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.
