You know you've been in college too long when...
- You price shop for Spaghetti-Os.
- You consider ramen a culinary accomplishment.
- You consider mac & cheese a balanced meal.
- You consider McDonald's 'real food.'
- Eating month-old bread doesn't faze you.
- If given a choice between buying bread and beer, you choose beer.
- When adding up your monthly expenses, you don't forget to include cover
charge and beer money.
- Showering becomes more and more optional every day.
- Sleeping becomes more important than anything else.
- You can argue for hours about the symbolism found in various episodes of
"The Simpsons," but a two-page paper on an entire book is totally beyond
you.
- You live in a house with three couches, none of which match.
- You write a check for forty-five cents.
- You have a fine collection of domestic beer bottles.
- Your glass set is composed of McDonald's Extra Value Meal Plastic Cups
(i.e., Olympic Dream Team I or II).
- Your underwear and sock supplies dictate the time between laundry
loads.
- Laundry becomes a major financial decision.
- You actually like doing laundry at home.
- You wear dirty socks three times in a row and think nothing of it.
- You can't remember the last time you washed your car.
- You can pack your worldly possessions into the back of a pickup (one
load).
- You have seen two consecutive sunrises without sleeping.
- 4:00am is still early on the weekends (or on weeknights for Computer
Science majors).
- Two miles is not too far to walk for a party.
- Anything is a reason for a party.
- The words, "I'm REALLY stupid for going out tonight," come out of your
mouth at least once a week, usually after your third or fourth shot.
- You think being drunk is a state of mind.
- You know how to get puke stains out of your clothes.
- Knowing someone's last name (or first name for frat boys) isn't necessarily
a requirement for going home with them.
- You become territorial over toilet/shower stalls.
- You'd rather clean than study.
- Half the time you don't wake up in your own bed and it seems normal.
- You know how to sleep comfortably in a single bed (or on a couch or
loveseat) with another person.
- You schedule your classes around sleep habits and TV programs.
- You know all the pizza guys by name.
- You know all the bouncers by name.
- You go to sleep when it's light and get up when it's dark.
- Looking out the window is a form of entertainment.
- Prank phone calls become funny again.
- It feels weird to take a shower without shoes on.
- Whole wars can take place, and you are clueless, because you maintain no
connection to the outside world.
- You start thinking and sounding like your roommate.
- Blacklights and highlighters are the coolest things on earth.
- Rearranging your room is your second-favorite passtime, next to
napping.
- You find out just how many uses milk crates have.
- Wal-Mart is the coolest store.
- The weekend lasts from Thursday to Sunday (or Wednesday morning to Tuesday
night).
- You are sitting around making lists about how you know you've been in
college too long.