Does anyone else miss college?
 

Because sometimes I do so bad that it hurts.

Meeeeeeeeeee Toooooooooo! And, I'm being serious. College was a lot of fun...I miss UGA...take me back!

On occassion, I do miss the people I used to see every day, but now hardly ever. I even miss being in school---I'd like to go back and get my masters one day.

College would have been great except for those pesky classes! :p

There are things I miss and things I don't miss. All in all, I miss college, but not enough to want to relive my college days or go back for another degree.

I've been out of college for ten years now (sheesh...where DID the time go?!!) and I remember missing college very intensely the first few years. Those are, very definitely, good times in most people's lives. I held onto it as much as possible by going back for Homecoming, helping out during Rush, etc. but after awhile you realize the life you've created for yourself AFTER college is rich with meaning and good things too, and you move on. At least I did!! I'm sure you have lots of great things ahead of you too.

I am starting to miss it a little because I just graduated about 4 weeks ago. I agree I really do miss the people that I knew.

I just found out I'm getting my B.A., like two weeks ago. I really miss Radford. Isn't the quad beutiful this time of year? This applies to all campi, not just my Alma Mater. The Quad is always beutiful.

My Soror-best friend and I were just reminiscing about college. We both admitted that we missed it. Those four years were sooooo much fun!!! The capers we got into!

I miss Radford;-( It was so pretty there. Texas is nice but our trees don't change colors. The trees just turn brown and fall off sometimes. I mostly miss the people. I try to keep in touch, but everyone has their own things going on now. And I can't really drive in for a weekend like lots of them get to do. Oh well! That's why I'm getting involved with the revitalization of the Alumnae chapter here in Houston!

It will be 12 years this spring since we all graduated.
I miss it sooo much....luckily, I'm only a few hours away from my alma mater. I am able to go down a few times a year for big events or just for a visit if I want to.

I really miss most of my friends more than anything. Too many of them live really far out of state and I rarely get to see them unless it's an important event.

What's hard is that all of us who used to be so close and right there for each other just a few doors or buildings away are now hundreds of miles. Since we've graduated---we've had 5 weddings, four babies, two divorces, a loss of one of our children. It hurts so much not to be able to hold their hands or hug them when they are really going through a tough time.

I miss our hanging out time more than anything. That's when we really talked a lot.

Not yet. Fortunately, I live in the same city as my chapter and recent alums are welcome to come to activities and even meetings. I think my college period is welcoming to recent alums. I see alums at school wide functions and private parties all of the time. I guess that's like the only positive thing about going to a commuter school.

I missed college intensely for the first couple years after I graduated. I think what I missed most was having people my own age around to go do things with no matter the time or day. So, I became an advisor to AGD and went back to grad school at night, while working full time. Then I realized, I'd taken on all the "work" aspects of the sorority and school, but was still missing all the fun stuff.

Enjoy it now! You won't realize how great it was until it's gone.

Dee

It's so weird, because I miss it SO much. BUT, it will never be the same. Sure, I could go back to get my masters, but that wasn't what was fun. Even towards the end of my senior year, when everything was winding down, it just did NOT feel the same. People leave and move on. I mean, I could go back to the fraternity tents and try to relive the football games the way I remember them, but I'd be hanging out with 18 year old sorority and fraternity new members. I have gone back to Columbia for some things and I walked around campus and I could've cried. I mean, not that you can ever be POPULAR in college (at least not the same way as things worked in high school), but I did know TONS of people. Then I went back, and walked into the cafeteria not knowing ANYONE. So sad.

The other thing I miss is not having REAL bills. Like, I could spend thousands of dollars a semester on NOTHING. Eating out, going to bars, that cute dress I HAD to have for Beach Weekend. Now, I spend my money on car payment, insurance, rent, utilities, and student loans. I barely have anything left at the end of the month to enjoy myself.

Hell Yes I Miss it!:)

Been out since '67 and if not have gotten married would tried to still be there in some form or another!:cool:

Try to tell you youngsters who say school is so hard!;)

Well sports fans, when you Grad. and get a job, you will do it until they plant your old butt in the dirt!:(

Oh Ye of little faith enjoy it while you can!:D

Re: Does anyone else miss college?
 

Ahh, Optimist Prime, my heart literally broke for you when I read this especially since I know what you are going through!

I graduated almost two years ago and the first year was especially hard but slowly it lessens with each day as you become more involved with other new aspects of your life. Let me tell you, I would cry sometimes after talking to friends still in the house when they would tell me about events or all the fun times they were having. I actually lamented here on GC too about it with ZTAngel and some others when I first graduated. I would miss sitting on campus, going to class, and going to sports events as a crazy student fan. I missed literally EVERYTHING about being a student!

I still miss all of these things but I promise it will get easier!

Good Luck and hope you feel better soon!

Edited to fix some of my late-night spelling errors!

I miss the everyday mundane things in college. Like being hungry 3 in the morning and going to Pano's. :(

I totally miss college and I live 10 minutes away from my campus.

I wouldn't give my school any prizes for the beauty of its quad... but I miss hanging out there, tabling, just eating sammich during break... == sigh== even when I do go back it's not the same.

I graduated from the University of Florida and loved every minute at school! Yes, I miss it!!!! I had the most wonderful friends, and thought UF was just a truly amazing experience.

I remember when they handed me my diploma, I wanted to say, "No thank you, not yet!"

Some days I love work and my life outside of it, but I look forward to going back to school also. I enjoy meeting new people in that environment and learning. But things I can do without: frat parties with sticky floors and gross beer and gross girls, never being done with school work (when I leave work, I don't go home and do homework), the job search combined with school work, the costs.

-Rudey

i miss college too!!!

especially at times like tonight, when i called my little and she had to get off the phone quickly because they had a meeting.
now i'm sitting here thinking about all my sisters sitting around having a meeting and slating officers, and them not realizing how good they have it. what i wouldn't give to be back there!! even if it did mean staying up into the hours of the night picking officers:(

Do I miss college...okay wait a second I am techincally back in college to get 12 credits to renew my Pre-K lisense I have with my associates degree (thank goodness I don't have to do that with my bachelors in mass comm.) but I am not back at Rio.
SO let's answer it as if I wasnt taking these classes.
I miss Rio and the people I just don't miss the classes...or should I say having to study for them since there are professors I miss.

I've only been out for a little over a year and I miss it! Well, some things anyway. Especially my Sorority chapter!! And the Cookie Jar (a fav. restaraunt in town close to the house I shared with friends). I also miss my trumpet and clarinet playing housemates, the coffee place in the research building where I did my undergraduate thesis, the music listening library where everyone hung out (yes, I was a band geek), the forty-below weather, and my old campus job.

But I'm a postgrad. now, and so still in student life, although at a different university. I just can't imagine what it'll be like to face the real world after I get my PhD. ;) haha

College Days
 

I do miss my college days and all the hooplah that went on with my life. I still go to homecoming, bowl games, sporting events, and try to keep in contact with the actives in the fraternity. I can honestly say that college was the best thing to ever happen to me and joining Phi Mu Alpha was the best decision I ever made in college.

Fraternally Yours,

Boodleboy322

Re: Re: Does anyone else miss college?
 

Yup, I remember.

It was hard a first. Especially the first couple of months. It was tough going from the college environment where I still felt protected and so accustomed by that lifestyle. I was the first of many of my good friends to graduate. My roommate and boyfriend both had another semester left. While I was getting up at 7am to go to work, they were staying up until 7am partying! I had to worry about my 401K, my health insurance (I was now under my own work insurance rather than my dad's), and how to make myself seem incredibly professional at work although I was only entry-level. It's was tough but I got use to it. I still miss the fun times in college but I don't think I want to go back to it. When I come home from work, I have the whole evening to myself. I can go to the gym, cook, run errands and not have to worry about studying. The weekends are now my playtime for hanging out with friends. Also, I was so poor in college and I definitely like that I now have the money to buy things!

It's a tough transition to make but you eventually get use to it.

Going from college to a graduate school probably eased the transition and effects for me. I think abou the college life, but I don't miss college itself. I had a blast when I was there, but it was a 4 year vacation and I'm just happy I had great memories to share.

RUgreek

I loved college! But by the end, it was nice to transition into a different sort of life. I used to live in a college town but moved two weeks ago. Hanging out in the town's bars was weird because I was a townie and Thursday nights were the SHU's college nights... it was like I watching some other kids' partying. But now I'm here in Brooklyn and I'm excited about being a young woman in New York City!

I miss Pittsburgh though! I miss O cheese fries, and dancing at the fraternities, and the Cathedral of Learning! I can go on trust me... I recommend going to every sporting event of your colleges' that rolls through town. Tomorrow night, I'm going to the Garden to see Pitt play St. John's! I looovveee doing stuff like this - though it helps to have gone to a D1 school and the conference's geographical limits extend to my new life.

I miss it so bad sometimes that it makes me cry. I heard "closing time" the other day on the radio and it reminded me of Wedensday night karaoke at Treffs (they always played that at closing time) and then I heard Hot in Here and it reminded me of my hugest crush in history on this really cute sigma chi, and then I heard this other song that my friends and i would always dance to when we would go country dancing down the road from waco. I miss my friends, i miss thte fun times, I even miss the classes. I wish I could go back and do it all over, minus tests. I even miss the football games!! it's kinda fun to love a team that SUCKS(we're getting better!) I went to the Baylor/TAMU game this year and saw all the freshmen in their line jerseys and all the Kappa take-a-date shirts and all the silly traditions that makes it Baylor and was like, wow, life went on here without me, i thought once i graduated everything here would stand still, but it keeps going on. HAHA that was the weirdest thought. That sounds stupid, but life continued on there just as it had before me, while i was there, and after i was gone. That's so stupid, but basically, to answer the original question.......................Yes i miss it like crazy

Ahh, I feel you ADPiZXalum... I really miss college when I hear certain songs too especially...

Brittany Spears "I'm a slave for you"
(makes me think of exchanges and date parties my senior year)

&

Natalie Merchant "These are the days" {I think this is the name}
(this song was in DDD's slideshow video when I rushed and I cry everytime I hear it)

That's my chapter's song, too! We have our own words for it. We have it in our Zeta video during rush and the whole chapter sings it to the PNMs. We play the song at every formal and Senior Send-off. I heard it on the radio the other day and I got a little choked up. :)

ZTAngel

Its on your website too. Its very moving!

*groan* Yes, I miss college! But I'm going back, so maybe I'll feel better soon. :)

However...it's a different college, so I'm afraid I'll feel like a freshman again even though I'll be a grad student. :eek:

I did miss college and then I went to law school where it is a very similar experience all over again. Unfortunately I'm graduating this year, so the post-graduation scaryness(sp?) is back again!

Are you kidding? I felt old when all of the sudden I was the only one in a bar who didn't need a fake ID... I think I'd feel like an out-of-place geezer if I were out in 5 points as a grad student.

Then again, I'm going back to my Dance Marathon alum banquet... and I can't WAIT to be in five points with people from college again.

LOL...I know the feeling.

As far as college---as much as I love my alma mater, I'm glad I'm not a student there any more. Most of my friends from college are here in NYC, so it's not as if we're scattered to the four winds. Plus, none of us have gotten married or started families, so in some ways it's the same--but with more money and less stress.

One thing I do miss about college is my best friend from Brown. She died about six months ago and there's not a day that I don't wish she was still here.

As a grad student, I often feel like a freshman...especially when I never bothered to learn where everything is on the campus. So during finals when I was trying to find the library, and was getting mocked by some fraternity boys (grrrr)....

OtterXO- i'm leaning towards attempting to put off real life again by going to law school after grad school.

Yes, I miss college.

However, this past week was my first in graduate school, and all the crappy parts of college came flooding back to me. My book is sold out at the bookstore.....it won't be reordered until next week.....I need it for an assignment.....everywhere else on the Internet wants $15 more for it.....lots and lots of work (now being balanced with a full-time job). But I am very happy to be back in school and I'm taking all the bad stuff with the good. :)

Music bringing back the days
 

There are definitely songs that make me reminisce about the good ol' fraternity days. Anytime I hear the radio play Semisonic "Closing Time", Three Doors Down " Kryptonite", Linkin Park "The End" I think of playing fooseball with bros. down at the local University pub hitting on hot chics and making fools of ourselves.

Ya'll I thought I was the only one that had this problem! When I was in college, I was in a "protected" environment (my parents financially supported me) but I felt so independent and grown-up. Now, I am stuck living with my grandparents because I am going back to school part-time and looking for a job. I don't know anyone to live with in an apartment so I am stuck with no life watching my grandparents drool as they catnap in their chairs! Life is so boring now!

I took my two small children back to my college campus to visit where mommy went to school. I showed them my old dorm on the Horseshoe (Rutledge). It was really weird. A lifetime ago. You never feel so old as when you see people 18 years old and realize you could be their mother!

Rutledge was a dorm? Was it honors college? You smarty pants you, DGMarie. ;)

On a side note, I went back to Dance Marathon, and it just felt WEIRD. I was standing over with the old GA for Greek Life and the old Greek Life Coordinator, and I felt so OLD (even though both of them are under 30). I think it was just because I wasn't the one in the middle dancing anymore. And the kids that would have looked so old to me when I was in college looked like BABIES. So weird. I did get out and do parts of the dance that I knew, though!