# What did/will you miss when you moved out to college? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 15, 2001, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-will-you-miss-when-you-moved-out-to-college/76390 "2001-08-15T14:59:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2011, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-will-you-miss-when-you-moved-out-to-college/76390/21 "2011-05-15T14:30:13Z")
> [@Rilchiam](#): > > Great! Then maybe he can tell me what a baterist is. I already told you! _pout_ ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2011, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-will-you-miss-when-you-moved-out-to-college/76390/22 "2011-05-15T15:04:28Z")
Ohhhhhhh, I didn’t see your edit! Thank you thank you! Now I know! ::bows:: ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2011, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-will-you-miss-when-you-moved-out-to-college/76390/23 "2011-05-15T22:53:15Z")
Wow… Damn, I’m getting old! This was almost ten years ago! I don’t even remember the concert I mentioned in the OP. Let’s see: I miss my second last name, but I now get to be addressed by it (see later). I don’t miss my jerky classmates, although I still got some jerky classmates. Their jerkiness has changed. Many of those that were jerks in HS did end up apologizing, and they were accepted. I still don’t miss the part of my family that steals my things (and/or are not pleasant to be around). Now that some of the family that I did miss have died, I’ve reduced my contact with some of them. I still miss my family. I have now my own, certified lovable mutt. BTW, **KarlGauss** is the older, male, human doctor. I’m the younger, female, animal doctor (working on another graduate degree). So we’re actually addressed as “Dr.” at our respective workplaces. Ten years have brought a lot of changes in my life. Two degrees, three states, a new language, a car, and a boyfriend. ---
**Author:** ![rekkah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee59a6/32.png) [@rekkah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rekkah)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-will-you-miss-when-you-moved-out-to-college/76390/24 "2011-05-16T22:00:57Z")
> [@KarlGrenze](#): > > BTW, **KarlGauss** is the older, male, human doctor. I’m the younger, female, animal doctor (working on another graduate degree). Well that explains why I find it so difficult to keep the two of you straight… ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2011, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-will-you-miss-when-you-moved-out-to-college/76390/25 "2011-05-17T02:04:03Z")
I commuted an hour each way between Boston and home. “It’s” always means “it is” or “it has”. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2011, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-will-you-miss-when-you-moved-out-to-college/76390/26 "2011-05-17T05:47:29Z")
I never wanted to live on campus. I had my own room at home with a cook and free laundry service. It was air conditioned and had a pool. My room had a nice stereo and TV. It was quiet when I wanted quiet and it was clean. If I wanted to “party” I got into my car and drove somewhere and met up with people. If we wanted a little excitement my friends and I would go on a road trip on the weekend. We all had cars and gas was cheap. When I was in college it was legal for 18 year olds to drink so we would meet for a pizza and beer for lunch. Yee and/or haw. For the life of me I have never seen the benefit of living in a dirty, noisy closet-of-a-room with a bunch of other people. If I had the money to go to a quaint old school with ivory covered buildings and spacious private dorms I might enjoy the experience but I never wanted the hell that is campus life. The same applies to fraternities. Here’s the thing, I already had friends and none of them wanted to spank me. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-will-you-miss-when-you-moved-out-to-college/76390/27 "2011-05-18T12:26:50Z")
Miss: Free food (cafeteria). Actually having money… A few friends, my better roommate. Regular contact with intelligent individuals. Keeping in shape by walking to class. Using the vending machines to get Sacajawea dollars. Don’t miss: the very sterile living arrangements. The drive home. The snobs. Getting nervous around the snobs. Not being able to eat if I missed meal time. Certain teachers. Pretty much everything else was take it or leave it. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-will-you-miss-when-you-moved-out-to-college/76390/28 "2011-05-18T14:56:47Z")
Home cooking and a car to drive. Otherwise, I was just fine. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-will-you-miss-when-you-moved-out-to-college/76390/29 "2011-05-18T15:11:12Z")
I can’t think of a single thing I missed, other than maybe my mom’s cooking and getting to spend time with my family. I went to a concrete-block high school in a very, very conformist suburb, and I had been the weird unpopular kid for _six years_. (To be fair, by the last couple of years my classmates were starting to grow up and might have wanted to be friends with me if I had let them, but by then I was so gun-shy from years of steady bullying and harrassment that I didn’t even know how.) Going to college was amazing. Little, ordinary things like going to parties and hanging out at Denny’s until 3 a.m. were amazing. Plus, I got to take _an entire class on Shakespeare_, and a rather bizarre freshman seminar that involved reading lots of Plato and hanging out in the basement of the classics building watching black-and-white movies. It was like paradise for nerds 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-will-you-miss-when-you-moved-out-to-college/76390/30 "2011-05-18T15:23:09Z")
I missed having my own room. I detested having roommates. Until about the third year, when my gf and I were allowed to room together in the dorms. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-will-you-miss-when-you-moved-out-to-college/76390.md?page=1)