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19 ABSURD Things 90s College Students Did That College Kids Today Would Never Know

19. You got your first email address from the university. Your parents set one up too, just so they could write to you (even though they had no idea how to use it). 18. You shared a landline with your roommate, and ONE of you was always hogging it. If it wasn’t them, we’ve got some bad news for you… 17. You were ALWAYS fighting with your roommate over how to split the phone bill. Because YOU certainly didn’t call someone in Wichita at 2:30 a.m. 16. Smoking was totally allowed in your dorm room. In fact, it was weird if you WEREN’T smoking. 15. At one point in time, you or someone you knew had a totally rad “Pulp Fiction” poster hanging in their dorm room. …and you still probably think it’s the best movie of all time. 14. You probably knew someone that collected Calvin Klein ads too. Was

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5 Painfully True Facts High School Students Should Know About College

As a college freshman who is just about to end my first year, I am proud to say I survived. Looking back at high school, I never quite understood my teachers when they’d tell us college wasn’t going to be a walk in the park. I used to see tons of tweets from my friends who had graduated about their all nighters the week before finals, but I thought that would be the only big adjustment from high school to college life. Oh man, was I wrong. Here are 5 things all high school students should know about college: 5.) No more cheat sheets. In high school it was easy to get by with A’s and B’s without studying at all. Sure, there was the occasional “big test” you made a few flash cards for, but even that was rare. Senior year of high school, I graduated with all A’s after doing

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5 Reasons Why Every Dorm Should Have a Dorm Dog

There are times where my hallmates and I yearn to have a furry companion to distract us from our boring physics textbook or long coding assignments. We could just go to the other side of town to Petland. The only problem is, none of us have a car that is available to us at the touch of a button because unfortunately, in Iowa City there is no Uber. So instead we look up pictures of fluffy dogs and even sometimes ~gasp~ CATS. But this does not appease our need for a ball of fur to be yipping and whining for our attention. The solution is to give rescue dogs homes in the dorms on campus. Now, I know there can be some downsides to this, but just look at the positive things that can come of it! 1.The Dog (and College Students) will never be lonely. The dog will always

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The 11 Stages of Pulling an All-Nighter for That Paper You Ignored

New semester, new me! Every time that new class schedule arrives, you promise yourself that things will be different; this semester, you’ll get all your work done well ahead of time so you can just relax when those big due dates roll along. And, of course, you never follow through. With friends, clubs, other classes, and our good friend Netflix, it seems impossible to fit in that huge project those the final weeks before it’s due! As the night before the deadline arrives, you know you’ll just have to bang it out in one big session. But that session never really goes according to plan, and you become trapped in the 11 stages of pulling an all-nighter: Unrealistic Optimism All right, so you’ve been procrastinating on that big project for weeks and it’s due tomorrow morning. But why stress? You can crank out that bad boy in no time. You grab a cup of coffee,

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To My First Ever College Friend, Thank You

To my first friend, my current friend, and my forever friend, thank you. Thank you for walking into my life during one of the scariest times ever– the first time leaving home and being in a place that I’ve never been before not knowing a single soul– and being my comfort blanket through it all. There’s no one else I could have awkwardly Facebook messaged, met up with at orientation, and hung out with before school even started without it being the most uncomfortable thing ever. There was just something about you that made me know for sure that we would be friends not only for the four years of college we had together but always, no matter what. Thank you for being my home away from home Being dropped off in a strange place for the first time is never easy, and even though you weren’t from back home, something about