I'd go back in a heartbeat

[This is a transplant from my Myspace blog which I'm in the process of deleting...]

I've recently connected and reconnected with a few people from high school and college. What an amazing experience it is to touch base with those I knew 'back when' (and those who knew me)! Since doing so (and even before) I've thought a lot about the past and how much I miss some of the 'old days'. Gone are the days of shit disturbing in the dorms...harmless thievery, midnight football in the snow, midnight breakfast, 7-11 runs, ice cream to mend a broken heart, third floor whores, my RA buddies etc. I've said several times to my students that I'd go back to college in a heartbeat but I guess that's not entirely true...I want us ALL to go back. I want to walk out of my room to instantly greet 40 friends, to dodge Jerry's silly innuendos while on rounds, to put off writing papers and go out because that's all we have to worry about. A very good friend of mine from college recently found me and directed me to a song that he thinks expresses how we both feel about college...I agree. Thanks Yoshi. Thank God for old friends.

Avenue Q Soundtrack Lyrics

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Artist: Lyrics
Song: I Wish I Could Go Back to College Lyrics

KATE MONSTER:
I wish I could go back to college.
Life was so simple back then.

NICKY:
What would I give to go back and live in a dorm with a meal plan again!

PRINCETON:
I wish I could go back to college.
In college you know who you are.
You sit in the quad, and think, "Oh my God!
I am totally gonna go far!"

ALL:
How do I go back to college?
I don't know who I am anymore!

PRINCETON:
I wanna go back to my room and find a message in dry-erase pen on the door!
Ohhh...
I wish I could just drop a class...

NICKY:
Or get into a play...

KATE MONSTER:
Or change my major...

PRINCETON:
Or fuck my T.A.

ALL:
I need an academic advisor to point the way!
We could be...
Sitting in the computer lab,
4 A.M. before the final paper is due,
Cursing the world 'cause I didn't start sooner,
And seeing the rest of the class there, too!

PRINCETON:
I wish I could go back to college!

ALL:
How do I go back to college?!
AHHHH...

PRINCETON:
I wish I had taken more pictures.

NICKY:
But if I were to go back to college,
Think what a loser I'd be-
I'd walk through the quad,
And think "Oh my God..."

ALL:
"These kids are so much younger than me."