I did enjoy college, and looking back at it I wish I took advantage of all it had to offer (from education and the fun side). I had a good time, but I mostly stuck to a path and didn’t explore different classes, paths, etc and didn’t get outside my comfort zone as much as I could (meeting new people, etc). 
 

With that, life after college is great. Discretionary income is a wonderful thing, living in nyc is a total blast, and traveling and enjoying some of that money is fun. I’ve been able to meet many great people, travel the world, and do so much more than I could before. Then you can always do grad school and do it again with money. But anyway, it is a great time. 

 
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The people that claim that college is the best 4 years ever and post-college life is awful drive me insane. College is unbelievably fun. Lots of parties and drinking and nonsense (depending on where you go). If you work hard when you’re in school and get a decent job you will continue to have a good time and enjoy yourself. Life is not shit when you graduate and IMO the people that think that are generally the ones who had a little too much fun in school and never took anything serious enough to set themselves up for a future. I have a lot of friends from my degenerate fraternity that are the classic “college is the best 4 years of your life” type. It is a terrible way to live.

 

But wait, aren't you guys constantly on here talking about how IB is 80-100h a week? I can not, for the life of me, figure out how you can possibly enjoy the same carefree leisure-heavy life that you had in college when doing something like IB

 

Who knows, the entire time since I’ve graduated has been fucked with COVID so I guess we’ll see once cities start to truly open up

 

Facts to this. Like yeah I miss seeing some of my buds every day since we all have jobs and many of them are in different cities, but that makes those times when we are all together so fun because everyone has the "fuck it, lets go nuts" mindset.

Dayman?
 

I miss freshman and sophomore year, when all it took was to get laid was to ask a chick to play rage cage. I don’t miss Jr and Sr year which were spent making up for that, all about balance even if it’s across all 4 years. Right now, I’m probably front loading work for a sabbatical “volunteering” for a year in a third world country on a beach to spice up the rez  before B school. 

 

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