Good things: Living in the dorms, far from parental supervision, you can get up to all sorts and they won’t know if you don’t tell em.
Pizza parlours and takeaways occupy a whole street near campus. You could eat pizza every night and your parents couldn’t say a word (I realise I’m showing my age, I’m before the junkfood generation).
You get to make your own mistakes. No helicopter parents around. Some of those mistakes are a lot of fun at the time!
Everyone around you likes your music or something even crazier.
Yes, college where you build up your real first debt to be paid off like a mortgage these days. Lucky for me I graduated long enough ago where it wasn’t as expensive (like orinoco).
Fondly I remember college….though somewhat of a haze…..I remember one professor….Sociology“Hello…..lets get this straight…..I don’t take roll…..I don’t care if you show up except on test days…..I will give the test days on your handout……I talk…..you listen…..questions are in written form and submitted in the box on the stage…..I will address those questions at the beginning of each class……I will not repeat…..so if you are here fine if not fine…..frankly I don’t care if you learn…..I have tenure and too old now to be drafted…….Lets begin…..”First semester at the University of Maryland 1971…..I won the draft lottery that year….deferred enlistment to finish one semester at least get a small break and try not to get killed in Viet Nam.
orinoco womble over 8 years ago
Good things: Living in the dorms, far from parental supervision, you can get up to all sorts and they won’t know if you don’t tell em.
Pizza parlours and takeaways occupy a whole street near campus. You could eat pizza every night and your parents couldn’t say a word (I realise I’m showing my age, I’m before the junkfood generation).
You get to make your own mistakes. No helicopter parents around. Some of those mistakes are a lot of fun at the time!
Everyone around you likes your music or something even crazier.
You can experiment with life.
Alec Tronn over 8 years ago
Yes, college where you build up your real first debt to be paid off like a mortgage these days. Lucky for me I graduated long enough ago where it wasn’t as expensive (like orinoco).
orinoco womble over 8 years ago
Plan ahead…take your dirty laundry with you when you go to Mom’s for the weekend!
Vet Premium Member over 8 years ago
Fondly I remember college….though somewhat of a haze…..I remember one professor….Sociology“Hello…..lets get this straight…..I don’t take roll…..I don’t care if you show up except on test days…..I will give the test days on your handout……I talk…..you listen…..questions are in written form and submitted in the box on the stage…..I will address those questions at the beginning of each class……I will not repeat…..so if you are here fine if not fine…..frankly I don’t care if you learn…..I have tenure and too old now to be drafted…….Lets begin…..”First semester at the University of Maryland 1971…..I won the draft lottery that year….deferred enlistment to finish one semester at least get a small break and try not to get killed in Viet Nam.