You Realize You Miss College When...

By: vtman09 on August 16, 2014, 5:00 PM | 40 comments

As a recent graduate and productive member of the workforce in the small town of Covington, VA,
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I've realized how much I miss Blacksburg and college in general.

I was sitting on the golf course today and started thinking of when I realized I missed college....

1. You physically can't stay up past 11:30... even on weekends.
2. You wake up at 6am on purpose (waking up to spend 2 hours showering and doing your hair doesn't count, damnit!)
3. You can't be wrong on a math problem, or something will literally blow up.
4. "Shit, I have only one more day until I have to go back to work"
5. You're not in walking distance of bars, i.e. responsible drinking.
6. There's no benny's, gumby's, jimmy johns, or dp dough.
7. You're on call during some football weekends.
8. You don't have much money (wut? wrong list)

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2HokiesIn1's picture 2HokiesIn1
PICK 6 BIG SHOOTS
| 11 years 10 months #

8. You've got to start paying your credit cards.
9. Your choice of beer goes past Bud, Miller, Natty, & PBR
10. It's August and you don't have a tan because you're working, not laying by the pool.

A decade on TKP and it's been time well spent.

Mason Naumann's picture Mason Naumann | 11 years 10 months #

That first student loan bill arrives

hokie4runner's picture hokie4runner | 11 years 10 months # ^

Your last student loan bill arrives...

play.hokies's picture play.hokies | 11 years 10 months #

You see pics of college cheerleaders.

"The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. " Rocky B.

VTimHokie85's picture VTimHokie85 | 11 years 10 months #

.

@VTimHokie85

bthokie89's picture bthokie89 | 11 years 10 months #

I grew up less than 30 minutes from Covington. You have my sympathies.

chrisVT's picture chrisVT | 11 years 10 months # ^

I've been to Covington a few times. The whole town smells like a month-old dirty diaper.

Blue Collar Hokie's picture Blue Collar Hokie | 11 years 10 months # ^

and the reason is the pic above

"That kid you're talking to right there, I think he played his nuts off! And you can quote me on that shit!" -Bud Foster

08hokies10's picture 08hokies10 | 11 years 10 months #

You eat a burger and think, "This isn't as good as West End." Sigh.

Live for 32. Ut Prosim. Let's Go, Hokies.

Jsketch's picture Jsketch | 11 years 10 months #

You say you're going to visit friends and you flake :)
Look at what you missed out on:

vtman09's picture vtman09 | 11 years 10 months # ^

I see a condom there.

wisec4g's picture wisec4g | 11 years 10 months # ^

Hanging out with a GT alum = bad influence
gt

VT '10--US Citizen; (804) Virginian By Birth; (979) Texan By the Grace of God.

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smittyvt32949's picture smittyvt32949
📡VT RESEARCH📲
| 11 years 10 months # ^

"We Can Do That!"... Ummm, no thanks...

Pain is Temporary, Chicks Dig Scars
Glory is Forever, Let's Go Hokies!!

bar1990's picture bar1990
ATLIEN
| 11 years 10 months #

You ask a Bartender for a rail.... and when he looks at you like an idiot you realize you're not at TOTS.

ohherro's picture ohherro
🥁STICK IT IN🥁
| 11 years 10 months # ^

Maybe if you don't realize that you're not at TOTS, it's time for you to stop drinking.

bar1990's picture bar1990
ATLIEN
| 11 years 10 months # ^

Or maybe I should keep drinking?

riddle me that!

ohherro's picture ohherro
🥁STICK IT IN🥁
| 11 years 10 months # ^

Can't argue with that logic.

http://i.imgur.com/3lFHq.gif

VTnyc's picture VTnyc | 11 years 10 months #

#6 I don't miss. There is much better drunk food in life than those.

Hokies semper liberi's picture Hokies semper liberi | 11 years 10 months #

When you're in college and you actually have to study. Graduate school is not the same

West Virginian by birth, Hokie by choice

Hokieshibe's picture Hokieshibe | 11 years 10 months #

I know this is sacrilege, but I really don't miss college. I love having money to do fun stuff. I love not having to worry about homework. Ever. When I go home from work, I'm done. There's never that thought eating at the back of my mind "you need to be working on that project... you aren't going to sleep Sunday night if you don't stop procrastinating...."

Living close to friends was awesome, but I work with a lot of similarly aged people. I still see people regularly. I still make it down to Blacksburg for games. I still play drinking games to Sharknado. I just also get way more freedom. Being grown up is awesome.

It was a catch

eshiben5's picture eshiben5 | 11 years 10 months # ^

God I envy you sometimes

Taylor, looking desperately throws it deep..HAS A MAN OPEN DANNY COALE WITH A CATCH ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE FIVE!!!!....hes still open

8300A_Hokie'12's picture 8300A_Hokie'12
🏝NO BAD DAYS🏖🤙
| 11 years 10 months # ^

Shibe, I'd upleg you under any other circumstance, but in this case I cannot. Being an adult out of college SUCKS!

"The Big Ten is always using excuses to cancel games with us. First Wisconsin. Then Wisconsin. After that, Wisconsin. The subsequent cancellation with Wisconsin comes to mind too. Now Penn State. What's next? Wisconsin?" -HorseOnATreadmill

hokie4runner's picture hokie4runner | 11 years 10 months # ^

I always thought it would be great to go back knowing what I know now and with my same salary. That would up it a bit.

bar1990's picture bar1990
ATLIEN
| 11 years 10 months # ^

I know this is sacrilege, but I really don't miss college. I love having money to do fun stuff. I love not having to worry about homework. Ever. When I go home from work, I'm done. There's never that thought eating at the back of my mind "you need to be working on that project... you aren't going to sleep Sunday night if you don't stop procrastinating...."

I have these problems worse now than I did in college lol

mumansky's picture mumansky
| 11 years 10 months # ^

The best of both is to have a full time job you like AND still live in Blacksburg.

Strofan7's picture Strofan7 | 11 years 10 months # ^

SOOOOO is your company hiring? No, I don't care what it is they do.

HokieBone12's picture HokieBone12 | 11 years 10 months # ^

Checking in!

VT Class of '12 (MSE), MVBone, Go Hokies!

Shoog's picture Shoog
🤔
| 11 years 10 months #

You wake up slightly disoriented, to a a faint smell of up-chuck and a semi-clothed female speaking your name........

Only to realize that, instead of a morning after an awesome hookup,
its your wife telling you to get your ass out of bed because your 5 year old has just declared having a GI bug on the hallway floor 3 hours before you are supposed to be at work.

HokieSteve02's picture HokieSteve02 | 11 years 10 months # ^

I really miss not having kids sometimes...

VTCPA's picture VTCPA | 11 years 10 months #

I had a blueberry redbull to pick me up this week the morning after a 14 hr workday the day before and realized its the first one I've had that's not in a TOTS rail...

@vtscottyb

swvadon's picture swvadon | 11 years 10 months #

You miss not being back in college when you know that you're held responsible for your work every single day, and not only tested on it every few weeks.

NavyEMC's picture NavyEMC
🥩 🍳 🥓
| 11 years 10 months #

Every time I:
8. see a marching band.
9. hear a fight song.
10. drive by and don't recognize the place…
11. …look again, recognize the place, and wish I wasn't just driving by.
12. remember that I still don't have a degree,
13. and that the Navy doesn't let me "skip" (see no. 12).

___

-What we do is, if we need that extra push, you know what we do? -Put it up to fully dipped? -Fully dipped. Exactly. It's dork magic.

bar1990's picture bar1990
ATLIEN
| 11 years 10 months # ^

10. drive by and don't recognize the place

#10 hits hard. Going back to campus and seeing new buildings is just a reminder of how long ago I've graduated.

papilgee4evaeva's picture papilgee4evaeva | 11 years 10 months #

When Chick-Fil-A costs full price with real money.

No, I *don't* want to go to the SEC. Why do you ask?

We don't love dem Hoos.

Egbert's picture Egbert
BEER
| 11 years 10 months # ^

And no one near you can get it on Sunday.

This is going to be great for the ACC.

VT_Inferno's picture VT_Inferno | 11 years 10 months #

When you've been up all night...not because you were hanging out with friends and drinking but because ypu were studying for an exam. School that isn't college sucks.

HightyTighty's picture HightyTighty
| 11 years 10 months #

When you start having to pay for football tickets.

Jander75's picture Jander75 | 11 years 10 months #

You realize the kids getting ready to start classes this fall are young enough to be your kids...

I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction:
“I served in the United States Navy"

deathrow821's picture deathrow821 | 11 years 10 months #

You realize you're too far away to go to more than one game at Lane (and even that's not a guarantee).

Rip his freaking head off!