This is what you start daydreaming about during long hours of studying for finals. It is the ultimate payoff for all of your hard work and a time to finally relax. However, when you leave for the summer and hit the snooze button at 6:30 a.m. for your job, you realize that those 8:30 classes weren’t so bad after all. That’s not the only thing you realize, though. Summer is a time to reflect on your semester and truly appreciate the small things. While having had almost finished the first month of my summer, there are a few things that I look back on which I’ve been able to compile in a list that could go on for pages. Lucky for you, I’ll give you a little preview. So, here are a few things I miss and appreciate about college life:
- Thinking that a 9:00 class was way too early!
- Not getting dressed in business casual every morning, sweats are more appropriate.
- Devoting your whole Saturday to football games.
- Never coming home to an empty room.
- Instead of having one closet, you have everyone else’s to run to.
- Squeezing in a work-out at midnight is perfectly acceptable.
- Realizing you’re hungry at 3 a.m. and Jimmy Johns is there in 2 minutes.
- Being surrounded by inspiring YOUNG people with BIG dreams.
- Being a mentor to amazing 3rd graders at College Mentors for Kids.
- Going 18 hours without sitting at the PUDM (Purdue University Dance Marathon) for the most courageous Riley kids.
- Realizing how much a letter in the mail from home can mean.
- Always having someone to kick back and have a movie marathon with.
- Keeping in touch with your high school friends that mean so much.
- More importantly: having them visit.
- Getting involved with anything and everything.
- Being introduced to people with so many different interests. There really is something for everyone.
- Finally, meeting friends that become family when yours is so far away.
--- Jacey Abney
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