Unless you study in your own hometown or really close from home, you probably live in a dorm or in an appartment during the school season. For most of the college students, this is the first time they are living alone - and by 'alone', I mean 'without family around', not specifically all-by-myself alone. So, here are a few of the main differences between living with your parents and living without them - either all-by-myself or with room/flatmates.

With parents: if you don't have your room clean 24/7 or in the five minutes after your mother tells you to clean it, you are in big trouble. So you do clean your room in four miniutes and a half and the left thirty seconds are to make sure everything is, indeed, clean.

Alone: you decide to be a responsible grown-up and make a fancy list with all the tasks you have to do. It's really organized, color coded, numbered, with specific timing for each task, products you need, how, why and when. Then, you nake a nap. When you wake up, you decide to do it tomorrow.

With parents: your mom calls for dinner, and if you don't show up in two seconds she will call 911 because the only reason that justifies you being late is that you died.

Alone: you wake up at noon, eat some cereal, grab a cereal bar and go to classes. For dinner, you realize it's already past ten and you don't feel like cooking, so you go to McDonnald's.

With parents: the moment you put on that shirt with a wrinkle on the arm, your mom is telling you to chance clothes; if you want to wear those ripped jeans, your father will ask if you're ok and if the driver that run you over is fine. And don't even think about leaving your house with those dirty shoes.

Alone: clothes leave the hanger directly to your body and you are more likely to use the same shirt two days in a row than to actually attend classes. Homeless is your new look since week one and only really strong reasons will make you dress differently.

With parents: you start classes at 08h30, so you wake up by 07h30 and then have a five hour class marathon with two breaks in the middle. Lunch break lasts ninety minutes and then you go back to classes until 18h. When you get home, you still have homework to do and to study for next week's test.

Alone: you wake up at 09h29 to have classes at 09h30, eat your breakfast very calmly, take a shower, dress up and show up school at 10h30. You attend the third class and then go back home or to the café because you feel so tired. There is no homework and you only study for test the night before.

With parents: you only have to worry about buying lunch, some snacks and candy at the shop in the end of the street. By the end of the month, you still have cash for, like, twenty coffees.

Alone: you buy lunch and suddenly you have no money. You still need to make some copies, buy food, pay the bills, get coffee and beer and you have no idea what happens to money after it gets in your wall.

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