Adjusting to Life After College
It’s Finals Week this week for most of my college buddies. And there aren’t that many still in college, especially after graduation this month. It’s got me a little sentimental and I’ve been thinking of my past college days.
It took me a while to be excited to be out of college. I was ready to be done with school, but I missed having everyone to hang out with just a few steps away. A few weeks ago I had a nightmare that it was the end of Spring Break and I had forgotten to do all of my homework. My relief was great when I woke up to realize I had graduated two years ago.
And the best part is–and this took me a while to realize–the best parts of college are still around. I get to invite people over to my apartment and we can hang out and have fun. I’m getting very excited about this life after college. I just need to focus on the awesomeness and not get bogged down in the daily struggles.
What do you think? Are you ready to graduate? Do you miss being in college? What fun things do you do with your friends?
Then (2006)
Now (2009)
May 2nd, 2009 at 8:21 pm
I miss being within walking distance of all my friends at college, but other than that I’m very glad to be done with school.
As for what fun things I do with my friends, well, apparently I stick out my tongue and do the “rock on” symbol.
Life is good.
May 2nd, 2009 at 9:14 pm
I commuted to campus every day, to I had a bit of a different take on things; life was really just school, work, family, and friends when I had the time (or forced myself to make time).
Even still, there were some great times in college with some fantastic people. That much, I do miss.
I agree with Sky… life is good.
May 3rd, 2009 at 2:44 pm
I’m scared to graduate, because as much as I wish I could stay in Erie, there aren’t any opportunities. It is very hard to leave this city that has become sort of the center of my friendships. Even though a lot of people are leaving and going far away, somehow Erie is the core. No matter how far people go when they graduate, they still have the opportunity to come back to Erie, because they still have friends here, and they will come here because this is where their friendships came from. Although I can visit, I will miss going to Intervarsity and worshipping and going to the various events.
May 4th, 2009 at 10:22 am
I agree that life after college is awesome. Ironically this comes from the guy that loves learning so much that I took a year off and then jumped right back into a different college. BUT, grad school is not college. I live on my own, actually make some money, and have to work hard on problems that other people haven’t already solved. It can look like college, feel like college, but I know the truth that I am done with college.
I still reflect back on those good old days where I would be attempting to fall asleep in minutes while Aaron was sitting at the computer playing video games and Andrew was lying on the couch preparing for sleep and usually being very deep and abstract. In the midst of all the new and awesome friends I am making here, I agree with Nicky in that I still have a piece of my heart back in that Almy dorm where I lived for four years, in the same room, in the same bed.
July 19th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
I need to decide what I’m going to do with the rest of my life, and that’s scary. Going on to grad school would be cool, because I love learning and doing problems, and would one day like to teach others to love learning as well. BUT I can also interview for a GE leadership program, that would be an awesome opportunity to learn new things while being in the workplace for two years after I graduate, and take a class with all the GE leadership program people at the same time, learning from EE’s and Computer E’s too. I have no idea!!! Either way, I love locomotives, and engineering, and learning.
. Graduating will be rough at first, but I will probably be okay with it in the end.
September 19th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
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