Monday, March 30, 2009

the difference between college and an hbcu....

1. High school started before 8am, but now anything before noon is considered “early."
2. You have more vodka than food in your fridge.
3. Weekends start on Thursday.
4. 6am is when you go to sleep, not when you wake up.
5. The health center gives out free condoms, and u grab ten or more
6. You check Facebook more than once a day.
7. You get drunk dialed on any night of the week.
8. You wash dishes in the bathroom sink.
9. The standard of meals per day falls to two, sometimes just one.
10. Your trash is overflowing and your bank account isn’t.
11. You go to Target or WalMart more than 3 times a week.
12. Your idea of feeding the poor is buying yourself some ramen noodles.
13. You pay $100 for a book you don't read once, return it four months later, and get $7.
14. You wear flip flops in the shower
17. You skip one class to write a paper for another.
18. You have no idea where your tuition money is going... technology fees? I think not.
19. You stay up late to finish homework then sleep through the class in which it was due.
20. You craft ways to make any game into a drinking/stripping game.
21. You meet the type of people you thought only existed in movies.
22. Printers break down only when you desperately need them.
23. Anything can be cooked in a microwave.
24. Going to the grocery at midnight is completely normal.
25. You can't imagine life without your computer/cell phone/ ipod.
26. A canceled class is almost as exciting as Christmas.
27. Your professors speak English... as a second language.
28. You know what people carrying suspiciously heavy backpacks after dark are doing...
29. The elevators take forever but you'll wait 10 minutes just so you don't have to climb stairs.
30. Class size doubles on exam days.
31. You no longer find it uncool to take naps. In fact, you quite enjoy them.
32.It's illegal to drink in the dorms yet they sell an assortment of shot glasses, beer mugs, tankards, etc. in the bookstore.
33.You know at least one person who has dropped his/her cell phone into a toilet.
34.You admire people's alcohol bottle shrines.
35.You text faster than you type
36.You run out of black ink and, instead of buying a new ink cartridge, decide blue is a nice substitute... adds a little flair
37. You have a drinking buddy who can hold the most intellectual, deep conversations when drunk. Unfortunately, neither he/she nor you can remember most of it later.
38.starbucks become your new best friends..
39.You know exactly how much food will fit into a mini-fridge..
40.You've made a sandwich on or eaten food off of your $1500 laptop.
41.It is completely acceptable... and encouraged... to party on weeknights. What would life be without Wasted Wednesdays or Thirsty Thursdays?.
42.You smell the clear liquid in your water bottle before you drink it... just to make sure it's actually water..
43. You wonder why dorms stop serving breakfast at 11am. What gives?
44. You finish reading this and wonder how you can procrastinate next.

HBCU....

1.you know u go to an HBCU when ur professor is fresher than u r
2.where "diversity" is classified as having the thug, the skater boy, the rich kid, and they are all BLACK.
3.You know you go to an HBCU when there's more of a crowd to the witness the half-time performance @ a football game than there is a crowd for the game itself.
4.when the dorms are still sepatated by gender and there is sopposed to be a "curfrew
5.You know you went to an HBCU when EVERYTHING on your campus is marked up with some frat/soro's sign, rocks,grass,trees,benches
5.when there's always a fall/spring convocation and the attendance is mandatory.
6.When people come to your homecoming and they NEVER attended the college.
7.you know u go to an HBCU when its time to graduate, and the university tells u 3 days before graduation u have to meet new requirements
8.u kno u go to an HBCU when there is more competition to be the drum major than the starting QB
9.u spend more time in the registar and financial aid office than in class... *coughs* MORGAN STATE *
10.when the one token white person on campus probably is an Africana Studies major, or just more hood than some of the black people on campus.