A clutter of recruitment and tailgate pictures flood our timelines around this time of year. While beer is being chugged in grassed lawns and body-glitter shimmers off of every body part, community college students sit back and scroll, giving those gorgeous sorority girls a double tap while waiting for class to start. With help from our friends from The Office, here’s some things Elgin Community College students can relate to.
1. When University kids go back to school, repping their school pride and you’re just sitting back knowing you have absolutely zero ECC spirit wear.
2. The trek of a walk from Buildings A & B to literally anywhere else.
3. The first week of school (and completely random weeks throughout the semester) entail various free foods.
4. The hallways are a trap of school clubs and services trying to recruit you so you avoid eye contact and interaction like:
5. When all the computers and good study rooms in the library are taken.
6. Your exact face when you walk into class the second week and see someone sitting in YOUR seat that you so rightfully claimed the first day.
7. Never knowing what to expect in the main lounge when you walk in (some days it’s a blow-up-bull-riding mechanism, other days there’s basketball hopes…).
8. Getting out of class early means going home.
9. Beer pong games (minus the beer) are set up and played (quite seriously) in the main lounge.
10. The Jobe Lounge is filled with at least five people you know but don’t want to see.
11. Not knowing that Building M or O even existed, and not having a clue how to get there.
12. The secret hideaways in Building H that mostly only art students know about.
13. Having Mr. Hadley as a Geography professor meant going through only two slides of a PowerPoint during a 90 minute class due to his random tangents.
14. The awkward feeling of a class that started out with 20 students dwindling down to a class of about eight after class-drop-dates are over.
15. But the totally awesome and unexpected feeling when you actually have a class with someone you can tolerate, so you stick together all semester.
16. Then rarely talk to said-tolerable person once the semester is over.
17. Forcing yourself to react in a surprised state of happiness when you run into people you were kind-of-not-really friends with in high school after trying to avoid them.
18. Walking past the Spartan Terrace every day but never going inside.
19. Having a 50-something-year-old, a 30-something-year-old parent, and a 20-something-year-old army vet all in the same class.
20. Halloween time around Elgin Community College is quite the scene.
What do you think are some signs you went to Elgin Community College? Tell us in the comments below!
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