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I'd take college anyday. Then again, in my current "real world" setting I work 80-100 hours a week. In college, classwork and regular work combined never topped 70 hours (actually, until my last two years they never topped 50 hours). I wasn't even a very social person in college and stumbled across a dozen new people a day. In the real world, it's the same old bastards every day and meeting someone outside of your working environment can be difficult (particularly if you live hundreds of miles away from the area you grew up in). And, of course, I didn't have to study very much (class-dependent, though) yet still got A's and I actually loved the academic environment (my parents are teachers, what can I say?) -- honestly, if I could have stayed in college forever, I damn well would have. It's hard to explain why I finally left -- graduation alone didn't do it -- should have just gone on to law school as I had planned to. Of course, I generally hate lawyers so becoming one, after a while, smelled of hypocrisy. Anyway, college was a lot cooler than the shit I currently live and the ultrashit I lived before college. But that's just me -- most people I know prefer the "real world." Then again, most people I know are, unlike me, married with two or three kids -- for them to say college years were the best years would be borderline blasphemy... and the sign of an oncoming middle-age crisis...
BTW, Happy Birthday Violet.
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