"My parents tore into me about how I was ‘only going to community college,’ and how I ‘didn’t go to high school anyway.’"

College presents many challenges to young adults, but nobody talks about the struggles of the first few nights sleeping outside your childhood bedrooms. While we all had sleepovers and trips with friends and school, that is not the same as completely moving out of our home and regularly sleeping in a different bed, and that is not an easy experience for young people. On my first night in my dorm room, the first thing I noticed was how loud the street outside was, mainly because of all the cars…

Not everyone is great at public speaking. Most people have messed up at least once during a speech, presentation, or interview. Common mistakes include getting facts wrong, mispronouncing someone's name, or losing one's train of thought. However, you do not necessarily see a college student accidentally referring to their much older professor as “daddy” as a common mistake. This college student was mortified when she realized that she had just addressed her professor as her father when she was…

There is nothing like proving an authority figure wrong! Here, we have a college professor who has probably been tenured for so long that he thinks he can get away with just about anything. That's why this college senior felt compelled to call him out on his nonsense. The senior was in his final semester before graduating and needed to complete this specific course for his major despite knowing that the professor was notoriously unkind and unfair. After the student got sick and had to miss the…

For those of you who know, rushing sororities and fraternities is a pressure cooker of an experience. It's also not one of those challenging processes in life that brings out the best in people. As someone who never acquiesced and succumbed to the Greek Life experience but observed many peers go through it, I can say with confidence that rushing can feel as high stakes as applying to college. So why would someone willingly put themselves in that situation? Well, socialization and social hierarc…

Has anyone else had the sneaking suspicion that their professor was doing the bare minimum when it came to grading essays? Of course, if students are encouraged to try hard, shouldn't their teachers lead by example? In an ideal world, yes… but this is far from an ideal world. Here, we have a college student who was assigned short weekly papers that ultimately amounted to just 10% of the grade (each paper was 1% and was graded out of 10). After the first six weeks of the course, the student was…

"I told them I'd take that recording to the dean if they didn't make things right."

Being a college student already puts you at a difficult starting point when it comes to your financial state. There is simply so much one has to pay for in college, and physically being in school also means you can't really work to pay for everything college demands. One of the most infuriating things colleges usually take money for is parking. Apparently, the tuition is not enough to secure a place to park on campus, so colleges resort to asking even more money for parking passes or permits. T…

That kid in your group project who didn't do any of the work, instead deeming their membership to be enough contribution to qualify them for a good grade, gives off exactly the same energy that a lot of managers do… taking credit for the success of their subordinates' efforts purely by merit of their presence. In fact, a lot of them probably go on to be managers who do this, their confidence propelled by that earlier undeserved success with a lack of effort or accountability. Disappointingly, t…

"Well. If that's how you want to play it, sure."

Whether or not you're still in school, you're an adult at 21 years old, and as such, it stands to reason that you should be significantly contributing to your living situation. There may be some situations where your family might be wealthy enough that you can get away with not contributing, but for most, the reality of most family situations will be that this is not the case, and at 21 years old, you will need to be contributing. Readers here voted for the university student not to be in the w…

I'm sorry, but I'm not a psychic.

It's a commonly overlooked reality that being kind is easier than being unpleasant. Besides, the impolite individual is the only one who will eventually suffer the consequences. The story that follows is from a displeased student. The original poster (OP) describes his encounter with a lecturer who exudes entitlement. As a student, OP gained expertise in handling a variety of personalities. But nothing had prepared him for the smug professor who was unwilling to give his students the time of da…

Every kid awaits the day they finally move out of their parents' home and become completely independent adults. For some kids, that happens when they are 18, while for others it happens when they are 28, but eventually (most of the time), everyone must leave the nest, despite the challenges to do so. The challenge we speak of is for the kids and the parents alike, as both have to find the strength to let go of the other. The parents in this Reddit story have been finding it really hard to let g…

For some reason, there's a log of predatory landlords going on in and around universities. Something about the melting pot of higher-density areas, where tens of thousands of desperate students are vying for limited accommodation. The entire system further holds student tenants hostage based on the fact that they need references from previous landlords to get accommodation for the upcoming year. The problem is that, as a young student, you're very limited in your options for previous references…

Not one of us is as infallible as we'd like to think. Draw a line in the sand for where you think you've been right or wrong in disagreements in your life and then take a couple of steps backward. That perspective will probably show you that you're not really as “corect” as you might think and that line is probably closer to where you're now standing. After all, we're all determinately fastened into our own narritaves and tend to have