I suppose the purpose of blogs is to express yourself and write about your life, but I really don't see the point in the latter. I suppose I'll just put my impersonal thoughts out there.
I've often felt that college is supposed to be the best time of one's life. I don't know if that's proven true for me. I guess there are certain stereotypical experiences attached to the "ideal college experience". I've experienced most of them, I think, but I don't feel anymore fulfilled. But I guess that was to be expected.
I find myself wanting more than ever to move on to bigger and better things and get out of UF. I feel perpetually jailed on this large campus, and I'm sure people share my sentiment. Or, maybe I've done it to myself. Maybe the trick is taking less classes, relaxing more. Maybe.
I find now more than ever that true friends are hard to come by. Once you're out of the sight of many people you're out of mind as well. I find it hard to believe a lot of people that are friends in college will be friends beyond it. It's all fleeting, just like the rest of a person's life, and that's not meant to be a morbid statement.
In college people are supposed to grow and become adults. A eighteen-year-old being an adult is bullshit. You're not a full-fledged adult until you can support yourself completely independently of your parents. Thus, it follows that most of us are not adults and won't be for a very long time. We like very much to play the game of life and pretend we're in the real world, but the real world must be more miserable and unforgiving than this. This is only the tip of the iceberg.
It is not the end of the world if you get a B or if you don't get into medical school. Or even law school or grad school. Most of us don't understand that. I'm only beginning to.
To me it also seems that college is a complete waste if one doesn't leave it an informed citizen. As this country is a democracy, it is the responsibility of every citizen to be informed about world and domestic events and to care about them. As it is we are turning into Huxley's dystopia. Should we really be this absorbed in our own worlds?
Just some random thoughts with nothing connecting them. Maybe the next one will be more coherent.
1 comment:
I somewhat agree with your thoughts. But in my case, some of my dearest friends are my shcool and college friends. i still catch up with them whenever possible. But nothing works out if we get caught up with our own world. Any relation needs to be nurtured by giving them time.
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