Never would have expected

As I finish my last semester at Mizzou, I’m beginning to reflect on how much I have learned the past four years. Not only academically, but about myself and the world in general.

Some daily habits have completely turned around 360 degrees since my freshman year, like how we use smart phones. Other routines become habits and when you put them into context, you realize how fascinating they truly are.

Here are both some serious and lighthearted things I never would have believed if you told me them 3½ years ago.

At Mizzou…

• When you're involved in a campus organization, you're basically running a small business - with a lot lower of a budget.
• One day, you'll use your entire print quota.
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Your computer will crash.
• Twitter will be incredibly popular and vital to your professional life, and your news consumption.
• You’ll be the only one of your roommates without an iPad.
• You will know your friends’ gas-buying habits, whether they wear a seatbelt and if they’re aisle or window seat-people on planes. And maybe you’ll even iron their clothes.
• You don’t only know all about your best friends’ families, but you know about their friends from high school, and THOSE people’s friends from college.
• Every journalism student frequents Shakespeare's and the Heidelberg.
• Guest lectures and special speakers provide a lot of insight, lessons and are amazing.
• Even universities have business travel. 
• Networking is so rich that you’ll get to have lunch with three CEOs your senior year. 

In society…

• Everyone will use 3G and a data plan on their cell phone, constantly being connected.  
• Every time you send a text message or email, you’ll be able to see it as a thread and not a standalone text.
• You can send a text message from your computer. 
• Five-hour energy will exist and be normal to use.
• Google + would start and be a big fail. 
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Outlet seats anywhere, on campus or in a coffee shop, are prime real estate.
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Finding housing and signing a lease is one of the most strenuous experiences you will go through.

What would you add to this list?