5 People You'll Meet During Your College Career

By Francine Fluetsch on March 5, 2015

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Dear incoming freshman,

As the acceptance letters are coming in and you’re getting pumped for college, you may start to wonder what it’s going to be like.

And while everyone’s experience is going to be somewhat different, I can introduce you to five people that dwell on every college campus. Always nice to have a heads up, right?

The overly obsessed sorority girl:

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Greek life can be a great way to get out there, make some friends, help the community, get into parties, etc, but there are the people who take it a tad too far.

The overly obsessed sorority girl will be flashing her chapter’s finger sign thing everywhere, will have a million pictures with her “big” on Instagram (even though they just met five minutes ago) and has mastered the sorority squat to a T (how they pose for pictures).

The overly obsessed sorority girl will profusely seek out her sisters on campus, calling and waving and screaming to say hello. She’s definitely an enthusiastic one.

She will somehow always be able to tie her sorority into the conversation: “Oo that new pizza place? Omg one of my sisters works there!” She’s usually sweet and a social butterfly, though she can get on people’s nerves without meaning to.

She’s just uber excited about her sorority, after all.

The annoyingly perfect person:

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There are some people who are going to drive you exceptionally crazy with envy in college. While you are struggling to keep your grades up with 15 units, the annoyingly perfect person is doing 20 units, has a job, and volunteers on the weekends. Talk about making you look bad.

Worst of all, they tend to hardly complain about their massive workloads, and they are usually nice people on top of all that, so even though you want to hate them, you can’t bring yourself to do it. They make college look easy, and are the people you should have as your idols.

The good thing is, you won’t find too many of them on campus—there are some people who try to be them but crack under the pressure, so don’t beat yourself up for not having as much on your plate as them. Just know that they exist and are people you should obviously be worshiping.

The one who parties a little too hard:

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It’s no secret that most people in college party. The usual protocol is to start on Thursday (thirsty Thursday), party Friday and possibly Saturday, rest up Sunday, and then cool it until Thursday rolls around again.

Some people might only go once on the weekend depending on their workload. But there are the people who are always down to party 24/7. Just the word “party” can set them in a frenzy.

Once Sunday rolls around and their friends are trying to get some homework in, they still have the need to party in their system, and will try to find someone, anyone, to join them. Whether it’s taking shots while watching a show to a spontaneous game of beer pong, the person who parties too hard will party every day.

The annoying thing about this person is they usually end up doing well in their classes. While you are getting some sleep to cure your hangover before school, the partier is going at it again, and will probably beat you on your midterm.

This is definitely not true for all the crazy partiers, but the ones that still do well will drive you crazy.

The study-oholic:

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The study-oholic is never going to take their nose out of their textbook, ever. They don’t do procrastination–that word probably doesn’t even exist in their vocabulary. Once they get an assignment, they get it done that day, and they plan out the rest of their assignments accordingly. They are organized, neat, and very smart, and they somehow don’t burn out.

The study-oholic is a friend you want to have during finals, because their flash card methods and sticky note collages can be great inspiration. The study-oholic will annoy you because you can hardly sit still for one assignment before you get bored out of your mind and play with your phone, but the study-oholic can just keep going and going and going.

They are the reason that the midterm isn’t getting curved as well as it should, since they got a 95 on the test while the class average was a 60.

The gym rat:

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After a long day of classes, normal people go home and take a nap or binge watch some Netflix, but not the gym rat. The gym rat is somehow immune to these lazy tendencies, and you can find them at the gym more than you’ll find them anywhere else.

The gym rat will be leaving the gym in the morning when your butt finally gets out of bed, and you’ll gawk at the gym rats running on the treadmills as you run to class since you’re late (that totally counts as your exercise for the day, uh, week, totally counts for the week).

The gym rat eats really well too, so don’t sit next to them in the dining hall or you’ll regret everything on your plate. They can be a great training buddy if you want to get into working out, just know that they are pretty intense.

There you have it, the five people you will definitely meet in college. Have a person to add? Leave a comment!

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