Hey everyone, meet Timmy. Timmy is just your average, everyday incoming freshmen. As he packs his belongings into his parents Super-Duty Ford F350, he has one thought constantly flooding his mind – college starts tomorrow. This means a few things for Timmy. For starters, he will be living in a dorm on campus with his friends. That alone has him stoked for college. We all know this isn’t all sunshine and rainbows, and that he is sadly mistaken, but we will get to that.
After arriving, unloading, and unpacking all of little Timmy’s things, he kisses his mommy and daddy goodbye, closes the door to his apartment behind them, and collapses onto the generic twill couches of his dorm. It is then that Timmy has his first experience as a college kid, and brings us to the first item on our list of experiences that every college student endures in their first month:
1. Realizing your mommy and daddy are gone, and you are all alone. 
What will I have for dinner? My dirty clothes are beginning to pile up, when should I do laundry? These are all questions that Timmy will ask himself over the course of the next month. Chances are, rather than going to the grocery store to craft his own meals, he will end up succumbing to the big golden arches on main street and paying someone five-seventy-five to do all of that for him. Not living at home is a lot more work than Timmy had anticipated.
Fortunately, there are plus sides. Timmy soon realizes that he has no bedtime, meaning those late night Playstation sessions in the place of homework slowly become tradition. Also, lady-friends are allowed over now, which means Timmy’s make-out time increases. Timmy also likes making out in other locations, as well as his apartment, and why not? Mom and dad won’t ever find out. For more make out ideas, go check out our guide for the best places to make out.
As he and his roommates gather in their dorms, all equipped with McDonald’s meals, the conversation turns to a rather sensitive subject for every student at USU, which also ends up being the next thing on our list:
2. Hearing about the brutal winters of Logan, and fearing for your life.
As the conversation goes on, Timmy here starts to panic. “Last winter, it got to -17 degrees?” he asks, to which his roommate responds, “Hell yeah, it did. No amount of cardigans can protect you from that.”
Timmy’s attention eventually drifts out of the window. As he stares out the window, admiring all of the beautiful, green trees around campus, he is left wondering, “How can such a warm, beautiful place like this get so cold?” You wait, Timmy. Just wait…
As the first week draws to a close, Timmy begins to see a pattern amongst all of his professors – none of them care if he skips class. Which brings up our next experience:
3. Realizing that nobody cares if you skip class.
This is HUGE for Timmy. Now he can finally make some freakin’ progress on that Assassins Creed campaign, and just do his homework later. Not only that, but he no longer has to go to that stupid 7:30 class every single morning. College just got way better.
One week passes, and as Timmy finally decides to log on to canvas to do the weekly homework assignment, one thing becomes instantly clear – Timmy doesn’t know a single answer on the homework. He just realized our final point on the list:
4. …..Realizing the importance of going to class.
So there you have it, a few of the many experiences that each and every one of us have gone through in our own ways.
