Sean's Blog

I work down by Yale, and with their commencement going on tomorrow, and my own graduation (which I didn’t actually attend, for what it’s worth) having occurred a little over a year ago, it got me thinking about college once again. Since I’ve already said here and elsewhere what a worthless experience it was, I won’t harp on that right now. Especially since I probably did enough to depress anyone reading this with my commencement songs post. Instead, it’s time to talk what I miss about college.

First and foremost, I miss the copious amounts of sleep. My last semester of college, I had to be up before 11 two days a week. The semester before that, I only had classes two days a week (albeit 5 straight classes, the poor thing that I was). Now, as a member of the real world, I’m up at 6 AM five days a week, out of the house a little before 7, and home usually a little before 7 at night. I’m not complaining about that, as it’s just the way things are. But I definitely miss all the sleep. Best aspect of college by far.

Other than that, I can’t think of much else I’m missing. I’m learning quite a bit on the job, which I enjoy. I’m surrounded by people my own age, so I’m not really missing out there either. I sure as hell don’t miss the top two recreational activities being drunken football, and, well, just drinking yourself into a coma.

I know a lot of people graduate from college, and go on for a few years missing it, trying to relive it, or both. Me, I’m happy just to have moved on. That said, if I could go back to school at any given point in time, I’d pick high school long before college…