What I love about academia, what really makes me revel in this whole blissful college kid thing despite the fact that I’m going to be twenty two in a week and I’m really ready to graduate any time now, what really bakes my cake as far as university is concerned: the vacations. Seriously, I dig the whole full time employment thing (the really phenomenal dearth of positions available for web developers being the deciding factor in my return to NYU about a year ago), and I’m sure I’ll continue to dig it when I’ve done the cap and gown thing once and for all, but casual Fridays have nothing on college vacations. I can fully enjoy drinking a pot of coffee after midnight and playing Silent Hill 2 until the sun comes up (and I do fully enjoy it) for an entire month. No piddling allocation of “personal days” when exams are over and MLK day is still a week away. Hooray for education!