Just Curious....

[ReineV]

I've noticed that as a college student, I'm in the minority here on the boards. Most of you folks seem to be (technically) grown-ups with jobs, families, hubbies/wives/SOs etc. I was just wondering how you "grown ups" celebrated Christmas in college/as a young adult.

[AuntieMistletoeDear]

:hi: Good question. You were very careful not to call us old folks. Well thought out on your part. haha.

:D I have to tell you about my first College year away from home. I had a study group coming over and the decorations were up, it was early in Decemeber. I had not received very many Christmas cards yet and that bothered me because I thought the more you got the more you were appreciated and remembered at Christmas. I was beginning to feel like Charlie Brown getting rocks instead of candy for trick or treats. I had a storage box with old cards in it. I strung them all up on silver garland around my room so when the gang came to study they'd think I had received oodles of cards. Sure enough one of the guys started reading them during a study break and kept my secret, but revealed to me that some of the cards were dated with the year.
Silly Auntie.

:cool: I decorated as much as I could, more inside than out for fear of damage from vandals. Christmas lights on the outside was the most I would do.
I always made sure that I went home for Christmas. It would not have been the same without spending time with my family and relatives.
In those days, I was a bit of a closet Christmas lover - only my family and closest friends knew that I thought about it all year.

:grin: The first time I didn't stop by my parents place between Christmas Eve & Boxing Day was in 2003 when my husband and I went to celebrate with the grandkids. I needed to be around children who still believed in the wonders of the season. I'm a tradionalist with strong family ties.

:) Are you in College away from home and family? That would be tough. One of my friends who couldn't make it home, worked in the Santa Fund toy drive delivery to keep her spirits up and two others worked in a soup kitchen and a few others found friends to stay with to celebrate Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

[sheepsnot]

Even in quotes, I am blushing at being called a grownup. That's the first time. Garsh! (Digging toe in dirt)

[Ervserver]

Lived at home and went to college, Christmas was just the same as if I were going to high school except I had my own car and didn't have to be home by midnight. :)

[elfworks]

back in the DARK AGES, when i was in college, holiday break was sooooo long that i was home for all the decorating and festivating. nothing happened in my dorm, that i recall, of a xmas nature.


xo

[Ervserver]

...... nothing happened in my dorm, that i recall, of a xmas nature.


xo


no doubt ! 8-)

[Christy Carol]

Lived at home and went to college, Christmas was just the same as if I were going to high school except I had my own car and didn't have to be home by midnight. :)

I was like that too. The break was longer but I still got to be around for all the decorating.

[mrshamm]

My husband and I are still in college. He lived in the dorm his freshman year of college and went home for Christmas. I moved in with my hubby my freshman year of college...lol (3 years ago). So, we've always celebrated Christmas as a family.

[HolyNight7]

NO matter how you slice it, being away from family at the holidays is tough. Thank goodness for the Merry forums.

[sheepsnot]

I've noticed that as a college student, I'm in the minority here on the boards.
Actually, as someone who can spell college correctly, you are in the minority here. I drove by a couple colleges once.

[dvdguy]

i dont wanna grow up

[sheepsnot]

Did your wife tell you you had to? As long as you pay your own way and be good to folks, don't bother with the whole growing up thing. Overrated.

[dvdguy]

SWEEEEEET!

[Ervserver]

ok then me too...not growing up starting today


:???:

[HolyNight7]

I'm with you Sheeps. I never been to college.

[AuntieMistletoeDear]

...... nothing happened in my dorm, that i recall, of a xmas nature.


xo


no doubt ! 8-)

:lol: :lol: :P :lol: :lol:

What more can I say.

[HolyNight7]

Glad you clarified. :-D

[mrshfromjersey]

Back in 1984 when I was away at nursing school, I ended up going home early because I had gotten myself so sick (too much studying, not enough sleep???? NO COMMENT!) I had mono...oh yes....mono. I had no voice because I had such badly swollen glands in my throat that they were damaging my vocal chords. My brothers said it was the quietest Christmas ever. I was so bad that the doctor wanted to put me in the hospital 2 days before Christmas. I cried and squeeked out that I wanted to be home for Christmas. He let me stay home as long as I went in the day after Christmas. So, I spent the week after Christmas in an isolation room at the hospital. Worst Christmas and New Years Eve EVER!!!!!!!!!

[dvdguy]

fun

[sheepsnot]

I'm with you Sheeps. I never been to college. I was just running my mouth. I have two degrees and still work in a warehouse. What can I say? I like blue collar work.

[Ervserver]

a degree is just a piece of paper. Look at Bill Gates...didn't he drop out of pre-school or sumthin?

[sheepsnot]

Well, it's a piece of paper that hopefully represents years of concentrated study so as to make the bearer considerably more qualified than he was before. It's not useless, despite the useless folks who have them. I'm not even sure where my pieces of paper are. I have never displayed them.

[MarthaK]

I went home for Christmas.

[elfworks]

...... nothing happened in my dorm, that i recall, of a xmas nature.


xo


no doubt ! 8-)

:lol: :lol: :P :lol: :lol:

What more can I say.



did i say something funny?????


xo

[Ervserver]

I'm not laffin...who is laffin? Sheep you laffin?

[sheepsnot]

:sad: :sad: :sad: :sad: :( :( :( :-( :x :x :sad:

[elfworks]

WHAT???!!!!

XO

[dvdguy]

didnt einstein flunk classes

[Ervserver]

exactly....so he only ended up publishing papers on special relativity, Brownian motion, and the photoelectric effects. This is what happens when you don't pay attention in school.

[sheepsnot]

I published a paper on the worldwide effects of sheepsnot economics. I published it in the Weekly Reader. They had all the copies returned for some reason.

[mrshfromjersey]

I love BROWNIES IN MOTION....

[dvdguy]

just prejudice I guess

[sheepsnot]

Mmmmmmmm, brownies in motion!

[dvdguy]

brownies dance?

[sheepsnot]

If you buy enough cookies!

[mrshfromjersey]

NOOOO....brownies...eggs, flour, sugar and CHOCOLATE all mixed together and baked. Mmmmmm brownies....

[dvdguy]

when do they dance?

[sheepsnot]

After you close the door.

[dvdguy]

gotta set up the camera

[HolyNight7]

Oh! :( Well I haven't been to college. Actually I really would like to get some kind of degree someday.

[sheepsnot]

It is best to do it when it means something to you and you're not escaping the folks or wasting grant money.

[HolyNight7]

I think the only thing that would ever mean anything to me is music.

[Ervserver]

I'd like to be a pastry chef

[HolyNight7]

So why don't you become a pastry chef?

[Ervserver]

too old and too late

[HolyNight7]

Yea I know what you mean.

[Christy Carol]

While I don't dislike what I do (not real crazy about who I work for) I feel like there is something else I want to be doing but I'm not sure what. I hate being cooped up in an office, I do know that for sure.

[dominick]

I have grass-is-always-greener syndrome. No matter what I do to change things or what direction I steer myself, I always end up wanting something different.

[sheepsnot]

It can't be too late unless you're dead. I've heard of ladies becoming doctors in their 70s and practising for the rest of their lives. Even if you only have 20 good working years left in you, that's 20 years! A lifetime to caseydbell and to my son, and half a lifetime to me. Go for it, I say.

[Ervserver]

well I think I'll start by eating some pastry

[marekkane]

As someone who just finished four years of getting her university degree, I'd say that paper is worth quite a lot to myself. ;)

Celebrating Christmas in university was fun, I got to decorate my own place and have friends over. Unfortunately my exams usually weren't done until the 22nd of December, so then I got to go home to my mum's house, which was always nicely decorated. I missed helping her set up, but it was still wonderful to be there. Now that I'm in Europe and they're in Canada...Christmas will be a little harder. C'est la vie, there's always skype that I can have on to participate in the family time.

[Ervserver]

Dec 22nd seems awful late

[maurakl]

I put some small colored lights in my dorm room window and I listened to my John Denver and the Muppets tape that was recorded from my sister's record album. I also made hot chocolate and put peppermint candy canes in it! Yum! Those were nice times :) I have a daughter in college now and she isn't into Christmas decorating like I am or like my other daughter that is still home with me. So, she won't be decorating her room at school, but we will have the house here decorated around Thanksgiving!

Maura

[ReineV]

As someone who just finished four years of getting her university degree, I'd say that paper is worth quite a lot to myself. ;)



I don't know how much my degree is worth yet since I don't graduate until December...but I'll let you all know next year! In a lot of cases it does pay off...with a lot of my family it did. I think I'm the only one in my immediate family without specific goals. My dad wanted to become a principal, so he went to school, became a teacher, then a counselor, then a principal and sort of collected more degrees along the way until he became a phD. My mom became a teacher too, but left teaching and decided to open up her own daycare. My oldest sister had been saying she wanted to be a doctor since before she could pronounce it properly (she called it "docker"), so she went to college, then med school, then residency and there she is...a real live doctor. Then my middle sister took after our dad and went for the teaching. I dunno what I'm gonna do with my degree yet.

[Ervserver]

One has to appreciate the work and effort that goes into getting a degree. These days a degree is no guarantee of a good job. I know people with masters degree that work at Wal Mart and factory jobs.