College life? When is it time to give it up? You have been attending a school for the last 4 or 5 years and you identify with that intuition. You graduate and now what? How long is it supposed to take you to withdraw the connection? By withdrawing connection I mean hanging out at the institution and the local bars. I ask this question because when I was still in undergrad I used to see people who had graduated years before still attend dance socials and go to the local bars. My first thought was, are you serious what are you doing back here? I can’t wait to get out and these parties are lame anyway. But now that I am a graduate I feel I connect more with my school and the friends that I have made there. There are local bars that I used to frequent when I was a student and now we use them as reunion spots. But when is enough, enough. When are you supposed to just let go and move on to the adult world? My response would be about a year after you graduate. From personal experience I have notice the more I go to the bars the more the crowd changes. Even though my friends and I meet up there, the same place we used to know all the faces is the same place where we barely know faces. So after about the first year I think the only appropriate return would be to go to sporting events. What do you think? Is a year good? Too long? Too Short?