Do you miss college?

All true except the get laid part

COllege - u pay a ton of money to party 4 years

real life - you anti-party to get paid a ton of money

no shit u miss it

you forgot to change your name before replying to your own thread, moron

sarcastic a-hole wrote:

All true except the get laid part

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.

I liked college when I was there, and had tons of fun, but I don't think I'd want to go back now. Having my own car, house, days off, vacations, and spending money is kind of nice. It probably helps that I like my job. I'm doing things I want to do. And don't have to take classes I'm not really interested in, being stressed out about assignments and grades. If it were free, or you got paid like you do for a job, then being back in college might be more appealing to me.

i definitely prefer being out of college. No stress from upcoming exams, papers, homework, etc. I go home at night and on the weekends and I'm free to relax.

Not having a coach telling me how to live my life and treating me like a child is also nice.

I'd like to do it over again, but with the wisdom I've gained since then. I'd have ignored the administrators and bitchy secretaries and would have graduated sooner.

wow

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.

This.

You can aquire just about every worthwhile bit of knowledge (not to mention the extracurricular activites) on your own time, and without giving them a dime of your money or going into debt per student loans.

Except spelling and grammar.

Huh?

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?

CollegeBro wrote:

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.

this doesn't make any sense

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...

I think that, in the real world, it's really hard to recapture the camaraderie of being on the xc/track team as well as the facilitated social interaction that comes with living amongst and going to class with thousands of people who are about the same age as you.

Things I miss about college:

* Tens of thousands of people my age in close proximity

* Interesting classes

* Not having to suck up to a manager

* Having more control over my schedule

* Being able to actually go to appointments that fall in the 9-5 slot I work during

* Actual vacations

Things I don't miss about college:

* Not sleeping

* Being poor

* Not eating vegetables

* Finals

* Lack of routine

What I miss about college:

* Carefree mindset

* Able to reinvent myself, since I'm with a new group of peers

* Unbridled optimism about my future, despite doing nothing to prepare for it

* Easy to meet people

* "Free" gym membership, "free" bus pass, "free" career counseling

* Being able to walk everywhere

What I don't miss about college:

* Feeling of intellectual inadequacy due to the large amount of geniuses and students who kids who had a head start because they went to good high schools in the rich suburbs

* Seeing everyone who isn't me get laid

* Sleeping on the 3rd row of a 3-row loft in a dingy fraternity

Summary:

In college, you can live a sort of false existence whereby it is super easy to make new acquaintances and you can reinvent yourself as "cool." Consequently a lot of college graduates have trouble adjusting to real life. The shock can put them into a depression.

Dog sh*t brown-green

Again: the people. Having a huge designated group of friends (track team) that I see 7 days a week, in addition to spending even more time with closer friends (xc team). I sure as hell miss that. It seems some people maintain that lifestyle by living in the city, where everyone seems to go after college. But some of us end up elsewhere.