Part of me feels like college is a ripoff.
I spend many thousands of dollars a year (some paid for by scholarship and loan) in order to do homework and write papers. Eventually, this money will culminate in a piece of paper signed by some deans that says I have written some papers and taken some tests.
The dorm is overpriced for the size of the room, and the quality of the provision, the food is EXPENSIVE and crappy, but at least the library and the school buildings are adequate.
At the same time, I realize that I am paying less that the average lower class income (somewhere around $27k a year) in order to be free of a job. Now sure, I have to work a little to be able to afford that, but while in college, I am provided for in every basic way, plus LOTS of unnecessary treats like internet and TV.
Plenty people who earn and pay that same wage do not live like I do.
So, while I love to complain, college really is a bubble of complacency, with a lot of hard work involved. And I do believe that every college, not just small private Christian schools, is a bubble which the students rarely ever leave.
I wonder if there's anyone who spent his entire life at college for just that reason.
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So, this is the blog of Brett. I used to write on my Myspace and I still use my Facebook all the time to tell people what's going on in my life, but I suppose true blogging isn't about what's happening in your life, it's about your reaction to it and what it inspires you to think. Not to say that this is my journal. It's where I drop my brain off at the end of the day.
3 comments:
wouldn't Professor Whitmore count as someone who has spent his entire life at college?
And look how happy he is! lol
If you watch Sydney White there's a guy who stays at college several years past graduation. Not quite his whole life though.
I think that college is a bit of a crock at least in the U.S. Partially because you have to have that little piece of paper saying you wrote those papers and took those tests just to get a half-way decent job. However, it is also an awesome opportunity that over half the world never gets to experience. An undergraduate degree may be pretty passe around here, but it's a huge deal no matter how you slice it.
too bad he didn't spend his entire college experience here... it would be even better if he had been born on campus...
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