You know you’re a student when…
As I was sitting on a bench outside of the library the other day, contemplating the meaning of life, the most profound of thoughts dawned on me: I’m a student.
It took me four years to come to this realization. The hours spent commuting back and forth to this campus we call Trinity Western University wasn’t what tipped me off. The classes that I sat in, half-heartedly listening while I texted my friends weren’t it either. You know what finally clued me in? My lunch of unsalted peanuts.
If you can check off any one of these items, I suspect you may also be a student:
0) Your least favourite month of the year is October.
1) You eat unsalted peanuts for lunch.
2) You start drinking eight glasses of water a day—not because you’re thirsty, but because you know it will fill you up and water is free.
3) You’re out for dinner and you have to ask the server at the sushi place if the green tea costs money. If it doesn’t, that’s all you eat.
4) You wonder why you’re not losing weight, but as it turns out $0.99 President’s Choice macaroni and cheese might be low-cost, but it sure as heck isn’t low-cal.
5) You can afford to eat $10 meals in the cafeteria, but anything off-campus is too expensive.
6) You cry yourself to sleep (provided you sleep at all).
7) You wear sweatpants outside of the house/dorm room.
8) You’re not suicidal, but you have a plan “just in case.”
9) You look forward to your fourth year, and then once you’re there, you wish you could go back to when school was for making friends.
10) You’ve finally gotten to know your roommate, and you realize you hate them.
11) The only person you hate more than your roommate is their significant other (and everyone else involved in creating and maintaining the university that you attend).
12) You’ve researched and mimicked the symptoms of ADD to get prescriptions for Adderall—I mean…I’ve never done that.
Ashley Kilian
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