Crappy Times at University High?
Jim and I took a little trip over to the good ol' University of Clifton Construction Cincinnati today and it got me thinking. What if we all get to college, expecting a completely new experience and wanting to leave the academic hell-hole of High School behind, but it ends up being exactly the same? That's the only "fear" I really have about college and it's not even a "fear" really. It's more that I'm going to be pissed off if things turn out that way.
Let me expound upon my thinking here. When I say everything will be the same, what I mean is that college will be like High School. Now I enjoyed High School all right, but I hated a pretty good amount of the people who were in or running it. Ok, hate's a strong word, but people pissed me off. You know who I'm talking about. The administration that felt the need to treat us like kids, though for my entire Senior year, I was legally an adult. The idiots who still made themselves feel important by picking on the "losers", whom they knew would sit and take it. The idiots (usually the same guys)who still wanted to fight you by the flag pole after school if you accidentally bumped shoulders in the hall, rather than saying "Excuse me." like a normal human being. Basically, the kids who would fit the title of jackass and the petty, bullshit rules of the people in charge.
So at this point in my writing, I've been interrupted several times and this entry may or may not be on a ridiculous level of incoherency (I'm far too lazy to check), but I'll sum up what I'm trying to say.
High School sucked somethin' fierce**. College is supposed to be so much better than High School. We are all looking forward to College for this reason. But what if it sucks, just like High School and for the same reasons? Well, then college would suck somethin' fierce as well and we would have been lied to. We'd be the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We'd have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War would be a spiritual war... our Great Depression would be our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'll all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we'd slowly be learning that fact. And we'd be very, very pissed off.
YOU SON OF A BITCH I WILL FUCKING KILL YOU!
**Does that phrase even work there? I've always wanted to use "somethin' fierce", but I could never find the right moment. Was that it?
Let me expound upon my thinking here. When I say everything will be the same, what I mean is that college will be like High School. Now I enjoyed High School all right, but I hated a pretty good amount of the people who were in or running it. Ok, hate's a strong word, but people pissed me off. You know who I'm talking about. The administration that felt the need to treat us like kids, though for my entire Senior year, I was legally an adult. The idiots who still made themselves feel important by picking on the "losers", whom they knew would sit and take it. The idiots (usually the same guys)who still wanted to fight you by the flag pole after school if you accidentally bumped shoulders in the hall, rather than saying "Excuse me." like a normal human being. Basically, the kids who would fit the title of jackass and the petty, bullshit rules of the people in charge.
So at this point in my writing, I've been interrupted several times and this entry may or may not be on a ridiculous level of incoherency (I'm far too lazy to check), but I'll sum up what I'm trying to say.
High School sucked somethin' fierce**. College is supposed to be so much better than High School. We are all looking forward to College for this reason. But what if it sucks, just like High School and for the same reasons? Well, then college would suck somethin' fierce as well and we would have been lied to. We'd be the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We'd have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War would be a spiritual war... our Great Depression would be our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'll all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we'd slowly be learning that fact. And we'd be very, very pissed off.
YOU SON OF A BITCH I WILL FUCKING KILL YOU!
**Does that phrase even work there? I've always wanted to use "somethin' fierce", but I could never find the right moment. Was that it?