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Oh I love that anonymous LJ thing! I wish I could just keep reposting it, and let the comments keep flying!
Any who, College is crazy. The classes aren't exactly hard (yet) and that kind of scares me. No, why college is crazy is, well, frankly, i was so totally unprepared for it. High School, I must say, did a shit job of getting us prepped and ready for college. It wasn't the teachers' faults necessarily, but rather just the school system in general. High School was (unless you were in IB) A cake walk. ESPECIALLY my senior year, when you'd think that THAT would be the time when they would really try to get on you and get your mind set on college. But unfortunately, the exact opposite happened, for me anyway. I went to class about 3 times a week, on a good week. There honestly wasn't a point for me to even be there. It's just what the school system has evolved into. By the time you get to your senior year, and have everything accomplished that you need to graduate, it's basically a place you go to to be babysat until you finally graduate.
Everyone I've spoken to up here evidentially had it even easier than us! They literally didn't even do work. They could talk their teachers into giving them an A. Hell, A's were handed out as if it was a going away present for them going to college. The school system is defiantly deteriorating.
Once you finally get here, you gain all this freedom, and responsibility, yadda yadda yadda. That was to be expected. Although, you still can't prepare for that totally. You must experience it first hand. Really, college hasn't been to bad. I like it up here a lot, and it's nice that I can still come home if need be. What makes it difficult is...well, let me take you back. To whenever the start of your senior year was. From there on, there is this illusion that you are the "it" class. You are taking charge. You sort of "run the school" so to speak. Your entire senior year, you feel is your last time to do anything and everything you want with your friends. You try to get out there and see/do everything, but I'm afraid there simply just not enough hours in the day. first comes Homecoming, then the Holidays. Snowball, Prom, and finally Graduation.
G-Day comes so fast that your still wondering what all you're going to do as a senior, and it's time for you to walk up, grab your diploma, and step aside for th e next class. You're built up like you are our future. but after the summer, you feel almost forgotten. Everyone you were friends with, unless you were fortunate enough to attend the same school as them, and live in the same dorm, is moving on, because there is this overwhelming feeling once you get here that you need to move on, and fast, for now you have this huge deficit of friendship in your life, and you so now you need to hurry along and make new ones. You lose everyone from the class below you, because now they are having their senior year. So really, it's a brand new start. That's bad, and good. Bad for the reasons I just mentioned, but good for the fact that it's among the most liberating feelings out there. All that stuff you did back in high school that you simply just didn't want to remember. All that drama. All that, well, being a kid, is dashed away. There are of course parties up here. People wanting to exploit their new found freedom, but those die out the older you get, and the harder your classes get. Sadly, College is really coming to terms with the fact that you're no longer protected from the real world. You have to embrace it. Am I saying anything new to you? probably not. But I bet you still don't fully grasp the magnitude of what college really is. I bet I don't either
Any who, College is crazy. The classes aren't exactly hard (yet) and that kind of scares me. No, why college is crazy is, well, frankly, i was so totally unprepared for it. High School, I must say, did a shit job of getting us prepped and ready for college. It wasn't the teachers' faults necessarily, but rather just the school system in general. High School was (unless you were in IB) A cake walk. ESPECIALLY my senior year, when you'd think that THAT would be the time when they would really try to get on you and get your mind set on college. But unfortunately, the exact opposite happened, for me anyway. I went to class about 3 times a week, on a good week. There honestly wasn't a point for me to even be there. It's just what the school system has evolved into. By the time you get to your senior year, and have everything accomplished that you need to graduate, it's basically a place you go to to be babysat until you finally graduate.
Everyone I've spoken to up here evidentially had it even easier than us! They literally didn't even do work. They could talk their teachers into giving them an A. Hell, A's were handed out as if it was a going away present for them going to college. The school system is defiantly deteriorating.
Once you finally get here, you gain all this freedom, and responsibility, yadda yadda yadda. That was to be expected. Although, you still can't prepare for that totally. You must experience it first hand. Really, college hasn't been to bad. I like it up here a lot, and it's nice that I can still come home if need be. What makes it difficult is...well, let me take you back. To whenever the start of your senior year was. From there on, there is this illusion that you are the "it" class. You are taking charge. You sort of "run the school" so to speak. Your entire senior year, you feel is your last time to do anything and everything you want with your friends. You try to get out there and see/do everything, but I'm afraid there simply just not enough hours in the day. first comes Homecoming, then the Holidays. Snowball, Prom, and finally Graduation.
G-Day comes so fast that your still wondering what all you're going to do as a senior, and it's time for you to walk up, grab your diploma, and step aside for th e next class. You're built up like you are our future. but after the summer, you feel almost forgotten. Everyone you were friends with, unless you were fortunate enough to attend the same school as them, and live in the same dorm, is moving on, because there is this overwhelming feeling once you get here that you need to move on, and fast, for now you have this huge deficit of friendship in your life, and you so now you need to hurry along and make new ones. You lose everyone from the class below you, because now they are having their senior year. So really, it's a brand new start. That's bad, and good. Bad for the reasons I just mentioned, but good for the fact that it's among the most liberating feelings out there. All that stuff you did back in high school that you simply just didn't want to remember. All that drama. All that, well, being a kid, is dashed away. There are of course parties up here. People wanting to exploit their new found freedom, but those die out the older you get, and the harder your classes get. Sadly, College is really coming to terms with the fact that you're no longer protected from the real world. You have to embrace it. Am I saying anything new to you? probably not. But I bet you still don't fully grasp the magnitude of what college really is. I bet I don't either