Lessons I have gotten out of University life.

Dorm life has taught me several very important things, which include:

Sleep is overrated: In Dorm life there is no one that goes to bed before 9pm. I don’t care what time you had class in the morning…the reality is that if you went to bed early, you went to bed at half past eleven. Why? Because there is always something that needs to be done (or something that would be fun to do) or you get caught up talking to people until 5 am. This brings me to my second point,

Naps are awesome at any time: sleepy at 11am? Take a nap. Since you didn’t go to bed until 3am last night, and woke up at 7 to get to your 8:00 class it is completely reasonable and not at all uncommon to take a nap at 11am, before your noon class. This concept also applies to afternoon naps at, say, 6pm. If you are going out partying at 8pm but are tired, take a nap from 6-7 and you still have an hour to get ready! My best nap, by the way, took place between 7:30 and 8:30 am.

Free things are always superior: It doesn’t matter that if you had to pay for that coffee, you would never drink it. If it’s free, it’s the best coffee you have ever drunk. In your life. The reason behind this is… IT IS FREE!!! Students are short in cash. This is a fact. And as a wise Oliver once said, “I have pocket money. It is the money I have in my pocket.”

Home cooked meals at their worst are better than caf food: Even when you were given toast, cheese and chips at home, that was better than this. Even on good days at the cafeteria, students will find a way to have problems with it. The food is too greasy, there are way too many people, the music selection is horrible, and the food is always the same. And so on and so forth.

Clothes are not dirty until the third time used: Doing laundry is hell. When you get to your dorm you acquire a new sense to what is clean and what isn’t. Suddenly clothes that you would have considered dirty when you were home are now wearable for at least two more outings. (On a tangent, a serious one… You also learn to look in your pockets before you wash your clothes.) Some people actually think it is acceptable to wear the same shirt two times in a row.