Initiations, pranks, and social clubs mix with assignments, tests, and the beginnings of a career search to make the fascinating cocktail that is student life. Whether the memories are fond, horrifying, or repressed, campus stories are popular for a reason. And like anything popular, the internet is awash with student memes dedicated to them.
The “College Confessions” Instagram account posts more than just gossip; it features funny and relatable memes about university life that one doesn't have to be a student to enjoy. We also contacted David Kozak, co-founder of College Media LLC, to ask a few questions. So be sure to upvote your favorite student life memes and comment on your own tales from campus life.
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Yuri Gagarin
I take pride in the fact I can't name the Kardashians, however I am aware of their existence which is not good
Ikr, I ignore their existence but even still I'm able to name 5 freaking Kardashians
Load More Replies...Let's forget about this stupid family and let's honor Yuri. He was such a humble and nice human being and died way too early. "Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!"
Don't forget he also held the Soviet Government to account of the death of his friend Vladamir Komorov.
Load More Replies...it’s now my goal in life to make it into a presentation slide with the title #insane pointing at me
i know how, just buy a tank and go to every fast food place in california, surely your gonna be on the news everywhere and in history classes for years
Load More Replies...Everything I've learned about the Kardashians has been against my will.
Prof Is One Of The Boys
I wish my teachers had done this. Science classes on Halloween would be something else.
Pro Study Tips!
Bored Panda contacted the co-founder of "College Confessions" to ask a few questions about the page and the student memes themselves. Despite being aimed particularly at campus life, a decent segment of the page's followers were not actually in any form of higher education. "About 60-70% of students are in college, and the rest are either finished or about to enroll," he said, based on their user statistics. The page's main focus is posting anonymous confessions alongside memes for students, so we were curious if they had any rules for what people can submit. The answer was simple, "no rules at all."
Any discussion of campus life with a student or ex-student will inevitably stumble into discussions of what their experience was like as a freshman versus, say, a junior. The American high school experience also uses these terms. Despite how common they are, many people don’t even stop to think about why they exist. So, like many elements of “American” culture, the origin is actually British.
Hold Up... He Might Be Onto Something
Drinking doesn't solve any problem except dehydration and alcohol can't solve that either.
No wonder our planet is so depressing. NO! Help as many people as you possibly can. BE KIND!!!!!
Load More Replies...I don't understand 3 ... Don't help a man or he'll keep coming back to bother you whenever he's in trouble again?
Some people never get their lives sorted out, so need regular help. But not helping just makes the world a very depressing place, and makes us a selfish species.
Load More Replies...Whenever someone asks me why I smoke I tell them 'Murder's still illegal and I'm too pretty for prison.' It's a joke, obviously, but there are days where stress levels make me stabby so let me use my stress coping mechanism bad or otherwise.
Did he quit? That would be an awesome resignation letter lol
Wholesome
Sure so! Some things even are bearable thanks to cats at all anyway...
Load More Replies...You're on another level, you're the cat of the year
Load More Replies...There’s So Many Other Places Smh
At parking at a University should be included with the rediculas tuition they charge
Load More Replies...Parking was so easy and cheap when I was at university. Nobody could afford a car and we all walked or went on the bus!
And freshman aren’t even allowed cars at the places I’m thinking of going to.
Load More Replies...I would love if my local hospital had free parking. But I used to park across from the hospital at one of many medical offices. When parking at the hospital was free, visitors to other businesses abused it. And for the same reason, eventually the medical offices initiated pay parking too, because visitors to the hospital would fill our parking lot and leave no room for our own patients. It can be a vicious circle.
I used to cheat by switching between parking in delivery bays out the back of the schools when I found out what days and hours they came and didn’t and then move the car around the block to public parking around the parking metres guys hours 😂 hectic but I made it without a ticket, inconveniencing the delivery people or paying for parking for a whole year. Each class I usually had to move the car or during a class
Hospital care is free where I live, costing thousands of dollars per day I'm sure. The outrage over a $20 parking fee mystifies me.
(public) Hospital care is free where I live, but the parking is $20 PER HOUR!
Load More Replies...Seriously. I can park freely when I want to go to the grocery store, but as soon as I want a further education or a trip to the hospital that could be life or death, I have to pay ridiculous prices. Personally that's why I opt out of further education and to solve the hospital problems, my pronouns are healthy/alive. This is a joke obviously, if your mad you need to loosen up.
To start, the freshmen are a needlessly gendered denominator. This one is pretty straightforward, as the term comes literally from older students calling newer ones fresh, i.e. simply new. Since the 17th-century education system was generally male-dominated, at the time, it made sense to follow “fresh” with men, though they could have referred to them as boys if they really wanted to drive home the idea of new, novice students.
The sophomore is an immediate level up, as it utilizes Greek words to add some weight to the concept, something a sophomore might think is cool and relevant. However, the meaning is actually quite clever, combining the concepts of intelligence (Sophos, or “wise”) and foolishness (moros,) which perfectly encapsulates most sophomores. They are smart enough to know a handful of things and have survived year one. But they still lack any true wisdom despite their own thoughts on the matter. And we have tons of relatable memes for students to prove it.
Let’s Hear Them
I got in trouble for eating my lollipop before my sandwich in 3rd grade... Why Ms. White? WHY?
Listen why do people get so pressed that im ugly? like how is my uglyness going to bring up your ugly personality?? give it up buddy just give it up
Bet you are t ugly at all. Just a wrong impression about yourself.
Load More Replies...The dumbest thing I got into trouble for in class was READING A BOOK. It was a romance, and the school was Catholic, which meant the nun who was principal didn't know it was romance and so, sent me back to class unpunished but --! See the entire scenario of ironies here?
This. This exact thing happened to me. My Abnormal Psych teacher called me loudly into the hall after she passed back our graded finals essays. She proceeded to sternly, aggressively, and loudly tell me how she was going to get me thrown out of college and pretty much blacklisted (?) from future academia. Long story short, I proved it was my work that I posted online for peer review (this was in 2005 so there wasn’t much of an issue as today), aced the final— like scored 100 percent, but still no apology. I love/hate school.
I forgot my gmail logged on school's PC and someone wrote an email with a lot of curses. I didn't even know half those curses back then, never did anything wrong, never got called to the principal's office, but even still they never believed I didn't write it
I always found it irritating that i had to provide a citation whenever i quoted myself in a paper.
So I go to a Christian school and we have this thing called chapel every Thursday, well I had a crush on this guy and we were talking but this teacher tells him to move down a few rose on the bleachers so we wouldn’t talk, my friend brought her water bottle. I grabbed a piece of ice and threw it at that boy, little did I know it went right past him and hit the principle. Still to this day my family laughs about my “INFRACTION FOR THROWING ICE IN CHAPEL” I cant—💀💀
My buddy was selling his original artwork online and was contacted by the wife of a deceased artist accusing him of forgery. He sent close-up shots and a short video showing that the two works not only were different, but also their techniques were completely different. She did apologize.
Only The Smart Ones Get It
There was one my dad wore like this, it said: "There are 10 types of people in this world: 1.Those who can read binary. 2. Those who can't."
2 tyoes of people. Those who divide people into 2 types and those who don't.
I love this! haha nothing is ever known with certainty but I mean for those who think logically you can project a pretty good estimated guess what may happen next...... so he didn't need to write " Those who can't" Lol you already knew it. and for those who didn't know it - well haha that's the point and very sad. I want this shirt.
Hang on I think I know this guy he might be my Chem teacher lmao
There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary notation, & those who do not.
Well Played
But what happens when you have 20 of them? teacher: Why are there so many? Student: Ummmm. IDK! It was like this when I got here? *Runs out of room very quickly*
Toothpaste takes care of nail holes, unless you're a twitterpated twat who used roofing nails to hang things, or are flat out dipshitted enough to use blue toothpaste. Use WHITE TOOTHPASTE, twitwit.
I don’t remember if I was doing a split, or if I was laughing too hard and accidentally kicked the wall backwards, but our old apartment had a whole like this. I just shifted the blame to the toddler.
Dorms are furnished dorms are furnished so you could rearrange the furniture to cover holesDorms are furnished so you could rearrange the furniture to cover holes
Load More Replies...An aspiring engineer, no doubt. Maybe not a good engineer, but an engineer nevertheless.
The last two terms used to be longer, junior sophister and senior sophister (meaning expert), though now we mostly just keep the first part of the whole phrase. These terms do appear somewhat ridiculous when we think about applying them to high schoolers, who are unlikely to be wise at any point in their education. If that offends you, you are probably still in high school and came to look at these student memes to learn what to expect later on. I would recommend waiting a year or two and coming back to see if you feel the same way.
Honestly A Vibe
Wait until you grow up and realize that that was the only time you could do it
Uhmm, I could totally see the seniors the the retirement home where I work do this....
Load More Replies...At my college a couple of the floor residents were booted from their positions because during one of the breaks they decided to set up a slip-and-slide on one of the floors and got caught.
We played Monopoly in our elevator dorm in 1971, which had fifteen floors.
Frat guys broke the lights in our elevators. One day, the door opened and there were kids holding a seance. Never mind, I'll get the next dark elevator.
Amazing! I love this freedom. If I had an elevator (or lift - UK here) I'd do this today. Top of the stairs doesn't cut it.
Become cabin crew. I definitely pulled of stunts like that when I was flying but that was in the mid-70s.
Well Done
The government wanted to fake the moon landing, but they hired Kubrick to film it and he insisted on doing it on location.
Best answer I've ever heard. You win the internet today Rachel
Load More Replies...How DO you draw a wrong triangle? Draw a circle or what? I am not familiar with the term, if it is something special… now I need to google it. Damn Edit: ok I know it now and am dumbfounded about the English language.
What's the answer? I googled it but am even more confused now!
Load More Replies...Technically, the moon landing WAS staged by the government... in real-time and 1:1 scale.
I mean... he's right. It was staged. Do you think those astronauts went there just happened upon a giant-a*s rocket that carried them to the only Earth's natural satelite? XD
What Kinda School
What’s the name of this place? I’ll try and see if they’re accepting new admissions
I love this. Wonder the name of the place and if it accepts admissions? Its for a friend ;)
I remember having a school assembly and my teachers filled up maybe hundreds of water balloons and splashed everyone in the school.
Of course, actual student life isn’t just academics unless the student prefers it to be that way. College and University are times of active social encounters, growing up and often causing mayhem. However, student pranks that are often turned into memes about university life later on aren’t just some modern outpouring of youth that has lost all its morals; rather, they have existed as long as Universities have been around, going back to the Middle Ages.
Adapt. Improvise. Overcome
Love it. Hated being in a lecture hall and trying to figure out where the tiny red laser dot was; this is so much easier to follow
Never cared how they got their points across as long as they were stimulating enough to get my interest.
It’s either an x-foot-long pole or a <1cm circle. It’s not stupid if it works.
apparently he hasn't been presented with enough evidence to convince him of their existence... but he might be a laser pointer agnostic, so there's still hope for his eternally pointy soul :)
Load More Replies...There are things In an organic chem lab that affect fine motor control over time. Its possible that the teacher struggles with controlling a laser pointer so a larger object that allows gross muscle movements allows him to do the same function.
Omg we had one prof who did the same! He'd come to class with a 2m long pole and he used an old school projector instead of one hooked up to a computer and lo and behold, he taught chemistry! But it was inorganic chemistry, not organic chemistry as depicted here
Going To Be Memorizing Them All
thou frothy fat-kidneyed coxcomb :D EDIT: insults that the BP algorithm can't censor :)
Saving this to my photos for when I need something insulting to tell the trolls
thou got downvoted by some gorbellied doghearted flax wench. Now, taketh t'is upvote
Load More Replies...Thou infectious fly-bitten barnacle, thou flea, thou errant clay-brained, loon-faced clotpole! May thee rot in the gorbellied primordial space that is thy haggarded, mangled inferno!
*Speaking to my footwarmer currently snuggling on my feet: Thou fawning common-kissing foot-licker 😽
Yummy, does he have a brother? Asking for a friend.
Load More Replies...This is nothing compared to Pope Francis' insults of traditional Catholics. "Semi-pellagian," "thought-pagans." Someone compiled a list of hundreds.
Yes, some become too, too involved in the history and ceremonies of the Catholic Church and need reminding of the true teachings of the Christ whose footsteps they profess to follow. CHINOs, CHristians In Name Only?
Load More Replies...Do you wish you could speak Shakespearean? Here's a gift from me to you. It's an online English to Shakespearean translator. Enjoy it, and has't thou a most wondrous day! https://lingojam.com/EnglishtoShakespearean
A- For Not Deleting The Part At The Top
When you may be too sexy for your shirt, but you're too stupid for oxygen.
I'm not sure if the student has reached epic levels of stupid or legendary levels of lazy. Maybe both?
Load More Replies...Achievement unlocked: fail a university course in one paragraph or less.
I’m glad they have ChatGPT do this, very good against cheating, however if they don’t provide a reason why they need an essay I wonder if people can still cheat
Yeah i've used this before myself but I haven't cheated. It's very useful to get ideas tho.
Load More Replies...Like all things Medieval, the jokes and japes were generally more cruel and often ended in more violence. The St Scholastica’s Day Massacre occurred in 1355 in Oxford, where disgruntlement at watered-down wine spilt over into a pitched battle between students, a tavern keeper, and other guests. The final death toll (when have you last heard that in reference to University misbehavior) stood between forty and sixty-three.
W Bonus Question
haha faceblindness go brrrrr (just to be clear this is a joke, I also have this)
Load More Replies..."It's about *half* time of the *whole* *quarter*" This bothers me more than it should.
Just when you thought the midterm couldn't get any tougher, you have to solve a CAPTCHA.
The Kitkat Bandit
"did not take anything other than the Kit-Kat", ah hah, that's exactly what someone who took something other than the Kit-Kat would say... wait.. that's a bad thing nvm lol
Gave himself several justifications: 1. Love KitKat 2. Hungry 3. Your door was unlocked. 4. You left it in the cupholder 5. Saw it. 6. Did not take anything other than KitKat. F*****g future CEO there...
This is a stupid thing for so many of the people in this thread to get into a twist over. Give me a break.
Walking back to our flats a bit tipsy from the club, when my buddy spies some kid snack like a Hostess Snoball, opens the car door, grabs it, and continues along like it was a common thing to do.
I was really pissed until I realized they were talking about a candy bar and not an actual kitty cat.
Ok, maybe he was just hungry? Because he wrote a note and said that he was sorry. Not everyone is well fed.
Solid Advice
I’d add: “Choose a major based on the average start time of the earliest classes. Always wake in double digit hours & go to bed in the single digits.” None of that 8 or 9 AM BS!
So to maximize your party time in a day (24hrs, ie 1440 minutes), party for 479 minutes, study for 480 minutes and sleep for 481 minutes.
8hrs 1 min sleep, 8hrs study and 7hrs 59mins party
Load More Replies...If fraternity and sorority are now the main dividers of groups in campus life, Medieval universities had their own divisions, mainly based on fraternal associations of scholars drawn from similar regions. As usual, these groups might battle each other, normally leaving injured scholars in the streets. A few times, blood would be spilt, which would lead to another cycle of violence as the losing party would no doubt seek revenge.
Bro Tweakin’
No idea so it's just a guess, but it can be a design project, maybe he's cutting the pic
Is no one gonna mention Adderall & Ritalin??? It’s finals week and he’s stuck on an image of a veggie. He’s def “tweaking” on one or the other.
I always said that finals were a test of endurance, and not of knowledge.
And It Was -6
I remember trying to take the maths section of the SATs. The answers I came up with were never even remotely close to the multiple choice options.
Professor
*cancelling therapist appointment* You're telling me this NOW!??!!???
Fortunately, modern college life will unlikely require a pitched street battle just to protect oneself. In some cases, students might have to organize themselves to protect their rights or to promote other causes. Students have long been politically active, either demanding justice in the case of racial discrimination or promoting student loan debt forgiveness in the United States. International Students' Day marks the suppression of anti-Nazi students in occupied Czechoslovakia in 1939, where nice students and professors were executed. If you want to see more student memes and tales, click here, here, and here.
Crying Is Allowed?? Excuse Me
There there have a fuzzy blanket a cat a warm cup tea some relaxing music and a good book
Load More Replies...Who else ever got that test that was: This is a 100 question test. You have 90 minutes to complete it. You MUST follow all instructions exactly to pass. You MUST first ONLY read each question. After reading every question, go back and answer them.... Anyway, the instructions take a full 10 minutes to read, so you are already stressed for time. IF you actually followed instructions (spoiler alert, the whole point of the test), instead of skipping ahead and answer the questions as you go, number 100 was answer only this question: Write your name at the top of page 1. You obviously only pass if the only thing you wrote on the test was your name. 🤣
YOU CAN'T STOP ME!!! *runs away crying loudly whilst using exam paper as a tissue*
Do not wipe tears on exam paper. Just let them fall naturally on your answers (in pen) so that there is no way anyone can read the answers. Make sure some engineering terms are kinda legible.
Why is a test at Vietnam National University Hanoi written in English?
Because many of these engineers get further training in the US, UK or Australia.
Load More Replies...I remember a final with three questions and you had to answer two of them. And then rejecting the first question......
He’s Write About This One
Advanced placement. It's college level courses you take in highschool.
Load More Replies...To be fair, "auto correct" makes us all look like high school drop-outs on a regular basis.
Combine that with character limits, forcing us to screw grammar and sentence structure, and we look like elementary kids.
Load More Replies...It depends on the class? If Grammar is not essential to that course, fine. If Grammar is -- then neither of them are ready: *Whether, *You're and *"Don't take it; you're not ready."
Right? The Y is even capitalized, even though it's preceded by a comma, not a period. 🙄
Load More Replies...If your high school offers dual enrollment, do take it over AP. There are many colleges these days who accept dual enrollment credits, and dual enrollment often means getting an almost guaranteed credit out of a class with far less trouble than AP. For the most part, college professors are way more qualified at teaching than the high school AP teacher, so its a better experience.
i took 4 AP classes in Virginia, then my family moved to Georgia for my senior year. Guess which classes didn't count for college credit in GA? yup. we should really have some kind of, idk... FEDERAL EDUCATION program so students aren't getting effed over because their parent(s) move.
I've always wondered about AP. I did not sign up for any AP classes in highschool yet I got put into AP literature when I was a sophomore...How does that even happen??
Speaking of AP, I just took the AP Biology exam, which was a pain in my a*s.
Finals Season
Ams Aren’t For Everybody…
My first semester in college was brutal. I had a full class schedule that included freshman composition, life science majors' biology, music theory, and five performing groups - concert band, show choir, jazz band, women's choir, and chamber orchestra. No, wait … I also had pep band. It was not the unusual to find me wearing pajamas to class, especially on days after games.
1 out of 100 college kids sleep in class ... I made that up ... statistics
95% of statistics you see on the internet are made up😉🤔🤣
Load More Replies...Not cool! This will just distract other students who wanted to understand this mf subject... :D
Yea. Most of my classes did that or similar to force attendance. Unfortunately, one of those professors was so terrible that attending the class actually made it harder to pass the class because the professor was so bad at teaching. He assigned about 3+ hours of work due every other day. After the homework, I knew how to do everything, after attending class, I no longer knew how to do anything I learned the night before. Highest exam grade anyone got in his class was a 53. He has to curve every exam for anyone to pass. I was only about 1-2% from an A, and I had no idea how to do any of the stuff we supposedly learned in the class, by the time the semester was over.
Bright-eyed and bushy tailed for my AM classes, but this was how I felt in afternoon classes.
Thinking Outside The Box?
Chocolate milk is fine for drinking, not so great for cereal (depending on what cereal of course), I might use it with coffee but wouldn't with tea, and I definitely would not cook or bake with chocolate milk.
Load More Replies...That was my thought, too... washing a milk jug in a typical dorm room sink would be challenging, to say the least.
Load More Replies...I grew up having whole farm-fresh milk set in front of me every day at dinner. To be clear: I DESPISE the taste of milk, period. After years of tears, I finally said, "I'll eat yogurt, I'll eat cheese, I'll eat pudding, but please do not put milk in front of me, because I'm NOT drinking it anymore!" To this day, the only way I can stand to drink milk is if it's a minimum of 1/4 chocolate and 3/4 milk. I do keep 1% in the fridge, because I cook with it.
How? It's already from the cafeteria. No different than getting a ton of refills really.
Load More Replies...And she's putting 2% in a whole-milk jug - who's she trying to fool?
Smh My Head
i guess they'll just have to ... ehem... bear with it :| i'll see myself out, thanks
Nobody else notice the the title means “shaking my head my head”?
Situation was so bad, they had to shake their head while shaking their head.
Load More Replies...These people are in college?! Neither one can write a damn sentence, ffs.
How long do you think before this pops up on a post about why women live longer lol
College Is A Scam
I might have this wrong but I think the question is about the correlation of the Q angle with isokinetic knee strength and muscle usage or activity
And you are privy to this knowledge, are you?
Load More Replies...Still mad about this one I got wrong 😒 Screenshot...74-png.jpg
RIGHT?!?! My college switched to online quizzes halfway through my time there and I curse Pearson so much for their broken tests that caused so many problems. The other problem was the teachers who just shrugged and said that you should have imputed it correctly, WHEN IT'S THE SAME DAMNN ANSWER!
Load More Replies...Honestly, though, you're lucky you didn't get the whole thing wrong. Unacceptable.
10¢ A Pop
It's possible for the items to be cleaned and recycled, so it's worth considering doing so. (Sorry I know it sounds nerdy)
We have a recycling program here that pays 10c per bottle or can. So yeah, it's definitely a way to earn easy money if they come to you.
Load More Replies...No one would do this here as you get your Pfand (a cash deposit) back, when you recycle them.
Untouched?
If this is the DMZ between north and south korea than this is some crazy pure water. I read that there is wildlife in there that can no longer be found on either side of it.
So maybe we need more DMZs? For ecological health?
Load More Replies...The Cure To Everything
This would actually taste pretty good if you got rid of the peppermint.
I think using the entire group of essential oils would work as good.
Why is there not too much colour? Is it cold water potion???? 😱
Too Early For This
I used to party on Fridays and then go to my shared office after and surround myself with boxes in order to sleep under my desk so the cleaning staff wouldn't see me. PS - I don't snore.
Life Lately
I liked Tuesdays and Thursdays, only two classes (even though they were longer) and I got to sleep in a little longer
I used to do all my classes t/r and have 5 days off!
Load More Replies...Obviously is was the apex of their year. A shining pinnacle. The apogee. The absolute zenith. ;-)
Load More Replies...For me they symbolized half-week although technically Thursday is the half-week day
Load More Replies...What’s His Name??
How Do You Even ¿
Let's consider it. No miss types because the mouse pad has gently touched skin. I can see the benefits.
I fear I would get a lot of miss types because my arms would touch all the keys - lol
Load More Replies...Probably the best way to guarantee nobody would want to steal it
I hate a trackpad below the keyboard as well, this might even work better for me...
Same, my track pad is turned off because i push buttons on it while typing and I use a USB mouse. Like this I wouldn't even have to turn it off!
Load More Replies...I’d love that, actually, as I use a wireless mouse, and am annoyed to have the keyboard so far away! 👍🏽
And here I thought company I work for had some bad design ideas. XD
I think they designed this for the sole purpose of making your life even harder and somehow preparing you for the real world....... you can either hover your wrists above the keyboard (painful), invest in a bluetooth mouse for a laptop that you don't own ( wasteful) - by you're own computer ( doubtful) invent something interesting to help you solve this problem ( resourceful) ;)
I disconnected my mouse pad and use a regular mouse. Otherwise it keeps going off (is in the normal position).
BP's arbitrary truncation of threads is my #1 peeve with this site. I find this way more annoying than the constant reuse of pictures and memes.
Load More Replies...You think you're still young, then you see pictures of college students and realize you are no longer young.
BP's arbitrary truncation of threads is my #1 peeve with this site. I find this way more annoying than the constant reuse of pictures and memes.
Load More Replies...You think you're still young, then you see pictures of college students and realize you are no longer young.
