A Friday in the Life of A College Kid

My life isn’t exactly the most interesting thing out there. I pretty much work and go to school, and that’s really the sum of my life at the moment, with little things interspersed in between. But just in case you ever wanted to experience a day in my life, particularly a Friday, this is how I roll:

How to live out a Friday like a college kid:

Step 1: Wake up at 6:15 a.m. only to decide that going to your 9:00 a.m. class isn’t truly worth it. Go back to bed.

Step 2: Wake up again at 9:00 a.m. and commit yourself to doing homework for a couple hours before your next class at 12:00 (which you’ve already debated skipping but then realized you have a quiz to take). Turn on the computer, but end up on Facebook and YouTube instead of writing a lab report. Eat breakfast to kill more time.

Step 3: Go to other class. Question your parking job, but you’re already late, and you’ll only be parked there for 50 minutes. Acknowledge the security guy who’s giving out parking tickets. He smiles back at you.

Step 4: Show up to class late. Take your quiz.

Step 5: Return to car to find no ticket on your windshield, so spirits lift; walk around to driver side door and find this wedged in door:



Thank the City of Denver for their $25 parking violation because only the last inch of your car was past the "No Parking Anytime” sign, but the rest of your car was fine. Don't ever let a smiling security guard assure you.

Step 6: Deposit accumulated tips from your serving job over the past week into the bank. Answer the teller’s knowing glances and questions with “I’m a waitress, I’m not a stripper” and apologize for all the ones.

Step 7: Go to Party City with friend. Try on ridiculous costumes and laugh at crazy ones.

Step 8: Hit up the mall. Try on random dresses because you can and feel glamorous while doing it:





Step 9: Make impulse purchases:



Shotglasses with capes and caramel apples. In case you were wondering what college kids spend money on, I’ll give you a hint: it’s not tuition.

Step 10: Avoid working. You’re on call tonight, and two people have already asked to have you cover their shifts, but you narrowly dodge them. Call in 20 minutes late and breathe a sigh of relief when they say they don’t need you to come in.

Step 11: Hit up thrift stores with another friend searching for one particular item. This includes, but is not limited to: Goodwill, Arc, Goodwill Outlet, Savers. OR ALL OF THE ABOVE.

Step 12: Laugh about the hilarious things you can find:







Lifesize Sheldon cut out! BAZINGA!



Step 13: Be a racecar. Avoid further parking violations.

Step 14: Be sorely disappointed at the horrible unorganization of the Goodwill outlet store. Yeah, it looks huge on the outside, and you see lots of people walking out with carts full of stuff. But once you get inside, you realize that it’s one giant room with bins of random clothes and toys and junk all thrown in together with absolutely no rhyme or reason. If Goodwill is where people’s unwanted things go to die, then the Goodwill Outlet is where those dead things go to die.

Step 15: Go get dinner at a Mexican restaurant. Slowly realize that it’s karaoke night at the bar…trust me, your ears will realize it before you do.

Step 16: Join in the chicken dance.

Step 17: Head home and debate going out to a haunted house. Write a blog entry.

So yeah. That’s pretty much the life of a college kid on a Friday. Ya know, just in case you were wondering.