Top 10 Things That Were Acceptable In College but Not As A Grown-Up

Nothing can beat those lazy, fun filled college days but eventually they have to come to an end. The grown up world can be a little bit scary and a huge change especially when we can’t get away with half the things we used to! Here’s our ten things that were acceptable in college but not as adults!

1) Stealing Road Signs and Traffic Cones

Let’s face it. We’ve all woken up with a traffic cone or a stop sign on our bedroom floor the morning after a mad one. If you were savvy enough during election time you might have even come home with a lovely portrait of Willie O’Dea. While they might have been cool house decorations in college, they do not go with the chic new couch in your grown-up house.

2) Hot Chicken Rolls

Hot chicken rolls from the campus shop are the staple in every student’s diet. Whether you were hung-over, lazy or heartbroken the hot chicken roll was there to help despite being grossly unhealthy. Everyone in a grown up office is indulging in posh tomato and basil soup and homemade healthy salads and to gorge on a chicken roll in this environment is just not the same.

3) Daytime TV

Watching Home and Away twice a day is not okay when you’re an adult. While the goings on in Summer Bay were great conversation starters in college it seems adults have more important things to talk about than Alf Stewart or the guy with the wonky teeth on Jeremy Kyle.

4) Is it Raining? Day Off!

College was a no-go if there were grey clouds in the sky. How many nine am classes were skipped “because it’s lashing outside?” Sadly, skipping work because it’s drizzling is not the office etiquette and we have to trudge through the puddles no matter what.

5) Joining the College Gym after RAG Week

We all know the pain that comes after a week of constant indulgence and what better way to help ourselves feel nicer after Charity Week than committing ourselves to a healthier student lifestyle. If we pay €60 we’ll get unlimited use of the gym and pool for three months. That’s unreal, we say. It is not unreal when we end up going a total of three times mostly just to sit in the sauna.

6) Buckfast

It may not be something we’re proud of but everyone has stomached Buckfast at some point in their college life. While a bottle of Buckie might have been a nice party present to give in college, we doubt your grown up friends will appreciate it very much. That morning after pain is best left in the past!

7) Stealing Toilet Roll From the Library

Desperate times call for desperate measures, right? Sneaking three rolls of toilet paper into your bag because you’re broke was okay in college (or maybe it wasn’t) but imagine how mortified you would be if your boss caught you doing it in the office bathroom. Toilet roll kleptomania should stay in college.

8) DMCs with Randomers

Students are the best people in the world for sharing their deepest darkest secrets with complete and total strangers. Meeting a kindred soul at the bathroom mirror in the nightclub and sharing each other’s thoughts and stories is a strangely common occurrence in college. We’ve all come home from a night out with a new friend we won’t remember in the morning. However DMCing with a stranger when you’re a grown up is just plain weird.

9) Drinking at Midday

As students, we pat each other on the back when we make it to that early class and what better way to treat ourselves than with midday pints? However, returning to work as drunk as a skunk is not cool when you’re an adult. Or at least the boss won’t see it that way.

10) Cramming a Year’s Worth of Work into One Week

Study week is one we feared in college, mostly because trying to squeeze a whole semester’s work into a matter of days is a daunting task. Despite this, we always managed to pull it off and scrape through our exams. We wonder if we could squeeze a year’s worth of Her.ie work into five days? It’s worth a try, right?