I miss being surrounded by an absurd amount of attractive girls.
I miss being surrounded by an absurd amount of attractive girls.
CollegeBro wrote:
As someone who is currently running for a major D1 institution I find this question very compelling. Obviously I don't miss college, I'm still in it, and I f*cking love it. But at the same time I am winding down my career here and starting to look towards the next phase of my life; moving somewhere new and getting a job.
I have been wondering a lot recently how much I am really going to miss being here and specifically WHAT exactly am I going to miss. Honestly, running in college takes up a substantial amount of time between practice, traveling, and just being in a semi-constant state of feeling like you need 12 hours of sleep to recover.
But at the same time I get to hang out with 25 of my best friends for 4 hours every day, I get to go across the country and to beautiful campuses and race random dudes that look somewhat like me over various metric distances, and I get some damn good sleep at night when I finally do hit the pillow.
I guess I have a feeling that if there are a few things I am going to really miss they are: the camaraderie of the team, the feeling after doing a crazy good workout/race, and the idea that there is a direct correlation between the job I'm going to get ($$) and the amount of knowledge in my brain before an exam.
But the things I think I'm most looking forward to would have to be: evenings/weekends being spent as I dictate, disposable income (really anything besides -$, because -$ sucks), and being able to do regular sports again (distance running severely hinders the ability to just go out and play basketball or football or snowboarding or whatever else requires a lot of energy and high amounts of lateral movement/ potential injury).
So for anyone else who ran at a big time program I gotta ask, how green is the other side?
While in college, everyone hears that "These are the best days of your life. Enjoy it." There are good days ahead but college is a unique time that you'll never experience again.
1. You live on a beautiful campus. You have hundreds of acres of land with historic buildings and beautiful landscape. In the future you'll live on a cup-de-sac and work in a cop orate office park, most likely.
2. Everything in front of you is still new. By age 30, 40, etc. you'll fall into a routine of things that you think you like but once you've perfected this routine you'd hope like hell to find something new and stimulating. Wait until you've been married for a few years, have a couple of kids, and find your self at youth soccer games. Holy shit, you'll miss college.
3. Your best earning potential is ahead of you. Right now you just have to scrape up enough money to buy beer and pizza this coming weekend. In the near future you'll be setting off on 40 years of paying stuff off. House. Car. Education. Kids' education.
4. In 20 years you'll be burying your parents.
Enjoy college.
CollegeBro wrote:
If I do well on my exams then I will have a higher GPA than if I do poorly on my exams. A higher GPA will result in me making more money coming out of college. I'm pretty sure that how it works anyway...
It can work that way, and then it might not.
Not exactly sure why people are trying to argue this post or the logic behind it but I can guarantee you that if I get a higher GPA I will have the chance to interview with KPMG (min. GPA 3.5) vs. Kohl's (min. GPA 2.9). KPMG pays better than Kohl's coming out of college. That's all I'm trying to say. Obviously there are other factors in the interviewing process that can help, such as having family/friend connections at a company, something like that, that can help me get my foot in the door but then again that's all a GPA is; a way to get your foot in the door without having those connections.
CollegeBro wrote:
Not exactly sure why people are trying to argue this post or the logic behind it but I can guarantee you that if I get a higher GPA I will have the chance to interview with KPMG (min. GPA 3.5) vs. Kohl's (min. GPA 2.9). KPMG pays better than Kohl's coming out of college. That's all I'm trying to say. Obviously there are other factors in the interviewing process that can help, such as having family/friend connections at a company, something like that, that can help me get my foot in the door but then again that's all a GPA is; a way to get your foot in the door without having those connections.
I remember when I was this naive. You're buddy with the rich dad who loves to preach "b's and c's earn degrees" will unfortunately find himself in a much better spot upon graduation, regardless of gpa.
C Parker wrote:
I miss being surrounded by an absurd amount of attractive girls.
This, and there's a new crew of female freshmen "imported" every fall. And then there are always the "townies" / local girls (who work the all night restaurants and can be hot and...).
I knew it was an awesome set up when I was there, and told all my friends to appreciate it because you will never have a set social situation with new people coming in every fall. etc. etc. etc.
After college, go to grad school.
The time in your life you will spend out of college will be far larger than the time you "suffer" through college.
..There's a reason Apple and Silicon Valley started calling their business complexes "campuses," and putting in cafeterias and free beverage coolers at the ends of the hallways.
It's like school, only you get paid!
College is better.
Find a way to max enjoy it, and stay as long as you can...
A different opinion wrote:
Nope. Everything you did in college you can do as an adult. Drink, get laid, have a lot of fun. As an adult, you're not paying thousands of dollars to do it and don't have to study for BS exams. People miss college because they give up their freedom by getting married or having kids.
For the most part, I tend to agree with this. When I first got out of college, the only basic changes were working vs. class and getting paid vs. paying. I still lived within walking distance of all the best nightspots, partied with my friends, etc. As "different opinion" wrote, the big changes come with marriage and children. The reduced freedom and added responsibility can weigh on a person in a much heavier way than daily classes ever did.
I will say that I miss being on a college campus every day. To me, there's just a certain kind of youthful energy that can't be duplicated in the hum-drum corporate world.