You poor, vulnerable soul. You’re living life in the big smoke with nothing but a notebook, a pen and a free mind. With your bank statement less than your age and aspirations of owning a washing machine when you’re older, you look to anyone (anyone?!) for a comforting shoulder to lean on.
To prove that we’re all in this #unistudentlyfe together we’ve rounded up 41 things that eeeeeeeevery uni student in Sydney knows is 100% truth.
- Uni before 9am is just not even fathomable.
- You get a little stressy if you wake up at 2pm, but like also… not really.
- You miss Uni, to catch up on Uni.
- You say ‘catch you round’ at the end of your tutorial, but you know you will never see them ever, ever again (thank god).
- Online lecture recordings will go down as the best thing that happened in the 21st century.
- You walk around Uni pretending you have a purpose and a life goal, but you actually are just looking for your lecture room, which you have never been to, even though it’s week 10. Ed Note: this is a judgement free zone guys.
- Similarly, ‘what does your lecturer look like’ is a common thought that plays on your mind.
- You just hate stu-pol (that’s student politics for those who aren’t bombarded with it every damn day).
- If tomorrow isn’t the due date, today isn’t the do date.
- Year 12 students in the library are So. Un. Welcome.
- Group work AKA letting you down one mark at a time.
- Sitting in the library, opening your laptop, closing it and leaving the library is perfectly acceptable, and definitely respectable.
- The location of your library card is almost as questionable as your library card photo.
- Look Inside is the best hyperlink on Google Books. Essay = done.
- Self-control isn’t a habitual practice, it’s an app on your MacBook Pro.
- You are an everyday hero when you study for 5 minutes straight without checking your phone.
- Copping the 2% late penalty isn’t a life choice, it’s a lifestyle.
- APA, MLA, CMS, CIA, FBI, SMH… they are all the same thing.
- You get into bed at 2pm and set your alarm for a 17-minute nap because you wouldn’t want to over sleep.
- You print at work because the 10c at Officeworks is just NOT in the budget.
- You sometimes scan broccoli as carrots at the self-service checkout (we won’t tell anyone).
- You are so proud of yourself for only buying groceries that are on special, but get takeaway anyway because you can’t be bothered to cook.
- You are very entrepreneurial about making sure as many people as possible are using your UberEATS code (it’s a win-win situation).
- You haven’t done washing in so long you contemplate just buying new underwear.
- Old people just don’t understand that smashed avocado is ALWAYS a wise investment.
- You payWave everything…like actually everything.
- There is no free parking in the WHOLE of Sydney, you know this so you don’t even try.
- That being said, you have probably singlehandedly funded the new business school with your parking fines.
- You can’t remember what you’ve eaten for dinner the past month, but you’re pretty sure you have eaten… we said pretty sure.
- Take-away is only a good idea if you can get 2 meals out of it.
- Even if you look like a 12-year-old, you might as well be 55 and having a mid-life crisis if you don’t have your Student ID on public transport.
- McDonalds in Stanmore has been under renovation FOR EVER… WHY? What could they possibly be doing?
- You work somewhere where you can get free food… #lifehack.
- Wine glasses are made of plastic and often don’t really look like wine glasses.
- You just can’t stand when adults say pre-drinking or old people who think they are cool say pre-loading. Its pres or nothing, OK Mum?
- You know that you can’t go out without pres, because the $20 cocktail just isn’t worth it
- Except at Lil’ Darlin. Now THAT is worth it.
- You spend lots of time on Saturday night wondering where to go on a Saturday night.
- R.I.P the pole at Iguana Bar. Actually R.I.P Kings Cross…. Actually R.I.P HAVING FUN.
- When you do go out, you buy $40 worth of vodka Red Bulls because it’s the only substantial way to last the night.
- UberX is the nocturnal mum you never had #loveyou.
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