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“Different Types of College Students” You have just graduated from high school and have passed the standards of the academic tests you’re administered your junior year of HS before that coveted last year arrives. Your application to college has been accepted and it’s your first day of class. You walk on campus, hopeful and terrified at the same time. And just when you think you’re as far from high school as possible, you find the three typical types of college students, the ones that are not a far cry from the people you survived 9th through 12th grade with.
They are the muscle-headed jocks, loud and arrogant but almost essential to school spirit; the nerds, docile and tense with the weight of the world and their GPA’s on their shoulders; and finally, the normal people. The first groups are the jocks, the show-off type of people who take advantage of the nerds and the normal people. These jocks are known to be procrastinators when it comes to turning in their homework assignments and get low scores; they are always partying and wear big leather jackets and always get the prettiest girls on campus to date them.
They are rude and take advantage of their friends or own family. That’s the stereotype that most have come to build in their heads when it comes to these football-toting, soccer-kicking, basketball-dribbling kinds of guys. But like I said, a person like that, all that pride, although a little overbearing at times, also serves a purpose. They’re the crimson red of the school spirit that runs in all of us. They stir up the waving flags, foam fingers, and the entire audience dedicating a Friday afternoon to a college football game. They’re… indispensable to our school pride.
There’s also, of course, the typical college nerds. They are obsessed with books, studying, and learning new things. They spend most of their time on their computers, expanding their interests and updating the professor on their progress on the latest homework assignment. They are, of course, excellent in the fields of biology, physics, and mathematics (and all related fields that these encompass). And lastly, they never ever go out and party because of their tight schedules, ridiculous involvement in extracurricular and academic organizations, innate social discomfort, and general dislike for all things loud and fun.
Again, the second stereotype that most people will make and continue to hold about ‘nerds’, the fact is, when one is so involved with their campuses and communities, it is impossible to not be social and friendly. Maybe I have met the occasional stereotype with the accounting calculator and accompanying pens and highlighters in their shirt pocket, but other than the rare sighting, smart people are just as normal as the rest of us. The last group of college students is the normal people, they are usually typical college students attending their scheduled classes on time and turning in their homework on time.
They are involved in sports and having fun with their friends and families. They tend to show off their cell phones and have the hippest clothing that is in season all the time. In my sister’s alma mater, Texas A;M University, the hippest clothing refers to cowboy boots, shorts, and a hoodie in 60 degree weather. In the valley, in my jaguar hometown, even the term 60 degree weather raises a few eyebrows. So even within these shared similarities, the variety is great.
College campuses are representative of this great country of ours, a melting pot. I am most definitely not implying that all students must be classified and assigned to each one of these social classes – like I said, they are just the stereotypical. If I had to describe myself in the same manner, though, I would think of myself on the borderline of jocks and nerds. On the jock side I tend to do my homework assignments sometimes at the last minute and the nerd side, I never miss a day without using the computer and/or the internet.