Around this time of year, most seniors are wishing they weren’t graduating. The idea of finding a job in the middle of the current economic downfall seems daunting, and most of us are scared and want to stay cuddled up in Bobst. Basically, we’re already getting nostalgic about our time at NYU, even though we haven’t even graduated yet. We already miss our teachers and our comfortable schedules. As we continue to enjoy the few Fridays without school or work, we’ve thought of a few things we’re going to miss.
This summer, in the lucky case that we find jobs, we’ll be doing a 9 to 5, or maybe even a 9 to who-knows-when. Yes, we’ll earning money instead of paying to go to NYU, but our leisurely days will be over. No more casual coffee breaks, no more hitting the gym between classes, and no more sleeping in. We’re moving on to real life. However, once we leave work, there will be no homework, no exams, and there will be happy hour. So it’s not all bad. Maybe we’ll even enjoy it!
College is great. You get to take exciting classes, and if you don’t like one of them, it only lasts a semester. Believe it or not, I enjoyed most of my MAP classes. “Conversations of the West” (as it was called before someone stupidly decided that “Texts and Ideas” was better) taught us how to have adult conversations. In Nat Sci, you can learn cool, if gross, things about the human body. These classes were great. They gave us a break from our major classes, made us learn a foreign language, and let’s face it, they were some of the easier classes that we took at NYU. But maybe it’s just because everything seems better in hindsight.
What we’ll miss the most was that sense of optimism that we had when we began at NYU. Optimism that we’ll make as much money as the generation above us. Optimism that we’ll find someone to be with. And now, we’re jaded and bitter.
When you think about it though, being nostalgic isn’t that bad. It means that the time we spent at NYU have been the best years of our lives. Yes, there were hard times, but all in all it was a fun ride. We learned cool stuff, we made friends, we got drunk, and now we’re growing up.
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Clearly whoever wrote this article wasn’t one of the 91 percent of NYU students who have held summer internships, school-year internships, or a part time job. Must’ve be nice to have those Friday’s free for sleeping in..
http://www.nyu.edu/careerdevelopment/survey/2011/parttime_2011.php
I’m sorry, but this reads too much like a silly Thought Catalog article.
I went back to school for a master’s degree in Nursing Informatics after having not been in school for 34 years. Throughout school, I maintained a full-time work schedule (12 hour night shifts, no less) and I somehow managed to get into an academic honors society along the way. I was lucky if I got to go out to dinner once in a while. If I went to Starbucks before class it was simply to get a snack and a coffee to stay awake. I loved my time at NYU and I loved learning new things. But I sure don’t miss the pressure of assignment deadlines and writing papers.
This is so vague and nondescrip. Surely there’s a senior on the NYULocal staff that could’ve written something more telling of their four years than this jumble of nostalgic buzz words… Being a student at NYU is way more than what this article describes (which sounds like any student’s time at any university). I’m a fan of NYULocal, but this is definitely one of the more disappointing posts…