Yes, I said it, and I'll say it again- I am sick of college...and I haven't even applied yet.Let me explain myself, before the CAC office comes to rip my hands away from the keyboard. :P
I understand that college is important- oh, it's VERY important. Don't get me wrong there.
However, what irks me more than anything is that the conversational topic of "college" and "standardized tests" seems to edge its way into every single conversation I have. It is frustrating to have a set of parents who view me as a prospective college student, and only as that. Do they know me as a person? Probably not.
We've lost our individuality. Thus, do to our culture, everything one does just needs to be filed under one aspect of the college application process.
"Oh, you got StudCo president? Damn, you're set for college!"
No! Don't you see what we've become? How a 36 on an ACT or a 2300 on the SAT can excite the masses more than anything else? How we continuously compare ourselves to each other, when, in reality, we're all going to be just fine in the end?
I want to relax, do what I love and do it well. I want fun. I'm sick of people worrying and I'm sick of people comparing. This institution was built on the idea of getting away from the standards- unfortunately, a love for learning can't be fostered in an environment where pure grades are the number 1 priority, followed by a long list of extracurriculars that one doesn't really care about.
I want to stop talking about SATs and ACTs. Dad, don't address every single one of my friends with the college interrogation. I want to talk about life, interests, and personal, real things. Let's take PrepHQ off as our homepages. Let's realize that there are many more colleges than the top 20 of U.S. News' list. Yes, we need to work hard, yes, we need do well. But we don't need to center our very lives around it.
Take a step outside, lay down on the cement, and let the sun carry you away from this world that we've created for ourselves.
2 comments:
Amen.
Even as a sophomore, people are telling me what organizations I should join, what classes I should take, what mentorships/summer programs I should do to get into college. I don't want to do that stuff. I just want to be me.
but in our society we can't be successful or influential without a college education and a good college education at that. no one will take you seriously if you've claimed to have spent the last four years of your life sleeping and sexing and reading some things you liked. while it can be debated that once you get out of college, this cycle will continue (working for something to get you higher that actually doesn't), i don't think it will. once you can prove you have accomplished something (and being "silly high schoolers" i can honestly say they won't think we have because we HAVEN'T. up until now, have we really done anything for the greater good?) then you can try to change the world however you'd like, but until we 'pay our dues' so to speak we HAVE to go along for this. personally, i'd sacrifice temporary i-feel-like-shit-all-the-damn-time-and- have-a-one-track-mind for the ability to do something special when i'm an adult.
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