Does anyone else miss college?

[moe.ron]

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

[Glitter650]

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.

[blueangel]

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!"

[Rudey]

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

[DolphinChicaDDD]

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

[RioLambdaAlum]

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.

[ShyViolet]

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

[Boodleboy322]

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

[ZTAngel]

Originally posted by TriDeltaGal
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!

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.

[RUgreek]

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

[dphies00]

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

[TriDeltaGal]

Originally posted by ADPiZXalum
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.

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)

[ZTAngel]

Originally posted by TriDeltaGal
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.

[UCFStefanie]

ZTAngel

Its on your website too. Its very moving!