College was not the best time of my life

Day 20 of 100

This is not to say that I hated my college time, because I did enjoy it a lot. Without it I probably would not be where I am now but, my time wasn’t the best. While in college I was constrained, lived at home with my mom, didn’t have a job, and was always working on school work. College is like two full time jobs. You go for your classes every week, then when you’re done with the lecture you go home to study and prepare for the inevitable test. A lot of people have told me that my time in college would be the best time of my life, which is undoubtedly wrong, where I am right now is the best time of my life. But here are my reasons why it wasn’t the greatest:

Living at Home

My time in college, I lived at home with my mother. It wasn’t terrible, it was alright, but I had a lot of annoyances. After class I would be tasked with running all of the errands of the house, groceries, take my mom/family members to their appointments, etc. Then I would clean the house, do the yard word, and by the end of the day I would have to find time to do my school work. Listen to my mom complain about me not having a job, I would try to find a job. When I finally did get a job, doing college work, I was falling behind at the house which caused even more complaining. I did everything I was asked to do, while balancing the school load, and when I wasn’t doing school work or running chores I would spend my free time playing some video games.

No Car

This ties into the living at home part. My mom would either drive me to school or let me drive on some days. I would work and do chores around the house to earn my privilege to drive the car for the week, but it was always subject to last minute “I’m taking you to school today” or “You need to find a ride.” Which put a damper on things like getting to class on time, or having to ask friends for rides on such short notice.

No Job

I did not get my first official job until I was nearing the end of bachelors degree. Which not having a job in college, really shorted my ability to do things because chores did not always net me money. I either got money from some chores, some of the time or I had money saved up from christmas/birthdays. Any spare money that I had would either go to video games or the movies. Those were my two main activities in college because all of my friends played video games, and I would hang out with them there. I never went out to bars, well I wasn’t old enough to do that. I didn’t go to concerts or anything because I didn’t have the funds.

Always a deadline

Being a college student there is always an assignment to do, project to finish, or test to study for that week. I went to a college that operated on quarters, which meant just about the same amount of work crammed into a eleven week period. I always had some homework assignment that I was trying to finish by the midnight deadline, or always trying to make sure I knew what was going to be on the test. My Google Calendar would go off just about every day reminding me of something due because the first couple of quarters I tried to commit assignments to memory. Well being a teenager in college, that didn’t work out because I would forget.