Does anyone else miss college?

[AchtungBaby80]

*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.

[OtterXO]

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!

[CarolinaDG]

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.

[Munchkin03]

Originally posted by CarolinaDG
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.

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.

[DolphinChicaDDD]

Originally posted by AchtungBaby80
*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.

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.

[amgn253]

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.

[Boodleboy322]

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.

Originally posted by TriDeltaGal
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)

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!

[DGMarie]

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!

[CarolinaDG]

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!

[ZetaGirl22]

I too, know the feeling. When I first graduated, I still had A LOT of friends at the house and by b/f still had a semester to go, so I was ALWAYS around. I used to make fun of myself, saying I was a glorfied "High School Harry", to which my friend Liz replied, "no, you're more like a "University Eugene."

Things changed a lot though when I moved out of my parents house and to a different town. The town I live in now is the second largest city in MD and I live in the historic district where everyone is pretty much a twentysomething and there are A LOT of cool things to do around here. I went down to help out with recruitment this last month andwent out with a couple of the girls that I know that are still in school. When I was down hanging out in the bars, all I thought about was "I would so rather be in Frederick hanging out with my friends up there"-so things definitely do change.

[A Random DphiE]

i miss is so very much...

[ i grad recently- dec '04 ]

i get jealous when i hear some of the stories that are relayed...

i wish i was still a part of it all...

but all good things must come to an end i guess....

i'm going back to school for my master's,

but it'll never be the same...

Ooh well.

[astroAPhi]

I really want to be a college student again. Work and waking up early sucks.

I'm working full-time and taking one class at a time towards my M.S. I do have an awesome job, but I'm just so impatient that I want to be done with my M.S. already.

[Kevin]

Yes, I miss it.. It did help that I was a very active alum, but that will all have to come to a stop pretty soon.

I'll be going back for my J.D. this fall, but that's not going to be the same at all.

[Boodleboy322]

KTSnake,

Congrats on your returning for your J.D. We were both actives when we found this website and started messaging. I feel like we've known each other and have grown in GC. I've gone by the name MysticCat32 as well.

Best Wishes,

Boodleboy322