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This is my first post-graduation year, and I'm starting to miss college. Just last Friday all the students got released for winter break, the streets were clogged with moving trucks, and now this town is pretty empty. I was watching two girls lugging books from their dorms and heading to the bookstore, and I just got insanely jealous.

My sister told me "stay in college as long as you can!" And I did, it took me six year (very long story) and now I want to be back. :( Has anyone else felt this way, or am I just crazy?

I'm sure I will. Are you Irish?

I got my masters in '77 and last taught in college in '95. I miss it every day. It is a life like none other.

Definitely.

You got some interesting stuff to do (but never too much work) and most of your friends lived in the same city - sometimes the same block of flats.

So much better than either school beforehand, or work afterwards...

i'm sure i will, but i'm pretty sick of it at the moment.

Go get an MsC.
I'm pretty sure I won't miss college, I'm two courses away from finishing my degree and I long for the day I won't ever have to walk into that kindergarten again...

This is my first post-graduation year, and I'm starting to miss college. Just last Friday all the students got released for winter break, the streets were clogged with moving trucks, and now this town is pretty empty. I was watching two girls lugging books from their dorms and heading to the bookstore, and I just got insanely jealous.

My sister told me "stay in college as long as you can!" And I did, it took me six year (very long story) and now I want to be back. :( Has anyone else felt this way, or am I just crazy?

not at all. i hated it.

This is my first post-graduation year, and I'm starting to miss college. Just last Friday all the students got released for winter break, the streets were clogged with moving trucks, and now this town is pretty empty. I was watching two girls lugging books from their dorms and heading to the bookstore, and I just got insanely jealous.

My sister told me "stay in college as long as you can!" And I did, it took me six year (very long story) and now I want to be back. :( Has anyone else felt this way, or am I just crazy?

Do I miss the years of sexual frustration?
Do I miss the boring classes?
Do I miss the stench of beer, vomit, and pizza?
Do I miss the roommate who never washed his clothes?
Do I miss the classes where most of the guys didn't bathe regularly?

Definitely.

You got some interesting stuff to do (but never too much work) and most of your friends lived in the same city - sometimes the same block of flats.

So much better than either school beforehand, or work afterwards...

Yes, my friends are now scattered around the country. They're the only reason I use Myspace. :P

I'm sure I will. Are you Irish?
My mother was Scots/Irish.

Do I miss the years of sexual frustration?
Do I miss the boring classes?
Do I miss the stench of beer, vomit, and pizza?
Do I miss the roommate who never washed his clothes?
Do I miss the classes where most of the guys didn't bathe regularly?

All of it... except for


Do I miss the classes where most of the guys didn't bathe regularly?

:eek:

Do I miss the years of sexual frustration?
Do I miss the boring classes?
Do I miss the stench of beer, vomit, and pizza?
Do I miss the roommate who never washed his clothes?
Do I miss the classes where most of the guys didn't bathe regularly?

I'm guessing that's a big fat no. ;)

Nah not really.

Sometimes I do, though it's been such a long time since I was in college, and I've mythologized it so thoroughly, I'm sure what I remember now is nothing like what it really was. :p

Livin it. Hate finals. Death to finals.

*burns books*

I haven't been to college yet. I'm still a junior in high school.

I definitely miss college. I'm happy with my life now, but I really miss college.

I miss high school. Grade 9 girls are easy. :(

I haven't been to college yet. I'm still a junior in high school.

Now that's one I don't miss. :P

Of course I miss college. There are few places in life where you have the opportunity to sit up with friends until three o'clock in the morning discussing epistemology, string theory, Sondheim, and sex, and even fewer places where you can do that sort of thing nearly every night. College was fabulous.

I probably will once I've finally managed to graduate and started working - but right now I really want to get over with it for I've spend way too much time at university already!

Do I miss the years of sexual frustration?

:eek: I wish I where at college now

I miss high school. Grade 9 girls are easy. :(

high school/upper school FTW! (and the year before I started GCSE’s was the most fun and pointless of my life:p )

Livin it. Hate finals. Death to finals.

*burns books*

Death to Finals!!

*dances ritualistically around Sarkhaan's bonfire*

I never had a "college life", in fact college was what I did when I wasn't working, now college is what I do when I am not actively doing the rest of my life.

Yep. Though when I get a job I probably won't. I'll be living with three students next year as well, so I'll still get some of the university lifestyle.

I'll be starting in September and I know when I leave I'll miss it

if everything goes according to plan i still have at least 6 and a half years ahead , and after that the learning doesn't really stop for another 2 or more years. (if university is the same as college that is, confusing american systems)

There was no internet when I was in college, so nope.

There was no internet when I was in college, so nope.

How did people live before the internets? :eek:

There was no internet when I was in college, so nope.

*shudders*

How did people live before the internets? :eek:

Oh, it was very tough. We had to wake up before morning to chase books in the library mist and try to hunt them down before someone else did.

Those were brutish, uncivilized times which forced us to break the most sacred of laws (copyright, photocopies were cheap) just to survive.

Oh, it was very tough. We had to wake up before morning to chase books in the library mist and try to hunt them down before someone else did.

Those were brutish, uncivilized times which forced us to break the most sacred of laws (copyright, photocopies were cheap) just to survive.

Where virgins were sacrificed to the great god Card Catalog, right?

God bless the internet and mass copyright piracy

Oh, it was very tough. We had to wake up before morning to chase books in the library mist and try to hunt them down before someone else did.

Those were brutish, uncivilized times which forced us to break the most sacred of laws (copyright, photocopies were cheap) just to survive.

Oh, those book hunts! But I had a friend who had a key to the library, you see, so we could slip in there unseen and pillage the stacks! :D

Do I miss the classes where most of the guys didn't bathe regularly?

we get around to it... eventually

im still in college and cant wait to finish and start a real job.

we get around to it... eventually

im still in college and cant wait to finish and start a real job.

You'll change your tune soon enough, trust me.

Where virgins were sacrificed to the great god Card Catalog, right?

Well, they were sacrificed, period. Although I hear that still happens.

Well, they were sacrificed, period. Although I hear that still happens.

Yes, it seems a great many more virgins enter college life than exit it. The halls of academia are ... well, I think I won't go there.

Yes, it seems a great many more virgins enter college life than exit it. The halls of academia are ... well, I think I won't go there.

Yes, please don't. ;)

Yes, it seems a great many more virgins enter college life than exit it. The halls of academia are ... well, I think I won't go there.

What, no commentary on the lengths that some will go to get a good grade?

What, no commentary on the lengths that some will go to get a good grade?

The lengths? I remember comments once among the girls of a guy possessed of great width, but I don't remember anyone singled out for length. Of course, it was ages ago and I wasn't very interested in such things.

The lengths? I remember comments once among the girls of a guy possessed of great width, but I don't remember anyone singled out for length. Of course, it was ages ago and I wasn't very interested in such things.

Then there are the tales of irresponsible drunkenness that abound at university...

Then there are the tales of irresponsible drunkenness that abound at university...

Indeed, some of religious proportions. The person charged with mixing the elixir known as Purple jesus was usually found enraptured in the grass very close to the mixing site (a new galvanized trash can with a plastic wrapper).

Indeed, some of religious proportions. The person charged with mixing the elixir known as Purple jesus was usually found enraptured in the grass very close to the mixing site (a new galvanized trash can with a plastic wrapper).

Did you tattoo him with a Sharpie?

Did you tattoo him with a Sharpie?

Damn, what a good idea! No, sadly, we did not. I'm not sure Sharpies had been invented. Not under that name, anyway.

Damn, what a good idea! No, sadly, we did not. I'm not sure Sharpies had been invented. Not under that name, anyway.

Back in the day, we called it the "laundry marker".

Back in the day, we called it the "laundry marker".

I imagine we had them, too.

Ah, yes, those bright college days ...

Bright college days, oh, carefree days that fly,
To thee we sing with our glasses raised on high. [holds up eyeglasses]
Let's drink a toast as each of us recalls
Ivy-covered professors in ivy-covered halls.

Turn on the spigot,
Pour the beer and swig it,
And gaudeamus igit-itur.

Here's to parties we tossed,
To the games that we lost
(We shall claim that we won them someday).
To the girls, young and sweet,
To the spacious back seat
Of our roommate's beat up Chevrolet.
To the beer and Benzedrine,
To the way that the dean
Tried so hard to be pals with us all.
To excuses we fibbed,
To the papers we cribbed
From the genius who lived down the hall.

To the tables down at Mory's
(Wherever that may be),
Let us drink a toast to all we love the best.
We will sleep through all the lectures,
And cheat on the exams,
And we'll pass, and be forgotten with the rest.

Oh, soon we'll be out amid the cold world's strife.
Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life. (Oooh!)
(laughter) ... Ready? ...
But as we go our sordid separate ways,
We shall ne'er forget thee, thou golden college days.

Hearts full of youth,
Hearts full of truth,
Six parts gin to one part vermouth.

Im doing an MA and while college is alright I hate having work to do for january like every other year since they brought in semesterization, it spoils xmas. Additionally I want to do choose another path and become an astronaut. But meh college can be a bit grating at times and I want to do stuff as oppose to just learning what other people have done all the time. So a year out and a possible return, followed by space (if Im astonomically lucky).

Gee, there's just so much miss, the drunken frat boys rampaging across campus attacking innocent people and fellow students for no reason, the drunken students at football games who spend the entire game shrieking vile obscenities at the opposing team as well as throwing batteries at them, the mookish frat boys who hold "date rape" frat parties where a special GBH punch is brewed and only served to women, the students who cheat their way through college, whether it be by buying papers online, cheating via the use of cell phones and text messages during exams plagerizing entire chapters of books or simply bleating and shrieking that they and their 'rents will sue the professor if their grade isn't improved.

Boy it just brings a tear to my eye how much I miss it all.

Not.

And that's what college is like now and has been for the last 10 years.

Im doing an MA and while college is alright I hate having work to do for january like every other year since they brought in semesterization, it spoils xmas. Additionally I want to do choose another path and become an astronaut. But meh college can be a bit grating at times and I want to do stuff as oppose to just learning what other people have done all the time. So a year out and a possible return, followed by space (if Im astonomically lucky).
This is why I love the quarter system. No work during vacations! :D

What are you studying now, and what are you going to do to become an astronaut?

Gee, there's just so much miss, the drunken frat boys rampaging across campus attacking innocent people and fellow students for no reason, the drunken students at football games who spend the entire game shrieking vile obscenities at the opposing team as well as throwing batteries at them, the mookish frat boys who hold "date rape" frat parties where a special GBH punch is brewed and only served to women, the students who cheat their way through college, whether it be by buying papers online, cheating via the use of cell phones and text messages during exams plagerizing entire chapters of books or simply bleating and shrieking that they and their 'rents will sue the professor if their grade isn't improved.

Boy it just brings a tear to my eye how much I miss it all.

Not.

And that's what college is like now and has been for the last 10 years.
Sorry, my college wasn't like that. I don't know anyone who goes to a college like that, either. Where on earth did you go to school?

This is why I love the quarter system. No work during vacations! :D

What are you studying now, and what are you going to do to become an astronaut?


Sorry, my college wasn't like that. I don't know anyone who goes to a college like that, either. Where on earth did you go to school?

Indeed, I was just thinking the same thing...my university had no fraternities/sororities, and the football games were just horrible. It was a liberal arts school, if it needs to be said. ;)

Oh, God yes. :( I'm going back now to get my Master's, but I'm older now and it won't be the same. I can't drink as much and the sex probably won't be with as many partners. :(

Oh, God yes. :( I'm going back now to get my Master's, but I'm older now and it won't be the same. I can't drink as much and the sex probably won't be with as many partners. :(

Why, the undergrads might even call you "Sir." Okay, maybe not, but you're old now. :p

Why, the undergrads might even call you "Sir." Okay, maybe not, but you're old now. :p

Nah. They'll just hit him up for beer runs.

Indeed, I was just thinking the same thing...my university had no fraternities/sororities, and the football games were just horrible. It was a liberal arts school, if it needs to be said. ;)
My university has both fraternities and sororities, and it still wasn't anything like what Fooforah described.

Gee, there's just so much miss, the drunken frat boys rampaging across campus attacking innocent people and fellow students for no reason, the drunken students at football games who spend the entire game shrieking vile obscenities at the opposing team as well as throwing batteries at them, the mookish frat boys who hold "date rape" frat parties where a special GBH punch is brewed and only served to women, the students who cheat their way through college, whether it be by buying papers online, cheating via the use of cell phones and text messages during exams plagerizing entire chapters of books or simply bleating and shrieking that they and their 'rents will sue the professor if their grade isn't improved.

Boy it just brings a tear to my eye how much I miss it all.

Not.

And that's what college is like now and has been for the last 10 years.

Yeesh. I'm glad my college (which I left fewer than ten years ago) wasn't at all like that.

Now that's one I don't miss. :P

Hmm. I like high school right now, but I might like college better. I guess I'll find out in a few years.:)

Hmm. I like high school right now, but I might like college better. I guess I'll find out in a few years.:)

Agreed! And happy 2000 posts!

Gee, there's just so much miss, the drunken frat boys rampaging across campus attacking innocent people and fellow students for no reason, the drunken students at football games who spend the entire game shrieking vile obscenities at the opposing team as well as throwing batteries at them, the mookish frat boys who hold "date rape" frat parties where a special GBH punch is brewed and only served to women, the students who cheat their way through college, whether it be by buying papers online, cheating via the use of cell phones and text messages during exams plagerizing entire chapters of books or simply bleating and shrieking that they and their 'rents will sue the professor if their grade isn't improved.

Boy it just brings a tear to my eye how much I miss it all.

Not.

And that's what college is like now and has been for the last 10 years.

you know, i went to a school that had a greek system and went to, maybe, two frat parties the entire time i was there. the one that was obnoxious i left. usually i went to house parties, as i wasn't much of a fan of the frats and sororities anyway. my point being, you don't really need to hang out with the obnoxious people on campus. there are lots of other people on campus. even smart ones that don't throw batteries or need to cheat.

Nah. They'll just hit him up for beer runs.

Hmm, there is that. I remember that when I started college, Florida's drinking age was 21. The year I turned 21, they lowered it to 18. I'm sure it's back up to 21, but I thought that was rather rude of the state legislature.

Do I miss college? Parts of it yes, parts no. I miss living so close to all my friends instead of having them spread throughout the country... and world, for that matter. One just moved to about 40 miles away, and I'm just overjoyed, because she'd been... oh... 5000. The next closest is probably 100, and more like 350+ after that. Up to all the way around the other side of the globe.

I also miss classes. I know that sounds silly, but my brain gets bored when it doesn't get exercised enough. I liked the mental energy it took to figure out Classical Analysis, Philosophy and Non-Euclidean Geometry. I realized my freshman year as I was up at 3 am doing my Symbolic Logic homework that I was actually having fun doing it. I miss that.

And I miss not having to "do" for myself. Some maid coming in and cleaning my bathroom once a week. Heading to the cafeteria to eat instead of having to cook every day. Not to mention grocery shopping, driving all over the place, and all the mundane real life things that somehow never showed up in college.

What I do NOT miss is substantial too. I don't miss the drama, where who was going out with who, and how "serious" they were, and how the moment anything went wrong, it was the end of the world. It was almost high-school like at times. *shudder* I do not miss the sexual frustration (see above) of being single. I do not miss the drama with my parents disapproving of me deciding things for myself. I do not miss the stress of exams. I do not miss the whole slew of idiots who lived in just as close proximity as my friends. I do not miss the "cookie cutter" expectation of my particular college, where everyone almost had a stinkin' UNIFORM of blue jeans and a t-shirt. And if you broke that norm and wore GREEN jeans, you got funny looks. Much less if you wore all black, with a t-shirt reading "WGCC - 3.5 watts of throbbing power" for the college radio station. And I do not miss the cafeteria food, even if I dislike having to cook too much. Stupid eggplant parmesean disguised as chicken. And then having cereal and/or salad every day for dinner for five days in a row because the other food was inedible. Undercooked. Overcooked. Eggplant. Pumpkin Pie Soup the week after we had a thanksgiving meal. Yeah, that's well disguised leftovers.

So yes, I miss college, and NO I don't. But it is good that life goes on. It would get boring if you had to stay the same place and same age the whole time.

Yeesh. I'm glad my college (which I left fewer than ten years ago) wasn't at all like that.

Yeah, mine wasn't either. Except I'm sure both were - we just didn't know about it. At mine, if you got caught so much as having a member of the opposite sex in your room without the "shoe in the door", you were put on probation. And if you were, God forbid, having sex, you were measuring the size of the boot print on your butt after you got home about ten seconds later. It was a "dry" campus, and even empty beer bottles or alcohol paraphernalia weren't allowed. Personally, I followed those rules. Didn't have sex, and didn't drink in town, and until I was of age out of town.

BUT that is not to say there weren't keg parties. Or drunken "date rape" parties. They just had to be more careful about it. Most of them were held at local guy's houses, I think, well off campus. I only know of one that was held on campus, and they got caught and the charter of the frat was revoked, and the guys were all suspended for the remainder of the semester.

I just avoided the whole thing, and stayed blissfully ignorant.

you know, i went to a school that had a greek system and went to, maybe, two frat parties the entire time i was there. the one that was obnoxious i left. usually i went to house parties, as i wasn't much of a fan of the frats and sororities anyway. my point being, you don't really need to hang out with the obnoxious people on campus. there are lots of other people on campus. even smart ones that don't throw batteries or need to cheat.

I never went to greek parties, except once. Then a friend and I dressed up as grim reapers in black clothes and black cloaks to cover our faces... and we wandered about freaking out the ditsy girls and making people scream. It was fun. Eventually they organized a posse, and we had to make tracks and hide. Heh.

I also helped found a "frarority" with a friend. It was Mu Mu Mu, and the colors were... black and white spots. We welcomed both genders, and basically did our level best to make fun of all other greek groups in every way possible. I don't think they liked us very well.

Yeah, mine wasn't either. Except I'm sure both were - we just didn't know about it. At mine, if you got caught so much as having a member of the opposite sex in your room without the "shoe in the door", you were put on probation. And if you were, God forbid, having sex, you were measuring the size of the boot print on your butt after you got home about ten seconds later. It was a "dry" campus, and even empty beer bottles or alcohol paraphernalia weren't allowed. Personally, I followed those rules. Didn't have sex, and didn't drink in town, and until I was of age out of town.

BUT that is not to say there weren't keg parties. Or drunken "date rape" parties. They just had to be more careful about it. Most of them were held at local guy's houses, I think, well off campus. I only know of one that was held on campus, and they got caught and the charter of the frat was revoked, and the guys were all suspended for the remainder of the semester.

I just avoided the whole thing, and stayed blissfully ignorant.

Heh. My college, despite being entirely unlike the one mentioned earlier, was also very unlike yours. No one minded people drinking or having sex - heck, one of the biggest campus controversies during my time there involved several admininstrators arguing that getting drunk and having lots of sex were vital parts of "the college experience." Keg parties were fairly common, but you had to register them with the college. If you trashed the space you used or anyone got injured, the college came down hard as hell on you, so people tended to party relatively responsibly. There were also plenty of us who found the whole keg-party scene boring as heck and simply threw our own private parties. I gather that the situation has gone downhill somewhat since I left, largely due to changes in campus policy, and that drunken idiocy has become more prevalent. It's a darn shame.

As for academic matters - well, you don't get into one of the best schools in the world by cheating, plagiarizing, and screwing around. I never saw anyone so much as try to pull out a cell phone in class, let alone in an exam. I have a feeling if anyone had tried that, their ass would have been out on the lawn in no time flat. :)