Do you ever miss school?

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Not the beer bonging, bar-hopping, pot-smoking and frequent casual sex. Of course we all miss that.

But saw kids start to saunter around today at the local university today and thought, "Damn, crazy as it sounds, I'd rather be going to a discussion on Kant or turning in a paper this morning than sticking a tape recorder in someone's face and pitching a story to my editor."

Maybe I miss getting grades, I don't know. Or learning something beyond the team's two-deep as my primary occupation every day.
 
COCKDIAN said:
I sure as hell miss school.

Carrying a mop and cleaning up the boy's bathroom and gym from 10:00 pm to 6:00 am isn't "school".
 
I'm hearing you. Actually, I think I would have gotten more out of some of the courses I blew off if I knew then what I know now.

(And I DEFINITELY would have gotten more out of my free time if I knew then what I know now.)
 
dooley_womack1 said:
Don't worry, eighth grade will start up in a couple weeks.

No thats not what I am talking about I will be a Junior in High School.
 
Let's see. Junior year of college . . .

took an overload of course hours . . . worked 30 hours a week part-time at the city's newspaper . . . wondered and worried if there would be a place for me at the local paper when I graduated in a year (turns out there wasn't) . . . lived paycheck to paycheck . . . had to borrow money once to get my car back after it was towed and impounded for an unpaid parking ticket . . . was tired ALL the time . . . one time I even fell asleep getting a ****ing haircut . . .

No, don't miss it at all.
 
shotglass said:
I'm hearing you. Actually, I think I would have gotten more out of some of the courses I blew off if I knew then what I know now.

(And I DEFINITELY would have gotten more out of my free time if I knew then what I know now.)

Sadly, that's usually the way life works.
 
Indeed. And I'd definitely take the living check-to-check and hard lessons for the opportunity to try it all again.
 
I miss it all the time.

I miss learning so many new things, intelligent discussions, walking through a beautiful campus to get to class.
 
As the great sports-kicked-to-the-curb-to-be-cops-writer John Barton once said of Ann Arbor:

"Days like this are best spent on the Diag; eating your packed lunch and just watching the young coeds pass you by"
 
i went to law school almost 10 years after graduating from college. it wasn't because i missed it but once i got to law school and realized that this time around it was different than college - because i had some of the adult responsibilities that i didn't have in college - but i definitely miss college. i sure as hell don't miss high school though.
 
I still have nightmares about missing exams, or the school sending me a letter informing me my degree is being revoked due to complete lack of attendance.  

Loved the college life, but not nearly as much as I love getting paid.
 

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