delusional woman, stop your raving
it is of great disfortune that my verbal SAT score denies me qualification from the MDHE scholarship...so I'm taking the ACT June 10th? 2 days after graduation? wtf man. at least I don't have to do the writing section...and that it'll be hella easy...but araghhh this is a warning for juniors; don't bitch about testing, b/c it'll come back to bite you. damn.
but yay for graduation? lisbithia, you must realize that we are not celebrating leaving one another (well...some of us might be more eager than others), but rather the feeling of accomplishment at coming so far, moderately intact. I want to leave not because I don't love Burroughs, but because I love it enough to realize the absolute dependency we all have on that community. even as one by one, we come of legal age, no one actually grows up within its confines (yes, confined) for the reason that it's so safe and so secure and that one can make mistakes repeatedly and never need to learn from them. life stagnates. college will be a complete change in lifestyle, friendships, and experiences...you might say, it's a fulfilling of the American Dream of moving west (or, in my case, about 15 miles east) and beginning anew. and of course you won't lose us. and of course new friendships will have to be formed as well. but...you know a wonderful thing about college? we're all searching for something right now, all of us, for relationships, for success, for acceptance...and it'll be there, not necessarily waiting under a flashing neon sign, but if we each and every one look, we can find it. so much exists of this world, lisbithia (I dictate to you, but of course, this is not to be pointed), for us to explore and conquer! what is that? no, my name is not Alexander...but I am great. in fact, I am absolutely terrific. HA TAKE THAT WORLD.
Seneca once wrote that a wise man "escapes necessity because he wills what necessity is going to force on him." Thus we embrace college. it's a leap into the dark that we're taking not because we have to, but because we chose to and DAMN STRAIGHT we are going to enjoy it. there are times when reading Sedaris and Into the Wild and I think, why am I going to college, I have no idea what I am going to do with my life and besides, hermits don't require college education? it's a costly waste and I'm going to come out after four years with nothing more than another line on my resume. or I think, I could just go somewhere cheap, settle down, become the generic homemaker (=by far one of the LOWEST points of my life). but what a waste of four years of Burroughs and a lifetime of effort and of the hopes that everyone has ever had for me, for us. so it's not just for ourselves, but for our loved ones that we emerge into the world with both altruism and optimism, if lacking in confidence.
basically, this is the most inspirational speech ever and solid proof of how much Harvard grads dominate