College is an emotional roller-coaster. It’s filled with busy schedules, dreadful midterms and finals, evil professors, and so much homework you think you will never finish on time. It is also filled with endless opportunities for the future, insightful, thought-provoking, or entertaining classes, inspiring professors, and, of course, college parties. Here’s a list of reasons why the thought of graduating college is daunting and, frankly, not so appealing.
- Friendships
In this day and age, it’s easy to keep in touch with friends through social media, but once you graduate college, will you actually see those people ever again?
- College Parties
As much as people like to think they can still go out to bars or clubs and rage like they just turned 21—even though they just turned 31 two months ago—partying post-college doesn’t seem the same. Besides, you can’t get into a Greek party unless you’re on the list, and probably you’re not on the list if you graduated college five years ago. Lame.
- Big Kid Jobs Looming on the Horizon
I already feel adult enough with 18 units and a part-time job, now I have to think about a job that I want to do for the rest of my life? No pressure there. But that’s a little too much adult-ing for me to think about right now.
- College is the best time of your life
If it’s the best time of my life, then why would I want to leave? Can’t we just stay in college forever?
- Living in the Real World
Although college is most students’ first taste of freedom, college is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to independence. In college you have to worry about paying rent and making sure you eat so you don’t die. Once you graduate, life is suddenly all about that Big Kid Job and making a living, which can be way more terrifying than living in the dorms.
- The Future
In college you choose which path you want to take and which you want to avoid. In the real world you don’t get that kind of luxury because you never know what is going to happen. At least in college you know there is a mapped out plan for you. Not so much when you graduate, making the future a foreboding place.
I love college. As much as I enjoy making my own decisions for the betterment of my future, I’d like to keep the future as just that: in the future. I thrive off learning new concepts, ideas, and perspectives in college; I never want to stop learning and so I want to cherish every moment of college while I still can. Although I can’t avoid the future forever, at least for the time being I can enjoy college. Rage on, you over-worked, stressed-out, crazy college kids.
