Some more things I miss about college
or I get this way when I play Disc golf with college kids on a campus

*I miss being able to watch the mating rituals of students. The mating rituals post-college are sometimes observable, but they seem generally sleazier, more jaded, and/or more secretive. There's a far more innocent quality to the pre-collegiate hook-up. Or so I've come to convince myself.

*I miss the outside. Outside used to be ok. It was a place to go away and get some peace. Now it seems like it's the space to go through between buildings. It occurs to me that this is partly my fault. I'll work on that.

*I miss "random." Everything takes planning now. Where are the organic disc games? (those are disc games that just happened rather than games with discs made from earthy materials) Where are the impromptu wall-climbers, the impromptu most anything-ers?

*I miss missing. (I've found other ways and other things to miss, so this isn't entirely true, but wasn't it neat the way the seperations seemed so imposed and then the reunions so glorious?)

*I miss the lack of a degree. I knew what I was shooting for and it didn't change for 4 whole years, let alone every day.

So they ask me, "What are the advantages to being out of college?"

One word: Freedom.

So much that most of the time I still haven't figured out how to harness it, but I know it's there and I know it's potential is awesome and scary. A lot of scary, but I don't tell them that.