'Mom, can you transfer money?' #CollegeIn5Words reveals what college is really like

By Fusion Staff | May 7, 2015 | 8:07pm

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Forget the glossy brochures and shiny campus tours. Want to know what college is really like? The truth is on Twitter and it is brutal. Also hilarious.

Here are a few nuggets of truth from the hashtag #CollegeIn5Words, which recently trended on Twitter.

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1. You’re going to be poor.

2. Naps—actually, sleep in general—will trump most everything.

3. Except maybe food.

4. There’s still this little thing called school.

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#collegein5words will there be a curve?

— bree (taylors version) (@bemorgenthaler) May 7, 2015

5. You will regret some of your decisions.

6. But not the decision to go to college.

My best decision so far. #collegein5words @UF #ItsGreatUF

— Erin Magliozzi (@ErinMagliozzi) May 7, 2015

Emily DeRuy is a Washington, D.C.-based associate editor, covering education, reproductive rights, and inequality. A San Francisco native, she enjoys Giants baseball and misses Philz terribly.