Running Low
You are running low on this if you are standing in front of a laundry machine full of wet clothes and only a dollar bill in your pocket.
What are Quarters?
The central hub where you find the bookstore, food court, and probably a very expensive Starbucks.
What is the Student Union?
Check this tag on a shirt before using the dryer.
What is the Care Label/Tag?
This call home happens when you realize you actually miss the dog barking at 6:00 AM.
What is Homesickness?
When you realize you can only visit a professor during these specific hours to ask for a grade bump or extra help.
What are Office Hours?
You are running low on this if you are wearing a 7th-grade camp shirt on a random Wednesday.
What is Clean Laundry?
The place you’ll visit when you have a 102°F fever and need a "doctor’s note" for your professor.
What is the Health Center?
A monthly plan to keep you from going broke.
What is a Budget?
This call home happens when you are at the Pharmacy and can't remember which "color" of Gatorade and medicine your mom gives you?
What is Being Sick?
When the syllabus states "Attendance is not mandatory," and you have to find this willpower to actually show up anyway.
What is Self-Discipline?
You are running low on this if you are down to the cardboard tube because your roommate is a "borrower."
What is Toilet Paper?
This building houses thousands of books, but you're really just there for the quiet cubicles and the printer.
What is the Library?
The tool used to fix a dorm toilet that won't flush.
What is a Plunger?
This call home happens when you need extra money and have no idea if you even have a Social Security Number.
What is Filling Out a Job Application?
When you realize your entire grade is based on only two things: a Midterm and a Final.
What is College Grading?
You are running low on these if you are eating cereal for dinner because your meal card was declined.
What are Flex Dollars (or Swipes)?
The office you visit to argue about your scholarship or ask why you were charged a $50 "utility fee."
What is Bursar/Financial Aid?
The 5 digit number that will ensure your Amazon packages or mail will get to you.
What is a ZIP code?
This call home happens when you find a Yellow Slip on your car and need to ask who "The City Treasurer" is and why they want $65.
What is a Parking Ticket?
When you realize your $200 Textbook was written by the professor teaching the class, and it’s mandatory.
What is the High Cost of Books/Capitalism/Scam?
You are running low on this if you have a paper due at 11:59 and your computer charger is in your car three parking lots away.
What is Battery Life?
Where you go to use the gym once in September and then never again.
What is the Rec. Center?
This grown-up task requires you to call and schedule your own dentist or doctor visit.
What is Making an Appointment?
This call home usually happens after a week of eating questionable dining hall pizza and/or ramen.
What is Home-Cooking Withdrawal?
When you realize there is a last day to drop a class without failing, and if you miss it, that F is on your transcript forever.
What is the Add/Drop Deadline?