (@jack_jerry07) April 3, 2019
