1. Basically feels like middle school all over again.
Having no car makes me feel like being 12 years old again, but with a license. If you want to go home for the weekend, you have to call your parents to drive all the way and pick you up, drive you back home, and then have them drive you back again within three days. This is exactly what middle schoolers had to do after school, wait for their parents to pick you up and if they showed up late, you just had to sit there and wait. It just reminds you of what not having a car felt like and going back to that state makes you feel grateful and irked for once having one.
2. Being the annoying friend.
Let's face it, not having a car your first year guarantees your role as the annoying friend. You constantly have to ask them every time you are in need of a car and working around their schedule. So if that means I have to postpone writing that five page essay that's due tomorrow to go get toothpaste at the store, I will do it because that is my only chance and I am not risking having a smelly breathe the next day. Hopefully you have nice enough friends who will give you a ride or if their super nice, will let you borrow their car, but with the price of paying for gas.
3. No to food cravings.
You want a Honey Butter Chicken Biscuit at 2:36 a.m.? Sorry you can't. Need a study break and get cookie dough? Nope. When you're craving food, you gotta eat and having dining hall food three times a day, seven days a week, just won't satisfy you. Walking to get food is definitely not an option for me, especially since most of the food options are across I-35. You need cookies and ice cream from Pokey O's, you need Co-Town's banana and nutella crepes, you need Cafe Cappucino's huge pancakes. But sorry, you can't have any of it.
4. Life on weekends? Non-existent.
Pretty much your weekends are boring and uneventful. You can either watch Netflix (which you do everyday anyways), do your school work (like that'll happen), or hang out with your friends on campus (yay). Weekends are meant for exploring and discovering the town around you, from shopping at the local Farmer's Market to buying your mom a vase at Magnolia to hiking around in Cameron Park. Though you do not have car, so how can you?
5. Random road trips = Planned road trips.
Being stuck at the same college in the same town for ten whole months will get boring and being spontaneous at times creates many memories. One thing that I was excited for college is taking random road trips to different towns on the weekends. But I can't. You have to plan when you can go home or to go sightseeing in near by cities. And how can you drive home and surprise the fam when you don't have a car? So that road trip to go to Austin on some random weekend just because is yet to happen.
6. Can't get the extra money.
Of course I need a job, I'm a college student. Sure there's on campus job opportunities, but there's so many more options around town that will interest you. Such as retail, or maybe even painting pottery, or possibly creating your own business. A college campus only has so many student jobs available, but a lot more students need the money.
