So many people on my Tumblr are going back to university or college and it makes me miss it like crazy.

I miss the pace of life as a student. I miss how simple life was. I’m not saying it was easy, although it was at times, but it was certainly simple. I didn’t have many, if any, worries at all. I just had to get through one class at a time and I made a lot of time for my friends and cool people in my life.

Undergrad was weird for me. The first couple of years were really slow (but not bad, I made some AMAZING friends who I love to this day) but the last two years were really great fun. I met hundreds of people, did some really memorable things, and enjoyed myself a whole lot.

When I think of university I think of it as a combination of all of those things. I mix the academic and the social in my mind. I feel like it has to be appreciated as a whole. Undergrad was great.

Postgrad wasn’t so bad either. I certainly focused more on the academic than the social but there were more than a few highlights on the social side during my masters.

I miss learning in a formal environment. I miss meeting new people. I miss being challenged by everyone around me. I miss randomly entering intellectual conversations and making some brilliantly well-informed comment. I miss being in the loop of everything that is happening in the world (as a politics student I really had to be on top of it all!).

I feel like my brain has turned to mush in so many ways but there are still people in my life who challenge me in so many ways and they’re the ones who keep me sane in more ways than they realise.

There’s so much to miss.