12 Things You Only Do When You Are A Student  

Being a student is glorious, you don’t have a care in the world. All you have to worry about is printing essays off in time for deadlines. You wake up at midday, eat some very unhealthy food, attempt to attend a lecture and then spend your evening watching Netflix (or getting mind numbingly drunk).   During your time at university, you may find you develop strange habits and start to behave strangely. Everything seems like an effort and you don’t want to have to pay for real food. These lazy habits and extreme money-saving tactics are the norm at university, but once you leave they somehow become unacceptable again. norm at university, but once you leave they somehow become unacceptable again. 

Here are 12 things you only do when you are a student.     

1. Leave our house in pyjamas

To anyone else in the world, leaving the house in your pyjamas is the ultimate sin. It’s just not cool. At uni on the other hand you will gain respect for it. Turning up to a lecture in your pyjama bottoms and a hoodie is standard. The lecturers have gotten used to it.   uni on the other hand you will gain respect for it. Turning up to a lecture in your pyjama bottoms and a hoodie is standard. The lecturers have gotten used to it.   

2. Drink bizarre colour drinks

Only when you are a student will you willingly put alcoholic beverages with copious amounts of chemicals and sugar into your body. As if the ghastly colour wasn’t enough of a warning sign.    

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3. Leave angry notes about housework (or receive them)

One of your housemates is not doing any housework or tidying up after themselves. It’s getting disgusting so you leave a very angry post it note.      

4. Wear the same outfit three ways

Washing your clothes is just too hard, and besides this isn’t a fashion show. No one cares if you are in the same outfit again.    

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5. Live in hoodies

University brand hoodies are the best thing since sliced bread. You order four in different colours as soon as you get to uni and you live in them throughout winter. You even wear them in the holidays at home because you are proud to wear your uni hoodie.   

6. Use shampoo as shower gel

Not only does it cost money to replace your shower gel when it runs out but it’s just so darn hard to go to the supermarket and purchase some more. Shampoo does the same thing anyway, doesn't it?    

7. Wear leggings as actual trousers

Ladies at university feel it is perfectly acceptable to leave the house in see through leggings. They are just so comfy and go with everything.    

8. Live off microwave meals and instant noodles

You can manage boiling the kettle and pouring water into your pot noodle, and some days you even use the microwave but cooking an actual meal would feel like running a marathon.   

9. Nap three to four times a day

Got a spare moment? Nap. When you are a student you just feel so damn tried all the time. You did one hour of work, you obviously deserve a nap.  

10. Sleep in until 3pm

As soon as you enter the real world you will be waking up at 7am to go to a real job. You will wonder how you wear ever able to sleep in that long at university. 

11. Eat baked beans out the tin for lunch

It’s safe to eat baked beans cold and you can’t be bothered to wait to eat them. They taste pretty awful but fill a hole, job done.    

12. Turn up late for everything

Everyone turns up late for lectures so you gradually learn that at university it’s fine to be late for most things, except exams.