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30 Perks And Quirks Of College You Lose Forever When You Gain Your Diploma

It's inevitable, no matter how much you want to graduate now.

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30 Perks And Quirks Of College You Lose Forever When You Gain Your Diploma
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Upcoming graduation is a roller coaster of emotions. Excitement, anxiousness, fear, and PANIC. Regardless of your feelings toward this next step, these undergrad years will be missed. Through the ups and downs, the first dorm room, shower shoes, embarrassing freshmen nights out, horrible gen ed classes (for me it was Ancient Athens, everyone has one), first year in your major, first apartment lease, and the list goes on!

Here are 30 things that you will definitely have on your list of things you'll miss about college.

1. Going to class in sweatpants and no make-up

2. Mid-afternoon hour long naps after doing minimal work for the day

3. Thursday nights (Thursday nights > Friday nights)

4. Having a Starbucks on every corner of campus

5. Dinning dollars for Starbs, Dunkin, Chick-fil-a...

6. Living with your best friends

7. Being walking distance to pretty much everything

8. Late night Chanello's

9. Monday Marg nights

10. Having the least amount of responsibility you will ever have in life

11. Fall break, winter break, spring break... summer break... three-day weekends

12. Being two-minutes away from all your friends

13. Having so much free time on the weekend you don't know what to do about it

14. Every student around you is poor too, it's not just you, and it's a standard of college life

15. Getting to sleep in till 11 a.m. on the weekdays you don't have an early class

16. No Friday classes for the semester or entire year (if you're lucky)

17. Day Drinks in the fall and spring / Snow day drinks

18. "Free" gym memberships

19. Snow days / Delays that cancel your early morning classes

20. Meal plans so you don't have to attempt to cook

21. Free T-shirts

22. Living all on your own

23. Joining clubs and meeting people who share the same interest

24. Not having to work a full-time job yet

25. Staying up late to binge watch Netflix because you can and nothing is stopping you

26. Drinking on weekdays is socially acceptable and encouraged on Wednesday nights

27. Super cheap drinks (i.e. $2 marg month, dollar drinks)

28. Study buddies and friends to pull all-nighters and cry over classes in the library with

29. Pre-gaming before going out, formals, semi's, games...

30. Tailgates

Even if you are 100% ready to get out of college and plunge into the next step in life, there are unforgettable memories made in undergrad years that will be reminisced about for years and years to come.

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