I Hate College
I started out going to community college before going to the state university in my hometown. While I consider community college a wise route for several reasons I really think senioritis is getting to me.
The crazy thing about the whole senioritis thing is that I never got in when I was in high school. I had several friends that struggled with it and I didn't understand it then but I get it now.
I remember being the popular kid in high school that everyone knew. I enjoyed the interaction with the various friends I had and even sat through 7 graduations because of it. No hard feelings, but once everyone graduated, I grew way apart from 99% of them. That was the worst part. Two different events in May 2007, right before the first anniversary of my graduation caused reality to hit me. Girls soccer lost in the playoff quarterfinals and while they were outplayed top to bottom by who they were playing, I had wanted to see several of the graduates win a state championship. Plus later that week was a field day everything in me wanted to go back for but I couldn't. I didn't realize it at the time, but that was the start of a deep, dark depression for me.
I have a campus ministry that fills in some of the void but I still struggle with loneliness. Now that I'm graduating (and quite a few others are as well), I sense myself heading back to square one.
I need a good neighborhood with people around me agewise that have 'neighborhood events' to be involved with. I swear I look at senior living communities with a sense of "I wish something like this existed with people my age". I wanted this when I was in high school but wanted to graduate wth the folks that I knew through high school. Now that I've done that, it's time to find something new.
I'm now to the point that I can't enjoy anything anymore (with **very rare** exceptions).
I also feel frustrated that colleges make you take calculus and algebra courses that require you to solve equations you'll never use. More emphasis is needed on business skills that the workforce requires for success and not algebra equations you'll never solve after you graduate.
I also feel that they're making you pay for a bunch of campus amenities you have no time to use.
August 4, 2012 can't get here quick enough so I can hopefully have my own media arts business and then be away from all this.
The crazy thing about the whole senioritis thing is that I never got in when I was in high school. I had several friends that struggled with it and I didn't understand it then but I get it now.
I remember being the popular kid in high school that everyone knew. I enjoyed the interaction with the various friends I had and even sat through 7 graduations because of it. No hard feelings, but once everyone graduated, I grew way apart from 99% of them. That was the worst part. Two different events in May 2007, right before the first anniversary of my graduation caused reality to hit me. Girls soccer lost in the playoff quarterfinals and while they were outplayed top to bottom by who they were playing, I had wanted to see several of the graduates win a state championship. Plus later that week was a field day everything in me wanted to go back for but I couldn't. I didn't realize it at the time, but that was the start of a deep, dark depression for me.
I have a campus ministry that fills in some of the void but I still struggle with loneliness. Now that I'm graduating (and quite a few others are as well), I sense myself heading back to square one.
I need a good neighborhood with people around me agewise that have 'neighborhood events' to be involved with. I swear I look at senior living communities with a sense of "I wish something like this existed with people my age". I wanted this when I was in high school but wanted to graduate wth the folks that I knew through high school. Now that I've done that, it's time to find something new.
I'm now to the point that I can't enjoy anything anymore (with **very rare** exceptions).
I also feel frustrated that colleges make you take calculus and algebra courses that require you to solve equations you'll never use. More emphasis is needed on business skills that the workforce requires for success and not algebra equations you'll never solve after you graduate.
I also feel that they're making you pay for a bunch of campus amenities you have no time to use.
August 4, 2012 can't get here quick enough so I can hopefully have my own media arts business and then be away from all this.
By:
gmckdude711
Age:
22-25
,
Male
