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Ustwo · 03-06-2008, 12:15 PM

Youth is wasted on the young.

I can't claim to have been any better in college, and it wasn't until I graduated that I got something of a wake up call.

Thats not to say I'd be disruptive in class, I'd just miss them, a lot. I suppose that says something for most of my classes. The really difficult ones I'd go to but the average class didn't take that much brain power daily so I'd try to cram it all in at the end.

Sort of ironic that my GPA would have been higher in college if my courses were more difficult for me.

Really few have a real goal while in college, they are just getting their degree, followed by sending off job applications. Pre-med students mostly know what they need to move on so they will be more focused as a rule (I was an exception to that rule) but the average student doesn't have that sort of self inflicted pressure.

This turns college into highschool, where getting laid, going to parties, and socializing trump everything, at every hour of the day.

So at 31, you know what you are there for, what you want to do, why you want to be there. At 19, you know your parents want you to be there, it beats working, it seems like fun, and maybe it will get you a job thingy for a lot of money when you are done.

Of course if someone would have told me that then I'd have denied it, I was there for an education and maybe other kids were like that but not me, hell I was acing most of my exams why go to class?

Then again it did all work out, so maybe I wasn't so dumb.

03-06-2008, 12:15 PM	#10 (permalink)
Ustwo Pissing in the cornflakes	Youth is wasted on the young. I can't claim to have been any better in college, and it wasn't until I graduated that I got something of a wake up call. Thats not to say I'd be disruptive in class, I'd just miss them, a lot. I suppose that says something for most of my classes. The really difficult ones I'd go to but the average class didn't take that much brain power daily so I'd try to cram it all in at the end. Sort of ironic that my GPA would have been higher in college if my courses were more difficult for me. Really few have a real goal while in college, they are just getting their degree, followed by sending off job applications. Pre-med students mostly know what they need to move on so they will be more focused as a rule (I was an exception to that rule) but the average student doesn't have that sort of self inflicted pressure. This turns college into highschool, where getting laid, going to parties, and socializing trump everything, at every hour of the day. So at 31, you know what you are there for, what you want to do, why you want to be there. At 19, you know your parents want you to be there, it beats working, it seems like fun, and maybe it will get you a job thingy for a lot of money when you are done. Of course if someone would have told me that then I'd have denied it, I was there for an education and maybe other kids were like that but not me, hell I was acing most of my exams why go to class? Then again it did all work out, so maybe I wasn't so dumb. __________________ Agents of the enemies who hold office in our own government, who attempt to eliminate our "freedoms" and our "right to know" are posting among us, I fear.....on this very forum. - host Obama - Know a Man by the friends he keeps.