This absolutely blows my freaking mind....
I just got done talking to Skyler about people that we hung out with freshman year. This is pre-Sigma Kappa days! They were people that she actually went to high school with. I guess this is all irrelevant because the point is that I can't believe how things turn out. I guess life in general just puzzles me.
One of the people in our "clique" was a guy named Brad. Brad is a VERY intelligent guy! I mean the kid is so very smart! I can't stress this enough. Well in any event...Brad and I have something in common. We both don't like to go to school and are lazy. Ok...thats two things...but you get the point. Well Brad came to UF for engineering. I think his major was Industrial Engineering to be exact. Well his laziness and lack of motivation got the best of him because he withdrew from school. I am completely shocked! This ridiculously smart guy dropped out of school for good. And what is he doing now? Working at the ghetto Walmart in Gainesville full-time. My mind just isn't accepting this. To further purplex me, he is content too. Brad has the potential to be like a freaking rocket scientist and he is settling for Walmart. I think his future plans are to go to tech school for something but this all makes me very sad. Like I had told Skyler...if you would have told me 3 years ago that Brad was going to drop out of school to work at Walmart, I would have absolutely laughed in your face! If anything I thought that he would be the first to be successful in our little group. If he would have taken school seriously he would be a senior and graduating this Spring. Wow. Just wow. Granted I'm not much better...I SHOULD be graduating this Spring also but...we aren't going to talk about that one. In any event, apparently he's been working full time at Walmart for the past six months now. As Skyler says, "What a waste." I had no clue.
There have been many times that I've wanted to drop out of school. If you told me now that if I dropped out of school I'd have a job where I could make a ridiculous amount of money, I probably would do it. However I know that you have to have a college degree in this day and age to get anywhere, so I will stay. Not to mention the fact that when I went home this weekend my father looked at me seriously straight in the eye and said, "If you don't graduate Lauren it'll kill me." Eeek! Haha! He's so funny because he's like "I know that you need to do this for yourself...but if you don't want to do it for yourself, do it for me."
This is all too ironic that I'm posting about this because just yesterday Matt had a post about college degrees and how the Bacholer's Degree is the new "high school diploma." I see both his and Beth's side on this. Crazyness! Brad completely supports Matt's argument with the fact that some people just don't want to go to college and are more than happy working at places like Walmart but have the potential to do better.
I just want Brad to be happy...and if this does it for him...then good for him!
Any thoughts?
One of the people in our "clique" was a guy named Brad. Brad is a VERY intelligent guy! I mean the kid is so very smart! I can't stress this enough. Well in any event...Brad and I have something in common. We both don't like to go to school and are lazy. Ok...thats two things...but you get the point. Well Brad came to UF for engineering. I think his major was Industrial Engineering to be exact. Well his laziness and lack of motivation got the best of him because he withdrew from school. I am completely shocked! This ridiculously smart guy dropped out of school for good. And what is he doing now? Working at the ghetto Walmart in Gainesville full-time. My mind just isn't accepting this. To further purplex me, he is content too. Brad has the potential to be like a freaking rocket scientist and he is settling for Walmart. I think his future plans are to go to tech school for something but this all makes me very sad. Like I had told Skyler...if you would have told me 3 years ago that Brad was going to drop out of school to work at Walmart, I would have absolutely laughed in your face! If anything I thought that he would be the first to be successful in our little group. If he would have taken school seriously he would be a senior and graduating this Spring. Wow. Just wow. Granted I'm not much better...I SHOULD be graduating this Spring also but...we aren't going to talk about that one. In any event, apparently he's been working full time at Walmart for the past six months now. As Skyler says, "What a waste." I had no clue.
There have been many times that I've wanted to drop out of school. If you told me now that if I dropped out of school I'd have a job where I could make a ridiculous amount of money, I probably would do it. However I know that you have to have a college degree in this day and age to get anywhere, so I will stay. Not to mention the fact that when I went home this weekend my father looked at me seriously straight in the eye and said, "If you don't graduate Lauren it'll kill me." Eeek! Haha! He's so funny because he's like "I know that you need to do this for yourself...but if you don't want to do it for yourself, do it for me."
This is all too ironic that I'm posting about this because just yesterday Matt had a post about college degrees and how the Bacholer's Degree is the new "high school diploma." I see both his and Beth's side on this. Crazyness! Brad completely supports Matt's argument with the fact that some people just don't want to go to college and are more than happy working at places like Walmart but have the potential to do better.
I just want Brad to be happy...and if this does it for him...then good for him!
Any thoughts?