I was feeling extremely nostalgic and had a lot of time to reflect and came up with a remarkably/surprisingly long list of things I miss about university life!
1. Late nights: Be it for last minute assignment submissions or last minute studying for an exam, I miss caffeine fueled late nights. It seems stupid , but I miss the fact that even if I was unprepared, a late night could save me from failing or messing things up majorly.
2. The insane dorm mates: Living with people is always fun! Especially when they're so different from you. During my final years in the university, I made friends with the most unique people and they ranged from being insanely shy to crazy party animals. It was a time when new experiences and inexperience were treated quite the same.
3. Missing classes: If I had a dollar for every class I missed, I wouldn't be a millionaire although I'd come close to having a few hundred bucks. It was so easy to miss classes by oversleeping or finding something more productive to be with your time and catching up later with the webcasts (if there were any) or troubling your professor with doubts.
4. Funny professors: Though they have a reputation for being harsh, most professors are actually pretty cool. Some of them are worth going to class for and when you attend their classes, you actually enjoy yourself while learning something new. Here's to the amazingly cool professors who helped make sure that Engineering was fun and actually worth the torture your exams put us through
5. Friends: You make the closest friends in university. You spend four years of your life attending classes with the same bunch of people, end up having lunch with them almost every other day and heck, sometimes you meet your life partners in university. Friends you make at uni tend to stay with you forever. Meeting them after you all get jobs is difficult but when it happens, you're the happiest bunch of people there is.
6. Holidays: Don't we all wish we had more holidays! At university most of us take these holidays for granted- the recess weeks, the reading weeks, the summer and winter breaks. Most of the people who work hardly get the time to just throw their feet up and relax,especially when you're working on a high end project where they sometimes expect you to come in during the weekend *yikes*
7. 24/7 convenience stores: Shops get it, we need that dose of caffeine in the middle of the night and they're there for us. 24/7 convenience stores were the absolute best part of staying on campus, be it for a late night food craving or get toiletries.
8. Free stuff: Want to try out a dance form you've been wanting to try for ages- join the multitude of free dance clubs on campus. Want a bunch of freebies, you've got it at the forum where they're advertising something or the other! Free trials, discounted F&B, free stuff comes as a part and parcel of student life and honestly, you're never too old to enjoy freebies. Too bad you stop looking like a student after a while!
That's all I've got at the moment, but really, I'm willing to bet there's a lot more that I haven't included. I miss university life! I want to go back!
