i miss being a coop student
i miss the 2.5h friday lunches. i miss playing cards at lunch. i miss meeting new people every term and working on different projects all the time. i miss being able to say “oh well, i’m just a coop”. i miss gossipping about the full timers. i miss slacking off and noone really caring what we do. i miss going out with people after work. i miss the stress and excitement of applying for coop jobs. i miss looking at the postings, hearing about what amazing interviews people are getting, and seeing how the employers ranked you. i miss the stressfulness of being “strategic” in your job rankings and job choices. i miss being able to come into a company with fresh new eyes and being able to pick out things that can be changed. i miss being positive and excited about work. i miss working with people that i respect and want to “be like” (of everyone i work with, there’s really only one person that i consider to be a “role model” for what i want to do in the future). i miss being able to switch projects every 4 months.
i miss living away from home, and with friends…
i miss watching prison break, amazing race, and sex and the city on james’ big tv. i miss cooking yummy meals together, and then watching tv together while eating them. i miss eating so much that i’m unable to do anything afterwards but fall right asleep. i miss cursing at the phone/internet/cable companies EVERY SINGLE TERM for screwing up and rendering us disconnected to the rest of the online world. i miss the stress that was “house-shopping” every term. i miss not having to tell anyone where i’m going, what i’m doing who i’m gong with or when i’m going to be back. i miss cooking what i want, eating what i want, eating how much i want and eating when i want. i miss living within walking distance of bars, clubs, and fast food. i miss being able to take a $10 cab ride home from clubs. i miss the cheap drinks. i miss being able to wear bluejeans into a club. i miss decorating people’s doors on their birthdays. i miss surprising people with candy-filled cakes. i miss the late night chats. i miss the balloon peopel and our balloon mice. i miss our balloon family, and our balloon RIP wall.
i miss student meals…
i miss going out for wings EVERY monday night. i miss our “everyone-contribute-one-ingredient-to-the-corn-soup soup”. i miss grilled cheese sandwiches with bacon and spam. i miss laughing at janet eating her food out of the pot (even after 5 years, i still can’t bring myself to eat food out of a pot/pan). i miss instant noodles. i miss kraft dinner. i miss hot dogs. i miss making “gourmet dinners”, while improvising on ingredients and kitchen appliances (have you EVER tried to make fresh pesto by chopping and mixing up the basil by HAND??). i miss our oven-baked lasagnas, our massive nacho platters and taco nights. i miss eating at pho viet, and watching the “office politics” of the teenage waitresses and the guys in the back. i miss how you can take any piece of meat, stir-fry it with any vegetable, steam some rice and have a perfectly quick, easy, healthy meal. i miss being sick of east side marios and front row,c ause those are the only big restaurants within walking distance of the campus. i miss the massive burgers at the grill and of course, their waffle cones. i miss mr. sushi.
i miss the student lifestyle…
i miss procrastinating with my fishies! i miss having them on my desk and watching the little bablies swim around. i miss worrying about them overheating and being cooked in the non-airconditioned oven we call student housing. i miss the nosiness of procrastinating on friendster and reading people’s blogs. i miss working out at waterloo womens fitness, going to an all-girls gym, and going to a gym that has fitness classes runing all day, every day, from first thing int he morning till 10 at night. i miss going to the gym in the middle of the day. i miss only having to drive 5 mins to get to the gym. i miss being able to take a nap whenever i feel like it. i miss being able to skip class whenever i feel like it. i miss being able to skip assignments, and being able to say “screw it, it’s only worth 3 marks” when i don’t know how to do something.
i even miss the hell that was school….
i miss the exam period intensity. i miss feeling like i’m going to fail every single course because of not having gone to any classes and only half-heartedly doing my assignments. i miss studying in MC. i miss going to school to start working at 11pm, when other people are starting to leave. i miss being the only one in the classroom, working through the night with my music, being super-productive, and then going home in the wee hours of the morning. i miss being busy; i’m still somewhat busy now, but it’s a totally different kind of busy, an inflexible kind of busy. i miss pulling allnighters and then cooking bacon and eggs in the morning and making janet’s room smell like meat. i miss walking home in the morning and seeing the family of bunnies running around the in the strip of grass by DC. i miss breathing the crisp air while walking home, after having stressed out all night over finishing an assignment. i miss being able to assume that all the data entered would be valid. i miss not having to do any stupid error-checking and exception catching in the code. i miss being able to submit code that was “65% good”…i dont’ think clients appreciate code that’s “65% good”. i even miss the crappy wireless connection in DC. i miss my bullshit business courses. i miss being about to ace my bullshit business assignments without doing any work in the course whatsoever. i miss barely passing my CS assignments, despite having spent hours and hours trying to undersatnd wtf was going on. i miss studying at 2nd cup.
couldn’t agree more~