The experience monopolizes every aspect of your being. By the second or third week of school, your grasp of otherwise conventional logic is tenuous at best, and the way you go about things is completely unlike the way it used to be. Take laundry, for example. Sit in a laundry room for five minutes, and you will spot the kids whose mommies have coddled them for the past two decades. Then you can cringe as girls who forgot to take their lipsticks out of their jeans create bras and panties that look like Keith Haring prints.
Food is another telltale sign distinguishing college students from the general public.
Students leave for college with no idea about the culinary nightmares that await them. They know not of the evenings ahead, which will be spent craving Gumby's Pokey Stix and Frosty shakes from Wendy's. They will hungrily and thankfully consume mass quantities of ramen noodles and curse any and all establishments that will not take checks in the amount of less than a dollar. The four basic food groups normally include vegetables, meat, grains and fruits. College students are aware of this as well, but they take an artistic license in its interpretation.