growing up != no fun - by nancy - general zuo's chicken

earlier this week i took a group of admitted seventeen eighteen year old college students to eat lunch and it struck me how old i felt. how dinosaur i was next to them. seeing the popular kids gravitate together, find common ground in shared cities and majors, observing their not-so-casual flirting... is this what parenting is like? it's the last few weeks of college now. feeling like a wrinkly prune among the newest harvest of prospective students is a telling sign of my concluding time here it's been 5 years but these 5 years are like night and day. i've made lists and lists of what i wished i've done while here. lists and lists of unaccomplished dreams, unfulfilled tasks. in these last few weeks, i squander every moment to cross those off. my eyes flitter through every bulletin board for unfulfilled missions, fill my evenings with student shows and free entertainment events. it's weird that it's only at the finish line do you realize what you missed in the journey. i think about wha

earlier this week i took a group of admitted seventeen eighteen year old college students to eat lunch and it struck me how old i felt. how dinosaur i was next to them. seeing the popular kids gravitate together, find common ground in shared cities and majors, observing their not-so-casual flirting... is this what parenting is like? it's the last few weeks of college now. feeling like a wrinkly prune among the newest harvest of prospective students is a telling sign of my concluding time here it's been 5 years but these 5 years are like night and day. i've made lists and lists of what i wished