Toward the end of most peoples' high school careers, students tend to disregard all of the things that were actually nice about it. With the prospect of college and a new chapter in the near future, the small things that a cushy, public high school offers are easily taken for granted.

College is great, but there are so many things that students pursuing a higher education wish they could have taken with them. These are just some of the things that I miss most from my high school days.

1. Study Halls

In college, you are expected to do all of your work on your own time. While you're probably thinking that sounds more than manageable, I will give you a tip: It is so much harder than it seems.

Between classes, clubs, a job and just having the experience of being in college, it is pretty difficult to make yourself study and get work accomplished. Your study halls go from being literally scheduled into your day to being crammed in before your 9 a.m. class, if you can manage to get up that early.

2. Lockers

I rarely used my locker toward the end of high school, but now I wish I would have. There have been so many days when I've been late to class simply because I forgot to grab a book from my dorm.

Though it might not seem like it in high school, having everything you need on site is a luxury.

3. Student-Teacher Relationships

Don't get me wrong-- so many college professors are amazing people and will always be there if you need to reach out to them for any reason.

The difference, however, is that professors generally teach a lot more students than your high school teachers did. In addition, depending on how large your college is, you may not get to take more than one class with your favorite professor. You may try to stay in touch, but it is hard to do so when you're working with so many different people.

4. Free Textbooks

You know those giant books they provided you in high school that you never read? You'll be missing those when it comes time to pay for your own books at college.

In recent years, college textbook prices have sky rocketed. There have been semesters where I went without a textbook rather than pay $200 out of pocket for something I would never read again.

There is an upside to buying your textbooks, however: the sweet, sweet victory of returning them at the end of the semester and sometimes getting a quarter of what you paid for them to begin with.

5. Your Favorite Classroom

In college, professors don't often have their own classroom. Instead, they take their fancy folders from classroom to classroom and never have a chance to settle down.

Since no professors actually have a classroom they call their own, it leaves the walls of the rooms you will be learning in less than pleasing to the eye. Bright white walls and the same desks in every room are to be expected.

6. Gym Class

For those of us who are less athletically inclined, it is hard to find a gym class available at school that isn't based around some specific type of sport. You also have to have skill, which is laughable if you are anything like me.

In high school, this is a different story. While physical education might be the bane of your existence now, the ability to show up, get dressed and put in the teeniest bit of effort and somehow still manage to land an "A" is a privilege in its own right.

7. Free Printing

While some universities have a free print quota, students are generally on their own after about 300 pages. At the point you start having to pay just to print the paper you whipped together at 4 a.m. the night before it was due, you are going to miss running to your high school library and making copies for free.

8. Some Semblance of a Sleep Schedule

Everyone has heard the horror stories of pulling all-nighters at college. When you actually get there, however, it becomes more than just a nightmare.

I am a person that needs my sleep, and college has not been especially suited for that. I miss making myself do work at a semi-decent hour, and going to bed around midnight. Though waking up at 6:30 a.m. sounds like a drag while you're in high school, one day you'll wish you still had the ability to do so.

Chances are, if you have graduated high school and are pursuing a college degree, you look back on these seemingly annoying things now and wish you had appreciated them more. Despite the things you wish could have come with you to university, college is still one of the best times of your life.