Things I Wish I Knew Before Coming to Wheaton

  • It is imperative to have a car.

  • It is way better to have a laptop than it is to have a desktop.

  • How bad college food is after months of similar selection.

  • There's no need to bring enough Ramen noodles to feed an army—nine times out of ten you'll end up bringing a full case of it back home at the end of the year.

  • The Freshman 15 is not a lie. Keep going to the gym from the start or else you will wake up one day, months after eating hundreds of dollars of Loft food, and realize that it has become the Freshman 30.