10 Abundant College Sayings and Cliche

Posted on July 14, 2010 by admin

Before you went off to college, your initial perception of college life was probably shaped by popular culture and a few phrases that you’ve heard through the years. During your first year or two on campus, you likely discovered that it wasn’t quite as you expected – in not necessarily a bad way – or you and your peers were trying to live up to the “Animal House” standard. By the time you graduate, you’ll know for certain whether or not those college sayings or cliches are true. Below are a few that have been repeated through the years on campuses across America. Do they describe your college experience?

“College is the best time of your life.”
For many people, it’s the truth. After all, like David Wood said, “College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?” and “College is like a fountain of knowledge – and the students are there to drink.” College: party, party, party, party. It’s the last time that you don’t have any real responsibility, right? But what about your degree?
“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”
If you’ve watched “Revenge of the Nerds,” you know about the social divide on some college campuses. But let’s be real, you can be studious – and have the self-motivation to learn on your own – and enjoy an active social life. Even if you aren’t smooth with the opposite sex, the availability of alcohol – as alluded to in the previous paragraph – can cause strange things to happen during a given evening.
“Graduating college in four years is like leaving a party at 10:30.”
And thus most students these days take five years to graduate. Who can blame them? Because of the aforementioned reasons, leaving college isn’t easy. The threat of entering the real world is daunting; no longer can you live off of mom and dad, stay out late whenever you please and sleep in the next day. Ask any four year graduate – most seem to wish they would’ve avoided the nine-to-five grind. There are 40 or 50 years for that.
“You can lead a boy to college, but you can’t make him think.”
It’s one thing to rehash facts on your exams and forget the information as soon as you leave the room. It’s another to fully comprehend the material, gaining new insight into different ideas as intended by your professor. Attaining a college degree doesn’t mean you automatically become smart. The true college experience entails a full intellectual commitment to your discipline. Your education is in your hands, or “College is what you make of it.” Yeah, boring stuff.
“The quality of a university is measured more by the kind of student it turns out than the kind it takes in.”
This quote kind of contradicts the above quote. So college can make a boy (or gal) think? You figure a good college graduate would be thoughtful. It also implies that colleges with high admission standards are overrated. Although that’s true in some cases, colleges with the most successful alumni tend to accumulate the smartest high school students. But then again, success is relative.
“Hard work never killed anyone, but why take a chance?”
Hard work leads to high stress. Stress causes heart disease. Heart disease causes death. You don’t need a college degree to comprehend the reasoning behind this saying. It’s easy to believe that health risks arise when you aren’t having fun. Your happiness is directly tied to how many nights per week you spend at the bar.
“A professor is one who talks in someone else’s sleep.”
There’s something about listening to the professor drone on about unimportant information that causes you to get the REM sleep you’ve been lacking while resting on your dorm room bed. Class time provides you with the opportunity to catch up on the sleep you missed while at the bar the previous night – and that morning.
“College is a refuge from hasty judgment.”
To some extent, this is true. The free exchange of ideas is encouraged at most college campuses, but it doesn’t mean that people aren’t quietly judging you while you announce to the world that America should nuke every country not located in the Bahamas. Do you think students at, say, the University of Alabama want to hear about your unbridled love of Kashi products and hemp?
“Life is my college.”
No it’s not. College is your college. Unless you’re Andrew Jackson, or one of the few lucky people blessed with a truly innovative mind, you probably need to follow the path most taken. It seems that more often than not, those who say “Life is my college” spend their days rolling doobies, munching on Doritos and watching Cartoon Network. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
“I have a degree in liberal arts. Do you want fries with that?”
If you’re a liberal arts major, you’ve undoubtedly taken grief from your friends who are pursuing engineering and accounting degrees. While you’re out partying, they’re in studying and they hate you for it. And they’re always the first to remind you that while they’ll be making a king’s ransom at their first jobs after college, you’ll be flipping burgers across the street from campus. That probably won’t be true, especially if you’re a social stud with a vast network of friends and connections. Plus there’s always grad school.

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