Does anyone else miss college? - Page 2

HeavenslilAngel · #1 08-30-2006, 06:40 PM

I graduated 2 years ago and I kinda still miss it but I agree with everyone else about moving on. I no longer know like the majority of the collegiate actives in the chapter. Its amazing how much time flies and how much things change in time. But I have a different problem that many probably don't have. I can't seem to quit going to school. I love to learn new things and theres always some program that I want to get into or something. Make it stop!!!! hahaha but I miss the social aspect of my college days. I'm probably going back to my college to help with rush next year, but a lot can happen between now and then. Anyway I feel ya OP!

AGDee · #2 08-30-2006, 07:15 PM

I miss the social aspect and the energy that I had in those days. I wish I could function now on as little sleep as I could function on then!

AnchorAlumna · #3 08-29-2007, 01:05 PM

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Originally Posted by AGDee

I miss the social aspect and the energy that I had in those days. I wish I could function now on as little sleep as I could function on then!

I wish I could sleep as long as I did back then!

Benzgirl · #4 08-29-2007, 08:24 PM

I've been out for 23 years and would go back in a heart-beat. OH IO

moe.ron · #5 01-12-2005, 05:42 AM

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

Glitter650 · #6 01-12-2005, 05:45 AM

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 · #7 01-12-2005, 06:42 AM

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 · #8 01-12-2005, 03:53 PM

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 · #9 01-16-2005, 08:42 PM

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 · #10 01-16-2005, 09:22 PM

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 · #11 01-16-2005, 09:35 PM

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 · #12 01-16-2005, 11:07 PM

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 · #13 01-17-2005, 08:58 PM

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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 · #14 01-17-2005, 09:16 PM

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 · #15 01-17-2005, 09:32 PM

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.