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" Yes, there will be fun parties; yes, you&amp;#039;ll have tons of freedom; and yes, there&amp;#039;ll be some all-nighters at the libes. But movies and TV shows and all those people telling you it&amp;#039;ll be the best four years of you life can give you some slightly unrealistic ideas about the college experience. Don&amp;#039;t get us wrong, your time on campus will be awesome and life-changing, but it&amp;#039;s always best to be prepared. Here are some of the expectations you might have about starting college versus the reality of what it will really be like: Expectation: Hitting up awesome parties every night with your friends. #YOLO  Reality: Hanging out in a crowded dorm room with your hall mates until your RA breaks it up.  Expectation: No homework, endless chill time. YAAASSSS!  Reality: Being stuck at the library until 1 a.m. trying to get through the 500 pages of reading before your class the next morning. Expectation: Hanging with all your new besties all. the. time. Reality: Missing your high school friends and feeling like you&amp;#039;ll never find your peeps. (Don&amp;#039;t worry\u2014you will!) Expectation: Majoring in pre-med like you&amp;#039;ve planned ever since you decided you wanted to be a doctor at age 12.  Reality: Taking Organic Chemistry your first semester and realizing being a doctor is so not for you, and changing your major to Art History, then deciding that you actually want to major in dance before realizing you have no idea what you want to do.  Expectation: You and your roommate will be total besties!  Reality: You&amp;#039;ll eat together at the dining hall every day for the first week and may very well spend the rest of the year pretending each other doesn&amp;#039;t exist.  Expectation: Doing your own laundry like the mature, adult you are. Reality: Waiting until you run out of clean underwear to go home for the weekend so your mom will do your laundry. Expectation: Ditching class to finish your PLL marathon because you ~can~.  Reality: Skipping one class and feeling like you took a three-week vacation. How do they go over so much material in one day?!  Expectation: Sleeping in &amp;#039;till noon every day.  Reality: Trying to stay awake during your 8:30am lecture, which in college time, is like 5:30am. BRUTAL.  Expectation: Your dorm will look EXACTLY like it does in the ad.   Reality: Dorm room? More like a closet closet crammed with oddly-shaped, mismatched furniture.  Expectation: Not having to go to class all day means plenty of time for naps.  Reality: Living off Sbux while you try to cram a semester&amp;#039;s worth of reading into three days, and cursing all those naps you took instead of doing the assigned reading.  Expectation: Turning heads with all your super sophisticated new *college* outfits.  Reality: After week two, embracing sweatpants and a hoodie as an appropriate outfit for class, just like everybody else.  Expectation: Your pick of hot, mature college boys men to date.  Reality: Fratty dudes bumping into you and spilling drinks on your new shoes at crowded parties.  Do you have any more college expectations vs. realities to add to our list? Share them in the comments! MORE:  Your Ultimate College Packing List 10 Life Lessons You Learn From Being in a Sorority 11 Things You&amp;#039;ll Regret Not Doing in College  Photo Credit: Getty Images GIF Credits: Giphy.com "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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