Becoming a bum after being accepted?

[Pablo94]

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Anyone else doing literally nothing until school starts and feels guilty about it?

 

[NotASerialKiller]

Why feel guilty? Getting an acceptance means you're done volunteering with blind orphans forever

 

[libertyyne]

Anyone else doing literally nothing until school starts and feels guilty about it?

Just don't tell my boss.

 

[Astra]

Anyone else doing literally nothing until school starts and feels guilty about it?

No guilt here. I'm so glad I took this gap year. I feel so refreshed and I haven't even traveled yet

 

[Holmwood]

You're exhausted, lol. This whole process is draining for all of us, No problem. Rest for a bit.

I'm learning klingon.

 

[wanderingorion]

Just don't tell my boss.

+1

 

[Dream_big]

Nope, the next ~7 months are going to be AWESOME

 

[studentdocftw]

Rest up, you have a minimum of 7 years ahead of you. Doing nothing is what you should be doing.

 

[JustDoingMe]

I felt great about blowing off classes until I got deffered at a top choice :/ now I'm gonna have to update them with my mediocre grades (As and Bs, nothing terrible but not great).

 

[Dagrimsta1]

Personally I'm bored as F. At least when I was in college I felt as if I was achieving something. Now I'm just plain bored...

 

[Lannister]

Do not feel guilty about it. Once school starts, you'll wish you could be a bum and just binge watch Netflix all day.

 

[efle]

Personally I'm bored as F

This. Working a job where you spend half your time on SDN and reddit, with free evenings and weekends, sounds great. And it is at first. And then after a few months you start to crave going back to school.

 

[JB50]

I hate going to work now lolololololololololololol. I clean up poop though. I also feel very unfulfilled just because I know what is awaiting me in the next chunk of life.

 

[Pablo94]

Bro stop picking up poop lol

 

[JB50]

Bro stop picking up poop lol

It tastes so good though pabro

 

[Theseus]

From someone who started M1 this year, ENJOY the time you have left and don't feel guilty about it. Trust me on this when I say it. I sincerely mean it.

 

[SwordOfTheMorning]

I'm seriously loving the bum life. Just hanging out with friends, playing video games again and just everything else. Work still sucks though. I work with high school students who can be the worst a lot of the time. But other than that it's been chilling.

 

[aalamruad]

Bummed super hard for a month or two and it was awesome at first, but I started feeling kind of unhealthy/stagnant, mentally rusty, and generally unfulfilled after a while. Picked up a pretty rigorous independent research project I'm really passionate about and am much happier now.

I think there's something to be said for maintaining a consistent balance of hard work and leisure, rather than just months of really hard work with short periods of laziness and relaxation sporadically thrown in.