Last night I had a telephone conversation with my "little brother" Andrew from my undergraduate fraternity. It is alway interesting for me to check in with him and see what is going on at my college and here about guys I knew as freshman now seniors, etc. The conversation got me thinking and reminising a bit. At some point after most people graduate from college there comes a time when they say to themselves, "Man, I wish I was back in college." I think the attitude is the result of many things, which include a desire to be younger and have less responsibility again, a desire to have a bit more of the youthful (and often stupid) optimism we all had in college, and of course we could all use the free time.
I frequently go to the university gym, which is usually full of undergrads for the most part. I look at them and sometimes catch little snipets of their conversations. I am envious of their free time and their ability to still be at a particular fun and exciting time in their lives, but I do not want to have the mental attitude or maturity level of a college student anymore. I would be willing to go back to college today if I could be the person that I am today, but I would not want to do it again as I was. The truth is the person who could fall back into college life without skipping a beat and be the same person they were before has not matured or grown at all and probably college was a total waste of time for them in the first place.
This post is under the heading of "law school" mostly because I anticipate there will be similar feelings as I continue my studies here. Certainly there were things I would change or do differently all along the path that has led me here, but you could not pay me to repeat me experiences unless I knew what I know now.
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