Finally. The end of the quarter begins to roll around and you could not be happier. But it seems too good to be true… you can’t help but wonder if the end really is in sight. Could it be a test? Or do good things actually happen to good people?
You reflect back on how your quarter went, and conclude that it was overall downright exhausting, and you hope to never endure a similar quarter of such fatigue, confusion and never-ending nights in the library.
But then unexpectedly a feeling of pure nostalgia comes over you and puzzles you. You should be so happy the quarter is over, but yet you can’t help feel a bit sad.
Well, I’m here to tell you it’s perfectly okay to get sentimental toward classes at the end of the quarter. Here’s why.
1. You spend all quarter absolutely dreading attending the class.
Why did I sign up for college again?
2. You dislike more than 70 percent of the people in the class and can’t fathom how some people could get under your skin so easily.
3. Sometimes your professor gave you work that seemed unreasonable, and you struggled to make ends meet. As a result you looked like this most of the time:
Why do I have a ten page paper due on the scientific method?
4. But, maybe you kind of liked your professor.
It’s okay to admit it. He did smile, that one time.
5. He did mean well, and he was funny on occasion.
6. You won’t have a professor like them ever again.
It’s a love/hate relationship.
7. Maybe the people in your class weren’t so bad.
8. After all, you did share the misery of the class together.
9. They understand you and you understand them.
You have an unspoken bond.
10. Even if they were a bit annoying, you’ll miss the ones that were clueless as can be.
11. Okay, maybe the work wasn’t that bad.
12. Or maybe it was.
13. But regardless, you did learn a lot.
14. Your sanity might have been questioned at different points, but overall you stuck out.
15. You deserve an award, maybe two.
16. And you don’t want to be nostalgic because the class significantly gave you anxiety.
17. And made you wonder if you were cut out for this college life
18. But you will oddly miss it
And you don’t understand why.
19. But that’s okay because the memories of that class will always be with you
20. You can look forward to awkwardly encountering people who took that class with you, as you try to wave and they don’t acknowledge you
21. And soon you will have new classes
22. And you will become nostalgic for your new classes as you did for the last quarter
23. But that’s the beauty of the system. It’s a never-ending cycle of nostalgia for things you think you really hate at the time, but end up missing. Life is a funny thing.