by kilroy » Wed Jul 14, 2004 5:46 pm
why do i get the feeling that most of the answers to these recent poll questions are being sold by some shady marketing corporation?
anyway, i just finished my first year at the university after i took a year off between high school and college.
what higher education is pretty much depends on who is taking part in it, but like buzz says, most people just dont belong, and most companies look at a degree as a given, almost like a high school degree was not too long ago. theres a few different archetypes of college students:
the people who go there to party - the hardcore ones usually end up dropping out and getting an apartment just off campus to continue partying it up until at least their early 30's. to quote a friend of a friend, "man i love living by a college. i get older, but the chicks stay the same age!"
the people who go their to get a degree - they believe the only way that they can get a 'good' job is to get a degree, so they major in something that somebody told them there is money in and do all the requisite work to make their gpa as high as they can to impress potential employers. all they're interested in is the piece of paper at the end of the trail. from what i see, most of these guys end up in jobs they hate, paying off college loans very slowly because there wasnt as much money in it as they were led to believe. or laid off because their jobs were outsourced to india.
and then there's the people who go to actually learn stuff - getting good grades come naturally because they are mastering the material. professors are good and well, but in the end just another resource to be used. there are lots of resources more readily available for use in college than i would otherwise have access to, so it makes things really easy when i actually feel like learning something.
of course, there is some overlap in the categories.
when they ask how you feeling
you tell em you feeling like something important died screaming
you tell em you feeling like something even more important arrived breathing
something you should probably try feeding