Beginnings and endings always reflect the same emotions, the same tribulations, identical losses and gains. The only change is that you have grown from one transition to the next.
All throughout my childhood, college was something to aim for, a target at the end of a field, if you will. College was where I learned how to achieve my goals and make my dreams more attainable. By the end of this summer I will have earned my Associate of Arts degree and transfer to MSU to work on my Bachelor of Science Degree. My love of learning has never been stronger; financial matters seem to make this love impractical, though, and I fear that many students will soon surrender their dreams in favor of more...immeadiate financial gain.
The reality of college is far from the television shows and movies that we see in our youth. It is more studying, with fewer wild nights of partying. You will spend more nights of slurping energy drinks and correcting printer malfunctions than it tending to steamy love affairs. And finally, you will lie awake at night, wondering if what you are doing is worthwhile, if you are suited to this life, and if you will ever graduate and enter into "The Real World."
The truth is, the real world is all around you, even in the little bubble that is a college campus. Your fellow students, such as myself, work full-time or part-time jobs between studying, classes, labs, baby-sitting, chores, and errands. We are adults, all living real lives in the real world. We just happen to be training for a better occupation while doing it.
Anyway, this is it for the moment. Although I am taking this semester off, I am still doing some independent research between shifts at work, my "social calendar", and keeping my ferret and two-year-old niece from hurting each other.
Good eventide,
Melissa.
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