What happens in college stays in college. Well, not really. Unless you live under a rock, meaning you skip the crucial experience of a flatshare, never compete in a beer pong battle, and run away from jagerbombs, there are tons of hilarious, sad, and cringey stories to share with someone. The question is, who is that person you could entrust them to?
Well, no wonder college kids are sending in their confessions anonymously. Turns out there’s a whole Instagram page dedicated to it titled “Collegefessing” which is basically a safe place to post your best and worst college moments. With a whopping 6M followers eavesdropping big time, the page is somewhat of a playground for the craziness of student years.
Scroll down through our selection of the most entertaining confessions below and let us know what you miss from your college days the most!
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College is a once-in-a-lifetime experience, so no wonder you want to make the most of it. But there are tons of challenges and choices to make when you first start. From which modules to study, to which campus sport to sign up for, you will face more decisions than you ever had in your life. And what’s more, chances are they’ll be life-changing. So in order to stay focused and get the most out of this incredibly productive and interesting environment, you want to hear some useful advice. And honestly, when I was in college freshman year, I’d have benefited tons from what you’re about to read.
All teachers, grade school through university, should be tested on the subjects they will be teaching AND general knowledge ( thinking of the teacher who insisted a bat was a bird) IMHO.
First, let's start with the elephant in the room. Partying, partying and more partying is a key (although we can debate how key it actually is) part of the student package, but you can always overdo it, making your grades, motivation, and lifestyle suffer as a result.
A good tip from Katie Roiphe, book author and the director of the Cultural Reporting and Criticism Program at New York University, is to learn how to drink. She suggests drinking two drinks fewer than you want to. “You will get more joy out of life if you are alert to it, before that second-to-last drink, when the evening gets slurred. If you drink too much, you lose those lovely, wild moments,” Katie says and added that if you master the art of getting just-the-right-amount drunk, you will have more fun. This will turn out to be a super amazing skill to carry through your adulthood.
I'm the child of an alcoholic, so I don't drink. I feel this on a spiritual level.
Secondly, you have to remember that college years are excellent for making valuable connections. Trying to talk to your college professors is a great thing to do, but many undergraduates feel either intimidated or feel like they have other things to do. But Roiphe argues that your professors will appreciate your making an effort to connect and discuss things.
“This will be useful for you later, if you need a recommendation or a job, but it is also the way to get the best possible education. I know this because I am a professor,” she said and added that “So many of my most important pedagogical conversations happen in my office or outside of the classroom over coffee.”
Matt Might, a professor of Internal Medicine and Computer Science and Hugh Kaul Endowed Chair in Personalized Medicine also has quite a few wonderful tips on everything from dorm room coffee to study habits to saving cash on tuition. Might’s first advice is to realize that professors are not teachers. “Teachers in high school were trained and certified to educate. Professors spent the best years of their lives extending the boundary of human knowledge, and then won a professorship on their prowess in research. After that, someone threw them into a classroom and asked them to teach,” he argues.
If you don't want your nude photos on the internet, don't pose for them and don't allow your boyfriend to take them. People can't publish your nudes if they don't exist.
Thus, according to the professor, the key to interacting with professors is to realize that they're not teachers. “As researchers, professors have access to the cutting edge. Few students exploit that access, but it's not hard,” argues Might. His advice is to ask a professor about their research since “even the crankiest professor is going to brighten when talking about their own research. If it sounds interesting, ask if they need help in their lab.”
Just call yourself a gamer. Gamer girl is so weird. No one ever says gamer boy.
It saddens me that college hubtibg is more like job hunting. In my country, the way I did it was take an exam. You pass, you go further, you don't, you either try again next year or, if you have a backup, you to another university. It's rather simple. No one asked me anything , no interviews, nothing. Kids with highest marks got the scholarships, or if your marks were medium, you got free tuition. Low marks meant you need to pay for one year, study hard during that year to get free tuition (which is what i did). Education should be available and accessible to everyone who wishes to educate themselves. Money should not under any account be a condition.
We didn't even have to pass a specific test to get into uni. You do the subjects in high school that the course requires. Get a good mark in them and usually a certain overall score across you high school certificate. Some schools require higher school marks than others and it changes depending on how many apply for each uni. If you don't get the marks that year, you might go to TAFE to do a certificate which leads to uni after or you work for a year or more and don't generally need certain marks to be a 'mature age' student. You may do an interview then, but only in some specific courses. Plus you don't have to pay fees up front, unless you are an international student, if it is your first course of that level.
Load More Replies...they are probably a good fit in marketing ....I shudder to think of them as doctors though...
Load More Replies...If they catch that person in their lies, which happens pretty often, they will end up losing the scholarship, and having to pay back the money they already got. Oh, and they will possibly get expelled or get their degree rescinded as well. People used to be able to get away with this, but nowadays their narcissistic tendencies will eventually get them caught, since they will invariably post something incriminating on social media, or an old post will surface. Look up "Mackenzie Fierceton".
No you didn't. That's not how this works at all. Your interviews have nearly no bearing on your admission. Never mind that unless something changed significantly Upenn and Yale interviews work the other way around. They prevent you from being excluded from consideration rather than pushing you up in the rank. That just want to see if there's any saving grace in terms of personal qualities you might not have expounded upon in your essays and cookie-cutter curriculars. If you did indeed get in - it wasn't the interview. Source: Dated someone on the Admission's Committee for Yale circa 2010-2016 and we're both pretty passionate about education as a whole.
Hell of a lot better than me. I fell for a diploma mill/scam college and now I'm 17K in debt with nothing to show for it. :(
I had to write an essay about a life changing experience for college entrance, so I described the plot to Karate Kid 4 - The Next Karate Kid: was a mess, but met a kind elderly Okinawan man who took me to a zen monastery and taught me karate.
It appears this person does their homework, so maybe not
Load More Replies...Another thing to do is to sit in the front row. “A good professor is going to tune the lecture by reading the facial expressions of students. Unfortunately, it's hard to see all the way in the back, so we're really crafting the lecture to those that sit up front, whose faces we can see,” Might explains.
Just like Roiphe, professor Might urges students to go to office hours since it’s “a chance to get one-on-one mentoring from an expert. Plus, when you ask for a letter of recommendation, the professor will know you.” And this is what you ultimately wish when the time comes to look for a job or an internship.
So you found a healthy relationship and weeded out the false friends. Win win
I'm not sure how this is mastering hotels. some hotels don't offer twin rooms with queens, but single twin beds so you end up with a way smaller bed.
As bad as you feel for him, he’s not your responsibility. Alcoholism is terribly destructive for all involved.
Tell your girlfriend, raise your price to $25K, take the money and run... with your girlfriend.
1. If you wanted to lose weight, it’s great that you did and you should’ve been doing this for yourself not for a crush or to fit into a single shirt. 2. This girl owed you absolutely nothing. If your best friend knew about the crush Maybe you should be talking to them? People have different Thoughts about this but I would never go after one of my friends’ crushes. Just because you lost 25 pounds, or 100, or whatever; she is not the prize. 3. If you are proud of the weight loss, be proud and be happy and that is its own reward. you don’t get your crush as reward for doing something for yourself. 4. If you had to lose a bunch of weight to fit into a shirt, it was probably pretty obvious when she gave it to you that it didn’t fit. Kind of jerky, not very considerate. As someone who has had a grandparent give me obviously too small clothes (And obviously way too big clothes) to try to humiliate me into weight loss- That says something about her as a person.
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Counting bodies sounds like people are serial killers. This post just shows how much women are able to objectify men too.
After reading this, I am reminded of just how young some people are when they attend college. And can't help but feel that they really need to add protections against letting these kids bury themselves in debt to get an education. Their brains are not in a spot to make a financial decision that will affect the next 20 years of their lives. It just reaffirms my belief that the biggest criminals wear suits.
This should have been called low class people who spent some time at college.
No surprise humanity is doomed... now we know what happen when children are rised on social media... clap our backs
Load More Replies...Kids today are boring! If they had done a similar in my day it would be spicy!
For those baffled by the preoccupation with partners' past sex lives, google Retroactive Jealousy. It sounds kind of incel (and kind of is tbh), but is also a recognized form of OCD that many people in our prudish western culture suffer from. It's a relationship killer, but treatable.
Counting bodies sounds like people are serial killers. This post just shows how much women are able to objectify men too.
After reading this, I am reminded of just how young some people are when they attend college. And can't help but feel that they really need to add protections against letting these kids bury themselves in debt to get an education. Their brains are not in a spot to make a financial decision that will affect the next 20 years of their lives. It just reaffirms my belief that the biggest criminals wear suits.
This should have been called low class people who spent some time at college.
No surprise humanity is doomed... now we know what happen when children are rised on social media... clap our backs
Load More Replies...Kids today are boring! If they had done a similar in my day it would be spicy!
For those baffled by the preoccupation with partners' past sex lives, google Retroactive Jealousy. It sounds kind of incel (and kind of is tbh), but is also a recognized form of OCD that many people in our prudish western culture suffer from. It's a relationship killer, but treatable.