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[knockout_nate]

I can't do this. This is too big and too much to ask of me. Why must I conform to what has become socially acceptable? I once read an article by a philosopher that shall remain nameless. He spoke of the evils of higher education and how it is over-rated and I am beginning to believe him. Not that it's a bad thing, but I have been on the campus

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[franketta]

I know exactly how you feel. My freshman year here was awful, I never got to leave campus...campus was my whole entire life. Now that is lame. Once I got my car here though everything changed. I get off campus all the time, such as friday night I went to Rhode Island to see a show. Sure during the week I'm usually around on campus, but I make sure to get out into the real world once in awhile...

Part of the college experience is living in a college town...which can totally suck, but the best thing is to make the most of it that you can. You aren't that far that you can always drive up to Portland or something to just hang out.

You only have what? two years? that's not too bad.

that is all I have to say.

oh yea, I need you to explain your whole RA business to me, cause it sounds to me like you guys got a shitty deal...you explain yours and then i can tell you how wonderful ours is. hah!

[quass_debonair]

This is my first day of classes here at OIT, and frankly I think this place is paradise. The clear skies of Klamath Falls are greatly preferable to the gloomy overcast of Portland, and relaxing in my dorm with my room mate is better than sitting tensely in my room at home with my mom yelling at me down the hall. I admit I have yet to see the serious side of it all, but I have to say I don't miss my old life the least. Believe it or not, I'm getting around more than I did back at home as well - I went bowling with my fellow nerds on Saturday, followed spontaneously by attending the dance in the quad.
Well, gotta eat and run, maybe I'll post something a little less sullen than usual in my Livejournal when I have the time.

[unagi28]

Let me impart some wisdom that my friend gave me at the end of last year. She was (or is) quite possibly the smartest person I have ever known and brought up some points relevant to your post in her graduation speech (she was the class speaker).

She said that as she prepared to leave college, she kept hearing people talk about how she would now enter the "real world". But this phrase concluded that her four years in college were a sheltered limbo in which she was immune to real problems, real choices, and real experiences. This isn't true at all. College IS the real world. We are faced with difficult decisions, pressure, financial burden, celebration, and failure.

You may consider yourself to be in a specific social bubble...I certainly am here in Claremont, but don't brush it off as a fake experience of life. Every day is real and this college experience isn't necessarily a preparation to launch you off into some alternate dimension where people suddenly have "real" issues to deal with.