Mark Hoppus allegedly wrote this song in about ten minutes after watching Can’t Hardly Wait while feeling home-sick on Valentine’s Day, 1999. He began to think about the pain of high school love and parting ways come graduation. Mark is the only Blink-182 member to go to college, as he wanted to be an English teacher. However, his college days didn’t last long because he found the classes to be tedious and useless. In a program for one of Blink’s tours around the time of Enema’s release, Tom left a brief annotation for each track.

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