50 Things to Make You Smile

This is a guest post from our Student Ambassador at University of Iowa, Evan Okrzesik.

College life causes all kinds of anxiety. The hectic lifestyle leaves you scrambling to finish essays that you have no interest in, study for midterms given by lifeless professors, and scrounge up money you don’t have for rent. This results in a variety of weird mood swings, sleep deprivation, and redundant stress. For some, the hardest part is balancing this gotta-get-it-done mentality with the gotta-go-out-tonight ambition. It’s not easy and to make matters worse the real world doesn’t get any easier.

So take a deep breath, relax and laugh about 50 things you probably take for granted:

1. Happy Hour
2. Pizza
3. YouTube
4. Chocolate chip cookies
5. HBO
6. Group texts
7. Sunshine
8. Full battery
9. Dollar Menus
10. Red Wine
11. White Wine
12. Yoga pants
13. Leonardo DiCaprio
14. You graduated from High School
15. You’re actually in college
16. A college diploma (hopefully)
17. The closest parking spot
18. Tailgating
19. Beyoncé
20. Titanic
21. Care packages
22. Snow days
23. Batman
24. Coffee
25. Nintendo 64
26. Comfy socks
27. French Fries
28. The concentration of guys on your campus
29. The concentration of girls on your campus
30. Classes without attendance
31. Packable snow
32. Mila Kunis
33. Christmas
34. Puppies
35. Make up tests
36. Will Ferrell
37. Cancelled classes
38. The Beatles
39. You’re American
40. Fridays
41. Saturdays
42. Grade curves
43. Starbucks
44. Family
45. Candles
46. Ice Cream
47. Clean sheets
48. Gagnam Style
49. Ryan Gosling
50. Hot Chocolate