here's my answer.starsinreverbNovember 12 2009, 09:14:41 UTC
i do feel like now that i have graduated i live in the "real world."
in college, you have responsibilities that you basically set for yourself. you have your goals, and your major, and your friends, and a job on the side probably as well.
but outside, all of the responsibilities are no longer set by yourself. they are set by life. the world sets them.
college and before wasn't the fake world, it was the comfort world. it was the world of self-discovery.
after college, you can still discover yourself, but it's no longer in the comforting environs of other people doing the same thing. it's the real world.
believe me, they are so, so different. and not in a bad way.
Hold on. Let me preface this by saying that I got a fulltime job after high school. I don't think I'm more or less in touch than anyone else my age.
The first argument up above doesn't make any sense to me at all.
The claim that you essentially pave your own way in college is true. How does that not apply to "the real world" though? You think everyone who goes to college and graduates successfully is suddenly this perfect cog in the machine who has no say in anything anymore? Suddenly the "you made your bed, now sleep in it" mentality doesn't apply? All because you have a piece of paper stating you graduated college?
I'm not trying to be a dick, but that's just a completely bleak and depressing way to think.
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in college, you have responsibilities that you basically set for yourself. you have your goals, and your major, and your friends, and a job on the side probably as well.
but outside, all of the responsibilities are no longer set by yourself. they are set by life. the world sets them.
college and before wasn't the fake world, it was the comfort world. it was the world of self-discovery.
after college, you can still discover yourself, but it's no longer in the comforting environs of other people doing the same thing. it's the real world.
believe me, they are so, so different. and not in a bad way.
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Yes, they are.
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The first argument up above doesn't make any sense to me at all.
The claim that you essentially pave your own way in college is true. How does that not apply to "the real world" though? You think everyone who goes to college and graduates successfully is suddenly this perfect cog in the machine who has no say in anything anymore? Suddenly the "you made your bed, now sleep in it" mentality doesn't apply? All because you have a piece of paper stating you graduated college?
I'm not trying to be a dick, but that's just a completely bleak and depressing way to think.
-steven
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