What you’re studying in college can say a lot about what kind of a friend you are…
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This is a good friend to have on a night out when you’ve had one too many drinks and become completely legless. They’ll spring in to action and patch you up like a stand-in-mammy. However, if your nursing student friend is on placement and getting up at 6am Monday to Friday they will be unavailable to party in any way, shape or form until the weekend. For a lot of other students this is designated recovery time from boozing all week, so try and be accommodating. Something extremely gross has probably happened to them during the way and they need a glass bottle of vino on a Saturday night to forget all about it.
Not a student who does arts, the actual art student who oozes creativity. While you’re writing a 3,000 word philosophy essay or whatever, your art student friend will be painting or designing something spectacular, which will make you feel like an unimaginative troll. Be prepared to go on a couple of nights out to the Lost Society: the art student hot spot, but luckily for you art students as a group tend to be quite good looking, boys and girls alike, so you might make a few connections (love or otherwise). Your NCAD friend will also show you various pieces of art they have done and they will look amazing but you really won’t get it, at all.
As a group, students who study Irish generally tend to be a bit more upbeat than your average student. They’re always throwing a couple of sneaky Irish words into normal conversation, they use the word ‘shift’ more than anyone else, and there’s always a céilí or two on the horizon that they’ll try and convince you to attend by bombarding you with Facebook event invites. If you want to get daytime drunk, your Irish student will definitely be game (only if you agree to dance to the Walls of Limerick with them that night at the céilí).
The medicine student friend (a.k.a the book smart friend) is usually very busy during the week but ready to get absolutely twisted at the weekend. They’re going to be offering free physicals to attractive women/men on nights out, they’re going to wake up on a Sunday morning with just their stethoscope on, and they’re going to be EXTREMELY helpful in the future. They will hopefully throw a bit of free medical advice your way when you casually bring up that burning sensation you’re experiencing when you pee.
Quite possibly your sexiest friend. If they’re a 6/10 and they start speaking French, they instantly become a 7 or an 8. Italian, Spanish, even German, speaking a second language or even a third language is hot as hell. This is the friend that is firstly going to get you into some crazy adventures on holidays, and secondly get you out of trouble if/when these adventures go horribly wrong. They are also great to have on a night out when the Spanish guy/girl you’ve been making the eyes at all night does not speak a word of English.
Media students will make you slightly resent your own course as you try and translate your boring German prose while they go off to script writing class or television production, but it probably sounds far more glamorous than it is. They’re most likely up-to-date with every television series so are excellent to consult when you’re freaking out over the season finale of Game of Thrones and need someone to talk it through with. They also know a number of interesting/trivial things about radio, television, film and the Internet, so they might be useful later in life.
This friend will have a few really interesting and freaky stories to tell you about psycho experiments from the past and they usually have to lug around a MASSIVE text book or two which might come in handy for you some day as like a door stopper or something. Be alert though. Your psychology student friend could be watching you at any time, examining your body movements, analysing each word you say, all in preparation for their future career. On the other hand however, they might not give a crap.
If they do philosophy as part of their degree they’re probably doing it for intellectual stimulation that wasn’t really available to them pre-university. You are allowed to ask them once, and only once what the meaning of life is because they probably don’t know and that joke gets old pretty fast. If they’ve chosen to do a degree in pure philosophy I recommend being super nice to your philosophy student friend because they’re probably really intelligent but they will panic about the future and have a meltdown some time soon.
The make-up student friend is possibly the hottest friend, but if you’re a boy this friend will generally only be useful to you one day of the year: Halloween. But man are you going to be a kick-ass-whatever-the-hell-you-wanna-be. For girls this friend is one of the best to have. They’ll usually transform you from acceptably average-looking, to deceptively hot for the price of a drink or two.
A politics student is a very clever, very loyal companion to have but do not get sassy with your politics friend EVER. These people mean business. They are hoping to one day make a living out of not answering questions directly and telling everybody what they want to hear, so they might be one the most charming people you know, but be weary. Also, most politics students are completely fluent in sarcasm.
This friend might be your ticket to stardom one day but could also just as easily be your future ‘moocher’ friend if they decide to drop everything in pursuit of living the dream. If they’re extremely talented: GREAT. Everybody loves a little sing-along at a sesh and maybe one day they’ll get a lucky break and take you with them. If they’re not so talented however and are delusional enough to think they can make it all the way when they really can’t: NOT SO GREAT. Backup plans exist for a reason. Guide this friend to make practical life decisions if they stray from the path of reality.
If you compare being a science student to being an arts student (which most people do) you see that they have nearly twice as many hours in college a week which means twice the amount of work so your science student is probably tired as hell at the end of the week. They’ve been going to labs and learning about cells and such so be sound and get locked with them at the weekend. Also, if they’re doing general science they have to do maths in first year. THEY ARE VOLUNTARILY DOING MORE MATHS. I have a lot of respect for that.
This friend is a rare one but an excellent one to have. They will hopefully get you free into random little gigs in town, pit passes or backstage when you actually have a concert ticket and then there’s the ultimate goal: you might meet someone remotely famous one day. You’re going to feel like a V.I.P. either way, even if they’ve only gotten you backstage to meet the Original Rudeboys.
Tastiest friend of all to have but they’re going to try and make you fat. There is no two ways about it. There is only one reason why people go to culinary school: to bake and cook mountains of delicious food all the time, to then feed aforementioned food to best friends, friends become fat, and culinary school friend ultimately become the most attractive of all. It’s deliciously evil.
Music Tech students are just naturally pretty cool. They don’t try particularly hard to be this way but they evoke some inexplicable desire in a lot of people to become friends with them. Your music technology friend can be found in their dimly-lit bedroom, probably stoned, hunched over their Mac trying to finish a piece of music for a quartet that was supposed to be submitted several days before. Usually up for an all-night rave.
There are obviously a few exceptions but English, history and geography students all tend to be just down to earth, sound people. The majority of Arts students study English at one point so it’s hard to say much about such a wide group of people, but being an English student definitely does not mean that you love books. There are PLENTY of English students who go through their degrees reading as little as possible and who still excel. Clever English students. A lot of history students however are big book-worms and have an alarmingly quick wit. They are usually found drinking coffee. Geography students are lovely but are usually just as clueless about world geography as the rest of us.
Your youth/community work friend will probably only be in college three or four days a week, meaning that they’re free to party for a large portion of the week so they’re a fantastic, go-to friend to have. A lot of their coursework is about developing their people skills and how they speak to teenagers and such. This doesn’t help you directly, but good communication skills often translate into great wing-man/wing-woman skills on a night out.
Engineering students are logical, practical thinkers and are generally people of very few words. They’re usually the unintentionally funny one of the group. They’ll sit there quietly, possibly sketching a bridge or something similar, and just when you’ve become completely immune to their presence they will make a comment that has absolutely nothing to do with the topic at hand, but will come across as nothing less than comically genius.
If you’re studying law you have to be able to come up with comebacks quickly and you have to perfect the ability to twist peoples words so cleverly they have no idea what’s going on. As long as your law friend does not practice this on you you’ll be completely fine! Law students are very witty and excellent to have on your side when you’re in an argument against someone else.
To my complete surprise I have found that business students are some of the most fun people in college to be around. One might assume that they’re all super serious, talking about taxes and balancing accounts in their spare time, but I have found that the business students I know are always skipping lectures to go for midday pints in the SU and are always up for the sesh. Would definitely recommend investing in several business student friends for your group.
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