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"1. &amp;quot;The Freshman 15.&amp;quot; In reality, it is more like the &amp;quot;Freshman 5.&amp;quot; Alcohol has calories but look, sometimes you&amp;#039;ll be too lazy to get out of bed on Sunday morning to actually acquire a bacon, egg, and cheese.   2. &amp;quot;These are the friends you&amp;#039;ll keep for life.&amp;quot; About two weeks after graduation, most of the people I didn&amp;#039;t care about keeping in touch with stopped keeping in touch. Simply move them to the category of people whose photos you will secretly look at on Facebook from time to time without deeply missing them.  3. &amp;quot;Nobody dates in college! You&amp;#039;ll only have casual sex.&amp;quot; Sure, sometimes you feel like everyone&amp;#039;s having casual sex and you&amp;#039;re not, but at least half of my friends had relationships and went on real actual dates. Some even talked on the phone with their love interests! All hope is not lost when it comes to millenial love. 4. &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;ll meet your husband!&amp;quot; Well, not everyone wants to meet their husband in college (keg stands are not always a recipe for &amp;quot;I want to reproduce with you!&amp;quot;), and that can be just as fulfilling as finding the elusive One. Half of my friends were happily one-night standing their way through school \u2014 and declaring they hated all the men on campus, but that&amp;#039;s part of the fun. 5. &amp;quot;Just be cordial to your roommate \u2014 that&amp;#039;s all you need to do to live with someone.&amp;quot; Getting along well with roommates is really about a million things, like taking turns cleaning the sink, not eating the other person&amp;#039;s peanut butter, and generally just not doing things that seriously gross the other person out or make them hate you. One tip that turned out to be true? &amp;quot;Don&amp;#039;t live with your best friend \u2014 it never ends well.&amp;quot; If you are a female on a college campus, you should absolutely never live with your best friend. About 96 percent of the time it ends TERRIBLY. 6. &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;ll never get a job.&amp;quot; People I know who are fresh out of college are actually managing to get themselves employed. Cheers to that! 7. &amp;quot;All-nighters are inevitable.&amp;quot; With some time management planning, you can often do everything you need to do by midnight. And if you can&amp;#039;t, don&amp;#039;t worry about it because don&amp;#039;t studies say you won&amp;#039;t take tests well if you&amp;#039;re sleep-deprived anyway? I managed to never pull an all-nighter in my life. 8. &amp;quot;You will feel so broke it hurts.&amp;quot; What hurts more than being college broke is being post-college broke. College World is a bubble fueled by hangovers and hint of lime Tostitos. Real World is struggling to find a job that will just take care of your car payments. 9. &amp;quot;If you&amp;#039;re doing college right, you&amp;#039;ll be too busy to watch TV.&amp;quot; I&amp;#039;m not even going to comment on this one. 10. And, of course, &amp;quot;these are the best four years of your life. Enjoy it while it lasts.&amp;quot; Yes, you&amp;#039;ll miss college. You&amp;#039;ll probably never just get entire summers off, or get to &amp;quot;study abroad&amp;quot; in France for four months once you enter the real world. You won&amp;#039;t shop for back-to-school clothes anymore. But fun and happiness persists past college. Plus, you won&amp;#039;t have to deal with so many stresses, like exams and paper deadlines, classes, party FOMO, etc. In many ways, after college, the best is yet to come.  Photo Credit: Code Entertainment For more from Tess, follow her @tessie_the_mess "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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