Do you miss college?

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ArrowheadSW · Accepted Answer

Yes I do. I think about it quite often actually. It was fun meeting people from all over and from different backgrounds. I dated quite a lot and got to know a lot of young women coming in to the University. I didn't end up meeting "the one" who I would leave with and get married, but that is fine because I didn't expect to anyway. For several years after I graduated, I actually felt homesick for the University. If I was going through that area on a trip, I would pull over and visit the campus. Last I was there was Homecoming 2 years ago. The dean of one of the schools on campus knows me. (She was a student there when I was a student and stayed on as a professor.) She saw me from afar and came up to me and gave me a hug.

That being said, I don't miss the stress and the endless studying and tests... LOL

msc545 · Accepted Answer

It was the best years of my life.

Calyptomaniac · Accepted Answer

Not the school part. I raced through in 3 years to get it over with. Then I did the unimaginable and went back to grad school years and years later and I raced through that in 3 years too to get it over with. But it's a fun transition from high school to being an adult, and being on your own for the first time and meeting all the new people from other places. I don't miss the homework and tests at all lol

SparklingWine10 · Accepted Answer

I miss the party days but not 7:30 am classes.

Advisor Smith · Accepted Answer

In my early 20s, I definitely missed college—the friends around the corner, the clear structure, the sense that your “job” was just to learn.

By my 30s and 40s, what I missed wasn’t college itself, but elements of it:
- The built‑in community
- The constant learning
- The feeling of open possibilities

So I recreated those: professional communities, ongoing courses, reading groups, mentoring.

You don’t really lose what college gave you—you just have to rebuild it intentionally in adult life.

OneViewpoint · Answer

High school was great. I moved on. College served its purpose for social and educational growth. I moved on. The military set me up for a great career in Fortune 100 Finance. Fortune 100 set me up to be the CFO of a $2.5 billion heavy industrial startup. All of what came before set me up to be recruited as an operating guy by a private equity firm with with $8.8 billion in assets under management. The private equity and investment banking networking set me up to run my own consulting firm.

It has all been a path forward sometimes influenced by me, sometimes pure luck and fortunate timing, sometimes the people I networked with. But always forward. I have no desire to go back and do it differently.

ohsheeT · Answer

Whether it was school or college it was a moment in time where we were free to do anything and we still are to this day we just don't take advantage of it because we've grown our friends have grown and everybody's gone their separate ways but that's the key is to find those same type of friends and start living again

They say the best times of life is when you're in school high school or college but in all honesty it's everyday it's what you want it's what you do it's how you do it you still have a lot of life ahead of you and I think you'd be a kick just to go out and experience new things with because I think you have that frame of mind you're just put yourself in a place where you're stuck but I know that you will get out of it I can feel it

HawkPerception · Answer

I miss the dating aspect for sure. There were definitely more chances to date girls than my current life has. Now my options is like a deserted wasteland. Other than that, not really. School is school. Indoctrinating you to choose a path to work for the system for the rest of your life.

abc3643 · Answer

Yes and no.
College now is likely vastly different than when I was attending in the 1980s.
I remember when I was tutoring in 1994-1995 and it was already considerably different than when I was attending 10 years earlier.
I miss teaching in college too. I am not sure I would like either college experience now - being a student or being an instructor.

exitseven · Answer

I miss the time that I went away too college and lived on campus. I was in Air force ROTC and played Rugby. I had a lot of friends and a nice girl friend. Then I had to go to a commuter college in a work/study program. It was hard and I hated living with my mother.

NathanDavis · Answer

not at all... lol the best thing about college was my college friends... they're still my friends, and they're still around... we don't need the college, lol

BCRanger10 · Answer

Kind of yes, kind of no. I never really wanted to go in the first place, but my parents believed the lie that I had to go to college if I wanted to have a good life.

OlderAndWiser · Answer

No, but I wouldn't mind repeating law school. That was much more fun!

bear34 · Answer

I don't miss college, but I miss being that age

YourExLover69 · Answer

I miss university sometimes. Not that much though.

dougeats · Answer

Not in the least bit except for the friends. I also appreciate where it has gotten me in life though

DarKnight36 · Answer

Sometimes, Old friendships are missed...

MrChinaski · Answer

No. I'm there right now!!

Paige2006 · Answer

Yes... I loved college

Anonymous · Answer

No i love my cozy job and business more.

dudeinohio · Answer

Kinda would like to finish

Badtobad · Answer

Not at all

Jmmmfi4 · Answer

Wish it went

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