Since the holidays are over - sad, we know - it's time to get back to real life, dear students. 

Attending a university in any Arab country might seem familiar from one campus to another... that's normal. 

Wherever you are on the Arab educational map, here are the components that will complete your experience at university. 

Derbakeh rolls please...

1. When your only pocket-friendly lunch options consist of falafel, shawarma, kushari, and anything with the word saj in it

2. When your teacher insults you to show they care

3. Your grandparents, parents, and whole family asking you ”Mal2ite chi shab helou bedo yetjawaz?”

4. When you tell your parents you decided not to go to class today

5. If you are majoring in anything else other than medicine, law, or engineering you have failed your family

6. Finding yourself belly dancing while you should be studying

7. When you're walking from one class to another and you say hello to at least 12 cousins

8. Shisha breaks in between classes

9. Classes in the dark... because why not, electricity cuts happen

10. When it’s a regular school day but students are folk dancing in the middle of the university