Things I miss

I was lying in bed this morning, refusing to get up, and thinking of all the things that I miss about being at University. Here is part of the list:

• My peaceful room. I really, really, liked my room in the dorm. I loved my bedspread, and my curtains, and my mosquito net. I also loved that for the first time in my life, I had a space that really was just mine.
• The Cafeteria. Lots of people complain about caff food, but there is something wonderful about having one's breakfast cooked for you every morning, and being able to roll one's dirty dishes through the dishwash hatch and not have to do them. I know, terribly lazy of me. I'm salivating thinking of hot granola, juice and cheese toast - eaten during an 8am lecture. Those were the days.
• The smell of the factory. The estate our campus was on shared its grounds with a health food factory, which makes very well known breakfast cereal. You couldn't get away from the smell. When I was younger, and would visit the place with my parents, the smell was the most distinctive thing. After about 4 months of living on campus, you couldn't really smell it anymore - but if it started raining, or got misty, you'd smell it all over again. Lots of people hated it, but for me, its a safe, homey smell.
• My lecturers. Again, a strange thing to miss. They were the deliverers of assignment deadlines. But they were fun, and classes were great, and they let me nap in the hallway
• My friends. For 3-4 years, we all lived within a few minutes walk of each other, ate nearly every meal together, saw each other in the libraries and College Hall of an evening, got up to mischief together, and now we are scattered all over the country. And none of us are very good at keeping in touch.
• My dorm neighbours. I miss sitting together in the TV room watching Alias, and Boston Legal, and Scrubs, and Grey's Anatomy (yes, I actually did watch that show...shame!), and Stargate, lol. I think one of the reasons I really don't care that we don't have a TV is because TV became a social event. It was an escape from assignments and isolation, and a chance to have a chat.
• The computer room. I didn't really go down to the basement computer room in my final year, because the dorm finally got wireless internet. But when I lived in the basement in 2nd year, the computer room was a great hangout. Adele, Jess and I used to get into all sorts of crazy clothes that we found in the "free" box. (Actually, I think that might've just been Jess). I'm still sad I wasn't around to see anyone's reaction to the computer that we dressed up.
  

And so much more.....