Shout Out to LC 2014 Homecoming..

I have been out of college for about three years now, some days it feels like I have been out for two days and other days it feels like I have been out for ten years.

When you graduate college you feel as if life will never be the same and for the most part that is true. You think you will never see your college buddies again, you won't ever get to drink a beer at three in the afternoon, playing hooky won't mean the same thing, you won't be up late either pulling all nighters in the library, chugging redbull or at a club lax formal, chugging red bull, walking through the dell won't ever be the same, being hungover in the dinning hall won't be as awesome as it was in college..there are so many things that you can no longer do and it's one of the most heart breaking realizations that I have ever had..even to this day.

While all of that is extremely sad the worst part is that - you move on. After several months out of college most of your friends have gotten jobs, have hopefully moved out of their parents house, are now paying bills and student loans, and are pretty miserable in the real world.

This is also the year that you are STOKED to go back for Homecoming..you've been out for a few months but you cannot wait to get back on campus and start drinking immediately. You figure out where everyone is staying and when everyone is going to get there. As soon as you are back on campus..you either immediately head to someone's house and start crushing some cold ones or you all pile into cars and immediately head to Big Licks - Lynchburg's finest! From this point on you catch up, you drink, you reminisce, you drink some more, you probably play a few drinking games, you do at least one stupid thing, you drink some more, you do at least one thing that you regret, and drink some more, you listen to all the songs that were popular while you were in school and all the songs that bring back all the memories and you drink some more. Before you know it, it is Sunday afternoon and you are heading back home with the strangest and most horrendous hangover. You blink and you are back at your office Monday morning. The worst.

The second Homecoming rolls around, you probably have a little bit more in savings, you maybe have switched to a new job, maybe you even opened up a 401K. At this point you are a little bit more responsible and when Homecoming rolls around you think about skipping it because "you don't live that life anymore", but you decide to go anyway. Yeah you can still party like you used to. So you call up your friends and see who is going, who you can carpool with, and who is being totally lame and skipping it. This time when you get to campus you hardly recognize any faces, everyone looks like babies, there are new things on campus, and it looks like you never went to school there. Regardless you crack a beer and start drinking. This time it seems like you get drunk a lot faster, the kids are drinking much longer and larger quantities than you, you are ready for bed around 11pm instead of 1am, the music they are playing is too loud, and you see far too many people hooking up. You wake up bright and early Sunday morning ready to hit the road back home. You hug your friends goodbye saying Can't wait to see you again, same time next year?? knowing very well you will never ever be returning again.



Before you know round three is here and you didn't even pick up the phone to call your old roommates to see if they were going back. It's sad, unbelievably sad but it is the cold hard truth.It's okay though, cause even though you don't have this burning desire to return to your alma mater and drink your face off you know deep down you love your school, support your school, and you are proud to be hornet.

Cheers to LC Homecoming 2014...