Comments | bacchae23: These times are a' changin'...

bacchae23

These times are a' changin'...

Apr 10, 2009 14:48

I think, to a greater or lesser extent, that I can be rather unreliable and flaky. I don't say this as a plea for help (gehck) or a plea for compliments, but simply as an observation...more and more I've slacked some of my silly INTERNETZ responsibilities for the sole reason that, you know what? I've gotten bored. And it's kind of shameful, really ( Read more... )

senioritis, boredom, wangst, college, school

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lazaefair April 11 2009, 15:09:37 UTC

I have bad news for you. The drama, sex, drugs, and immaturity don't stop in college. They in fact get worse since many of the tards around you now (a) live together in close quarters and (b) no longer have any parental supervision.

Good luck.

bacchae23 April 11 2009, 16:24:17 UTC

Damn.

But is it still worth it? Have you enjoyed college better than high school?

lazaefair April 11 2009, 16:44:06 UTC

Oh, without a doubt. See (b).

The freedom is very nice. And colleges are usually large enough that you can avoid the tards and find a good niche of friends. I would say that, even with my mistakes and regrets, college has been an immense improvement. Just don't expect everyone to grow up overnight.

My main advice is to spend the first semester or the first year in the dorms, then move off-campus into an apartment. The dorms will offer a nice transitional period, as well as proximity and ready-made socializing (freshmen tend to huddle as a defense mechanism), and when you're tired of it, you'll be ready to move out on your own and start the track towards true independence. Also, dining halls are nice, but cooking your own food is nicer (and cheaper).

bacchae23 April 12 2009, 15:45:50 UTC

Well, it's good to know that it's not a total wash; I probably shouldn't assume/generalize that college won't be like high school, because to some extent, all the immigrants from high school GO to college.

Your point is well-deserved and wise. I appreciate it.

folion April 12 2009, 15:18:25 UTC

lazefair makes a great point.

Take a bunch of wild and crazy teenagers who are all too happy to graduate and get away from home. These teenagers experience a glorious epiphany in which they realize that they're old enough to legally do certain things. And then the kicker comes. Their parents are nowhere in sight.

ba-bum.

bacchae23 April 12 2009, 15:57:17 UTC

Point.

greencat3 April 12 2009, 17:03:38 UTC

This is, IMO, why everyone should take a gap year. It...resettles things, lets you, as corny as it sounds, know yourself better. I for one know that I am going to appreciate college a HELL of a lot more than some of the rich party kids from my old school who are finishing their freshman year right now, because my brain is beginning to atrophy from lack of learning and I actually want to go back and study until my eyes bug out. But maybe that is my work ethic in the first place - some things, a gap year can't cure. (Like lazy frat party boy-ness.) You don't seem like you'd have the party problem, aside from having a problem with mindless parties. So you will do fine ( ... )

bacchae23 April 12 2009, 18:26:01 UTC

:) It made perfect sense and was perfectly non-rambly. <3 thank you muchly.

I have to commend you, honestly -- you're one of the few people I've met who's really taken a year for a break and known full-well that you're going back to college next year. Some people really can make that work -- like you. Others take the year off as an excuse to get more money and never really come up with it. But I know what you mean. And I see the logic in it perfectly. For some, a break-year really does help them put everything together. I don't think I'm that burned out, but I understand why it'd be necessary.

Gah, RPs...I used to do them, hardcore, and then all the people involved slowly started fading out, and it just...kinda...stopped. Which really made me sad. ;_; It takes a lot of devotion, which I don't think many of us could've kept for so long. Sad face.

I'm going to the University of Nevada, Reno, for journalism, though I'm really thinking of double-majoring in something geeky like geology ( ... )

greencat3 April 12 2009, 19:19:27 UTC

Thanks. I had no choice, really - if I didn't go to college at all, even if I didn't want to, I would have been killed by my family. We take education seriously. I know someone who's done that - she said "oh, next year", and this is her second year waitressing and not even applying to community college. So I'm riding her ass on that. I have another friend who's graduating this year and taking a gap...but I think she's just going to be lazy and watch anime and play video games the whole time, so I'll have to ride her ass about that, too ( ... )

gaiafaye April 13 2009, 02:21:34 UTC

I'm just here to agree that the morons who see college as nothing but an opportunity to thrust themselves full-force into every urge they've ever felt were EXTREMELY ANNOYING. Once sitting in my room I got to listen to a hallway argument between two self-involved eye-rolling nits and an RA who busted them for drinking, in which the drunken girls protested, "OMG, THIS IS WHAT COLLEGE IS FOR." Yes, apparently college really is glorified babysitting.

Being even a semi-responsible adult is evidently too much work omg. :(

But you'll find people you like. lol