8 Most Overrated Things About College Life

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College life is perhaps the most happening time of everyone's life. So much is happening that you don't even have time to comprehend half of it. You're falling in and out of love. Friendship's are forged in blood overnight. Promises of eternity are made and often broken. College life is full of experiences good and bad. You have the independence to do what you wanna do. But everyone is hell-bound in convincing us how cool college is.

We are told how certain things are the trend and the others aren't. The herd mentality makes us quickly take note of the 'in-thing' and whatnot. Each person turns into a different, unrelatable version of their earlier self just to be accepted into the cool circle. But so much of it is ill-informed and overrated.

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Being young it's easy to get carried away by the latest fad. To get accepted you would easily emulate what others do, even if you aren't comfortable doing them. While some of the experiences are necessary for the institution called 'life', others are just plain stupid.

Read on to find out some of the most overrated things about college life.

Being Cool Or The Pursuit

An year ago you were in some school and you're suddenly expected to be cool. It is one of the overrated things about college life. But 'being cool' or 'trying to be cool' is way overrated than it actually sounds. Just be yourself, that's way cooler than all the phony appearances you can put up.

Making The Sports Team

In college life everyone has this misconception that making the sports team is a huge feat and will attract a lot of attraction from the female crowd. Though that is true to a certain extent, not all girls wanna be an arm candy for the sports superstar. Meaning, you can make the college quiz team and still get laid!

Studies

One of the worst thing about college life is that studies are way overrated than real life lessons. But the actual lesson you learn is outside of the class, with your friends, the bullies, the struggles and whatnot. The experiences and responsibilities shape you into the person that you'll be in the future.

Relationships Or The Lack Of It

Being in a relationship is a must for college students. The peer pressure is unreasonable and unhealthy. Love is something that happens when you least expect it. So preparing for it or expecting the college to provide a love interest along with the text books is stupid!

Night Outs

We're sure your elder brother gushed about how cool night-outs are. But there's nothing coolabout walking into the class with a zombie face. Night outs are one of the most overrated things about college life. We don't deny that it's fun while it lasts but the repercussions are just not worth it at times.

Getting High

Colleges are incomplete without a trippy experience. But nowhere is it written in blood that you cannot wade through college without getting yourself wet on alcohol or smoking a joint. Getting high during college life is quiet an overrated thing.

Attendance

Colleges have a compulsory attendance policy. They are threatened that they won't be allowed to attend the exams if they have less attendance. This is a usual case in college life and it is way overrated than it actually deserves any credit. Most of the times the students are allowed to attend the exams by fining them heavily or just by speaking to their parents.

College Itself

The most overrated thing about college is college itself! The whole world believes that higher education and the number of degrees that you get ascertains how successful you'll be. While college and an education does help in someways, its stupid to assume that a higher educated man is more successful. Life is all about experiences and how you react to those, no matter good or bad. So don't fret if you didn't have a college education. Some of the greatest men who ever lived were self-educated gentlemen who learnt from experiences.