1. You have a roommate (unless you went to boarding school in high school)
2. What you do matters
3. You are in complete control of your life
4. Breakfast bars become your best friend
5. You either nap everyday or not at all
6. You are paying immeasurable amounts of money for each class
7. People care, for the most part
8. You can follow your dreams
9. You can eat all you want
10. You sleep in a less than comfortable bed
11. Because of your less than comfortable bed, you invest in some super comfortable mattress toppers
12. You join the textbook black market to try to find those cheap books
13. Unlike high school, where you went in the library once maybe in all your four years, you spend your entire life in the library
14. You start to love your alone time
15. You start to love hanging out with friends
16. You hang out with friends way too much and end up falling behind in classes
17. But then you discover the joys of getting food with someone, and using the rest of the time for homework.
18. When you have free time, there are so many things you could do, but you normally just watch Netflix
19. You become either a tea or coffee addict (and sometimes both)
20. Dressing up and going into town with your friends is a rare but special occurrence after your freshman year
21. Every year in college you barely keep your head above water in classwork, but then the next year comes and the pervious year seems like a breeze
22. After your freshmen year, you and your roommate(s) don’t even try to coordinate
23. There are acronyms for everything…and you learn them all
24. When you come back home and visit people in high school, you feel left out because of all the lingo you don’t understand
25. When your friends from high school come visit, they feel left out because of all the lingo they don’t understand
26. You and your friends can take 2am trips to Cookout and it is perfectly normal. In fact, you’ll probably run into someone else from your school thinking the same thing.
27. Facebook is a little more appealing now
28. You struggle to keep Snapchat streaks
29. You come to school with all these intentions of things you want to do when you have free time, but then you never have free time
30. It is more accepted to drink underage
31. That doesn’t mean you have to
32. The friends you meet in college will be in your wedding someday
33. It is now more social acceptable to take weekend trips just cause
34. Sleep is just a mystical thing that only existed when you were a freshman
35. You start to horde food in your room
36. Your dishes overflow until someone gets tired of it and cleans them all
37. FaceTiming your pets is no longer weird
38. Actually, nothing is really weird in college. You can basically do whatever you want
39. People have the best, and most comfortable styles.
40. You suddenly care about your school
41. When you go home, it is basically all you talk about
42. Summer is a weird time because you are back in your parents’ house(s), but not to stay
43. You start to think that even ramen noodle is expensive
44. You start to respect all your parents did for you–like the dishes and the laundry
45. It seems like you have avoided the Freshmen 15 until someone posts a TBT from your high school graduation
46. You make spare of the moment plans
47. All or most of your college friends are a short walk away
48. You see a reason for all your classes
49. You start to appreciate education
50. You finally understand what all the hype was about

Do you have any other differences between high school and college? Let me know in the comments below!