What does college mean to me? I guess I could rewrite my essay from freshman year when they asked me what high school meant to me. "Well, it's a great opportunity for a higher form of learning where I'll have more room to grow as an individual". While that is the cookie cutter B+ answer that's expected of me it's simply not how I feel anymore. Don't get me wrong, I'm grateful for the opportunity but for me college means I don't have to give those silly girl next door answers anymore. This place means freedom, freedom from my parents, a dress code, and all those other rules that I never really understood. I can be myself here, college is where I don't need anyone's approval, college is where I can speak my mind, college is where I'll wish I am when I'm 40 with three kids and a white picket fence. Everyone says these are the best years of our lives so who am I to disagree? Yes, school does come first but my own happiness is second to none. Academically that was a contradiction but I'm happy with the previous sentence so that's how it will stay. I hope that clears up any confusion about my priorities. I agree that getting good grades here is very important but I will say what I want to say here, I will stay true to myself. So here I am, with happiness and academics on an almost level playing field so where does my social life come in? I'd like to sit here and write about how it's all business in this dorm but unfortunately this is the real world and book worms don't grow on trees. I have a life, and i intend on keeping that life through hell and high water. This may make me sound ignorant but I've never met a soul who's had it all. Social acceptance happiness and good grades? It just doesn't happen and if you meet someone who says they have all those things in spades, they're lying. I certainly don't know everyone in the world and hey, I could be wrong, there could be such a thing as having it all but that's just too easy for my liking. so what does college mean to me? It's a balancing act, my friends my books and a smile, and I'm not frightened in the least to see which wavers first. That's the fun part after all.
Monday, September 3, 2012
The great escape.
What does college mean to me? I guess I could rewrite my essay from freshman year when they asked me what high school meant to me. "Well, it's a great opportunity for a higher form of learning where I'll have more room to grow as an individual". While that is the cookie cutter B+ answer that's expected of me it's simply not how I feel anymore. Don't get me wrong, I'm grateful for the opportunity but for me college means I don't have to give those silly girl next door answers anymore. This place means freedom, freedom from my parents, a dress code, and all those other rules that I never really understood. I can be myself here, college is where I don't need anyone's approval, college is where I can speak my mind, college is where I'll wish I am when I'm 40 with three kids and a white picket fence. Everyone says these are the best years of our lives so who am I to disagree? Yes, school does come first but my own happiness is second to none. Academically that was a contradiction but I'm happy with the previous sentence so that's how it will stay. I hope that clears up any confusion about my priorities. I agree that getting good grades here is very important but I will say what I want to say here, I will stay true to myself. So here I am, with happiness and academics on an almost level playing field so where does my social life come in? I'd like to sit here and write about how it's all business in this dorm but unfortunately this is the real world and book worms don't grow on trees. I have a life, and i intend on keeping that life through hell and high water. This may make me sound ignorant but I've never met a soul who's had it all. Social acceptance happiness and good grades? It just doesn't happen and if you meet someone who says they have all those things in spades, they're lying. I certainly don't know everyone in the world and hey, I could be wrong, there could be such a thing as having it all but that's just too easy for my liking. so what does college mean to me? It's a balancing act, my friends my books and a smile, and I'm not frightened in the least to see which wavers first. That's the fun part after all.
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