This statement is false. I walk up the stairs to campus daily, it never gets easier and i still come up breathing three times as hard as when I started and wishing for an escalator. Besides this though, I suppose it's true (:
Well, summer semester has ended and I can truthfully tell you that I really just don't like school. Which is odd, because I desperately love to learn. I hate the methods surrounding that learning I guess. The ideal learning environment for me would be doing I guess. Traveling for history, experimenting for science, reading for language and so forth. I'm sure this is the true for many others. What I dislike most about school is the fact that you have to go in order to get anywhere in life. You have to have a degree to be anybody. Lately, all I've wanted is to simply drop out. The things that I've learned and wanted in life don't seem to come from a classroom. Especially when loans and so much money are put into it. Why not spend the money instead on an international trip where I'm sure I could learn much more than I ever could at a prestigious university. While I feel that sitting in a classroom learning useless facts isn't the best for everybody, I'm not ignorant to the fact that schooling is necessary for many aspects in life. Maybe I'm just terrible at school and that's why I don't like it? I'll get better. That being said. I do like school in my own ways. I like having purpose that classes give, I like discussions, I like being a part of the mass of people walking towards campus, I like being able to relate to the fellow peer sitting a table over from me at the library who has been there for 6 hours, I like forming relationships with interesting professors, I like understanding ideas and then wanting the whole world to learn what I have just realized, and so forth. Weird.
Anyway, I feel like my posts have been depressing lately. You can call me Negative Nelly today I guess. That will change though. My upcoming post will include my short break and family. Get excited. Because it was relaxing and much needed and fun and just lovely.
Well, summer semester has ended and I can truthfully tell you that I really just don't like school. Which is odd, because I desperately love to learn. I hate the methods surrounding that learning I guess. The ideal learning environment for me would be doing I guess. Traveling for history, experimenting for science, reading for language and so forth. I'm sure this is the true for many others. What I dislike most about school is the fact that you have to go in order to get anywhere in life. You have to have a degree to be anybody. Lately, all I've wanted is to simply drop out. The things that I've learned and wanted in life don't seem to come from a classroom. Especially when loans and so much money are put into it. Why not spend the money instead on an international trip where I'm sure I could learn much more than I ever could at a prestigious university. While I feel that sitting in a classroom learning useless facts isn't the best for everybody, I'm not ignorant to the fact that schooling is necessary for many aspects in life. Maybe I'm just terrible at school and that's why I don't like it? I'll get better. That being said. I do like school in my own ways. I like having purpose that classes give, I like discussions, I like being a part of the mass of people walking towards campus, I like being able to relate to the fellow peer sitting a table over from me at the library who has been there for 6 hours, I like forming relationships with interesting professors, I like understanding ideas and then wanting the whole world to learn what I have just realized, and so forth. Weird.
Anyway, I feel like my posts have been depressing lately. You can call me Negative Nelly today I guess. That will change though. My upcoming post will include my short break and family. Get excited. Because it was relaxing and much needed and fun and just lovely.
