Remember the days when you begged your parents to buy the sugariest cereal at the grocery store, just because there was a cheap plastic toy inside? The trinkets we used to find in our cereal boxes have all but disappeared, replaced with digital codes that are used for online rewards. Lame. I can think of a few prizes college students would love to find in their morning cereal. General Mills, take note.
1. Shot glass
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Bonus points if the glass is filled with an actual shot.
2. Money
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Get more cash, buy more cereal (or pay your credit card bill). It’s a self-sustaining cycle.
3. Hangover-eliminating patch
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Don’t be Cameron Frye. Slap one on, eat a bowl of Lucky Charms, and get on with your day.
4. Boyfriend/girlfriend/date to your friend’s wedding
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You will never find happiness at the bottom of an empty bottle, but an empty cereal box could be a different story.
5. Netflix passwords
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Since you’ve been out of luck after your ex changed your shared account info.
6. Chipotle gift card
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“Chipotle is my liiiiife,” said every college student ever.
7. A good night’s sleep
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This means eight hours, in case you’ve forgotten.
8. A’s on all your exams
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Now that the weather is getting nice, staying inside all day to study is not going to happen.
9. Time machine
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For all those late-night texts you regret sending and all those times you put off writing your ten-page paper until the night before it was due.
10. 5-year plan
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Fingers crossed that this includes graduating and finding a job.
11. More food
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Because you know you’ll be hungry again in an hour.