The last few months of university often start to feel like a bit of a drag. While I was out partying and celebrating my degree, I started to get a little fed up with waking up to dirty dishes and food from the night before. But, once I settled back at home, I didn’t expect to miss these things as much as I did.
1. I miss my friends on a whole new level
I knew I’d miss my university friends when I moved back home. We all live in different parts of England, and it was no surprise that we wouldn’t be able to see each other often. At least not as often as waking up and eating breakfast every day with one another. But I quickly realised that, when I got home, nothing had changed for my home friends.
Coming from a small seaside town, people tend to have a smaller mindset and not everyone leaves home. I found it hard to relate to my home friends all of a sudden, knowing that we had been living totally opposite lives for the past three years. As much as I love home, this made me miss my uni pals more.
2. The spontaneity
There’s nothing quite like coming home from a lecture to your flatmates spontaneously deciding that we were all going out. Moving home, you realise that everyone has 9-5 jobs and it’s not so easy to go on those sponty nights.
3. The freedom
Again, it was obvious that I was going to struggle with moving home after university. Most of us do, right? But the freedom of uni is truly unveiled when you return home to your parents asking where you’re off to every evening. Luckily for me, I love living at home, but I still miss the freedom of not having to tell everyone what I’m up to on a random Tuesday evening.
4. The Christmas Dinners
If you were like me, then you and your house would have made the ultimate budget Christmas dinner every year. It was simple yet so wholesome. I didn’t realise how much I would miss doing this with my house. It brought everyone together and it was the one time we actually managed to cook a successful meal each year. Trust me.
5. Lastly, I miss the lack of pressure
When you move home from university to a small town or otherwise, you’ll be asked the dreaded question that is ‘what now?’. And most of us haven’t got a clue. We went and got the degree hoping we’d work it out by the end. But we didn’t.
At university, everyone just accepts that we’re all on the same page. It’s a little student bubble and it consists of movies, nights out and lots of wine. I knew I would be thrown into adult life pretty quick, but I miss how it was acceptable to add Netflix and drinks to your daily routine.
But it isn’t all bad moving home. As much as I miss these things, I am also extremely grateful for where I am now. Without my university experience, I would only be able to cook a jacket potato and just about be able to work out the train line home.
You grow and become a new person during your time at university so, although you might miss those crazy years of your life now, the best is yet to come.