Author: Autumn
•1/12/2010 01:08:00 PM
Yesterday I was listening to my iPod on shuffle as I drove when this one song came on that I've always liked. It makes me laugh everytime because there are moments in life when this is exactly how I feel (Well, parts of it anyway, not all). And I doubt I'm the only one, so I wanted to share it.

The song is "I Wish I Could Go Back to College" from the musical (big shock, it's a musical) Avenue Q, with music and lyrics by Robert Lopez & Jeff Marx. I embedded the audio below the lyrics if you want to listen to it too. Enjoy!

Warning: There is one line that swears, just so you're prepared.

I wish I could go back to college
Life was so simple back then
What would I give to go back and live in a dorm with a meal plan again

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"

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

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...
Or get into a play...
Or change my major...
Or [@&%#] my T.A.

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

I wish I could go back to college!
How do I go back to college?!
AHHHH...

I wish I had taken more pictures.

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

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1 comments:

On January 12, 2010 at 2:29 PM , Becky said...

I love this song. And to be honest it's sentiments like that that led me to academic librarianship. I love the college atmosphere and at least for a while, I'm more likely to be taken for a student than a faculty member.

And those first few lines of "What do you do with a BA in English?" were my anthem for the 12 months between deciding not to go into politics and deciding on librarianship. :)