I’ve been at UA for three and a half months now, and although I am so in love with the university, sometimes I just wish I would have embraced what I had at home during high school a little more. These are just a few things that I didn’t appreciate enough at home before moving here:
1. Having to walk five minutes just to get to your car to go somewhere.
But really. Sometimes maybe even ten minutes if you forget where you’re parked. I’d rather just sit in my dorm and never leave than have to walk all the way across the street to get my car.
2. Having to go upstairs to do your laundry. AND THEN PAYING FOR IT.
Should I take the stairs or the elevator???? Elevator, duh. And you would think for $25,000 a year I could at least do laundry for free, not $3 a load. Mom, dad, put some money on my act card PLEASE. (That is if you even manage to do your laundry).
3. Then finding an open washer and dryer might as well be a test of survival of the fittest.
For the love of God, JUST GET YOUR CLOTHES OUT WHEN THEY’RE DONE.
4. Home cooked meals!!!!
“Wanna go to lakeside for dinner?” Do I want to walk ten minutes to go eat dining hall food? NO. Can't we just find something here in the dorm? Oh... wait.. THERE IS NOTHING.
5. High School - where classes are easy and you don’t have to walk twenty-five minutes to class in 108 degree weather or the pouring rain.
Seriously though, high school is a breeze compared to college. Also, appreciate the air conditioned hallways with ceilings that you get to walk from class to class in (in under five minutes).
6. Having your own bedroom.
Yeah, even though I live in Pres and have my own bedroom, the place, much like UA in general, is party-central. Monday night? Better believe the people above you are going to be dancing around upstairs and the people down the hall will be blaring “Dixieland Delight” (but hey, that’s okay even if I do have an 8 a.m. and it’s two in the morning. If Dixieland Delight is on, you just embrace it).
7. But really, HOME COOKED MEALS.
Lakeside, I am tired of salads and pizza and honestly Chick-fil-a gets old after a while. Someone, please just send me some lasagna or something.8. Having my family around.
Okay college is rough and some days you just feel like crying and you want to hug your parents and hear that it’s going to all be okay. But wait, they’re hours away and you probably won’t see them for a few more weeks. Oh well. Better suck it up, buttercup.
9. Having your pets just a whistle away.
Animal therapy is a very real thing, and after a long hard day I just want to cuddle with our family dog. Too bad he’s a couple of hours away too. Guess I will just have to look at cute puppy videos online.10. Seeing familiar faces.
Back at home, I couldn’t leave my house without seeing someone I know. Here, I never see the same person twice. Do half of y’all even go here???
11. My home town southern baptist church.
Yeah, yeah Highlands your church is great and all, but I miss my congregation of fifty and the old hymn books (and hat day the first Sunday of each month).
