If today's missing out students are missing out on life events, this is what they would be missing if they were me
Results Day - 4 in total, my first A Level one was a pretty shit day, my second was better but as I was resitting, I didn't really have any mates left to share it with
18th Birthday - can't remember if I had a party or went out, possibly went down the pub with my mates, completely unmemorable
Freshers Week - a complete and utter drunken shit fest full of knobheads I never wanted to meet again. I made my lifelong Uni mates much later in the Academic Year
Graduation - didn't even know I'd graduated until the evening after when I was informed by a friend that they read my name out and after that point my degree couldn't legally be taken back
Those life events? If they were me, they missed nothing