10 things i miss.

since i've graduated from college i've had a lot of adjusting to do. i know in high school i used to say 'OMG, i cannot wait to get out of this crappy town (Lebanon)' and in college i would always say 'i cannot wait to get to not have anymore homework to do, EVER'. yeah well, now i retract all my statements i've ever made like that. how often is it that you live with your bffs and it's a constant good time??? i miss those days. so in honor of missing things, i give you 10 things i miss about college.

1. my roommate/bff, Kyrie. Kyrie and i lived together for four years! yes we had our fights, but we were like sisters and neither of us wanted anyone else to talk bad about the other and we were always ultimately there for eachother. we could spend days laying on the couch, drinking dr. pepper, watching television and eating chips and salsa. livin' the dream!

2. free rent. i had my scholarship that paid for almost 3/4 of my school, and then my parents foot the bill for the rest so the money that i made from camp, work, and juniors went in my pocket! only thing i paid for was gas. now i pay for it all, it SUCKS.

3. the commons. i hate, hate, hate cooking..especially when it's for just myself. the commons always had the infamous salad bar, or the grilled cheese when all other meals were sketchy. it was so nice to have food cooked for you, my ateries might not have liked it but i sure did. commons for life.

4. neighbors. i lived either in the dorm (1 year) or in an apartment where there was an abundance of college aged kids. always something going on, and always someone to go see. now, i am sitting in my recliner blogging and i rarely see my neighbors. in fact my neighbor told me once, we didn't even know someone lived there, we never ever see you. help!

5. fitness center. it was free to all students, so naturally when i was done with volleyball this last spring/winter i went and worked out at any time i pleased. now i have no weight room, just a neighbor hood loop and gravel roads. luckily at work i have an indoor track so i can use that, but i'm too embarrassed to run in front of a lot of people so i'm forced to wait until it all clears at about 5.30p to run. which is okay since i just sit in my recliner a lot.

6. baseball house. that infamous house was always where we hung out. EVERYONE knew what the baseball house was, and if not we knew you didn't belong at drury. we would party there, watch movies there, even meet there before we went out. granted kyrie and i lived literally right across the road, but it was always cooler to go there and meet people to go downtown.

7. speaking of downtown... i miss the downtown atmosphere. springfield is college central, so there were tons of bars and lots of people down there. i sound like a crazy wild child, i really wasn't i just liked to have ummm...fun! and the good thing about drury's location is the distance from downtown (or dt, as we texted it). instead of drinking and driving, bad news, we could walk across chestnut expressway to get home. lots of crazy things happened on our walks, so it was tradition that we walk.

8. my team. i miss being a part of a team with those girls. those are my friends, we all share the same bond and we all had a good time. we spent hours and hours together, and although we got sick of eachother, we were family. there is no other group of people that i'd rather be on a 12 hour bus trip with and no other group that could lay in our bunks and laugh at the most random things. miss those chicas.

9. summer vacay.  Back in college, I used to get bored during summer vacation. Two whole months of doing nothing but watch TV, read books at home, or working at a piece of cake summer job. i took some summer classes each summer but they were ONLINE, cake. i'd work volleyball camps in the summer and get paid to toss balls. now i have to plan camp, sort things for it, etc. not necessarily high stress, but my boss is a perfectionist so everything is done correctly or you redo it. i miss the days of if i didnt have to work, i went to lebanon (an hour away) or to the lake. now i have 0 days off during the week since i'm fulltime.

10. the excuse to make mistakes- and be forgiven for them. in an experimental period like college, we are given allowance to take risks and make mistakes; we were still at that learning phase. and while the learning never stops and we are bound to make mistakes in our career and adult life once in a while, the world (or your company for that matter) won’t be as understanding or as forgiving as when you were still a student. responsibility is at it's highest now.

happy jersday everyone!