Are you sure kid...

My last task of the year for my English 102 class is a five page paper on college tuition. Over the course of constructing this paper alot of thoughts and facts played on my mind. The most important fact I gained from doinig this paper is that, going to college has to be something that you really want to do and once you make the decision to go to college, if you want to be successful you have to be passionate about it. You have to be focused and you have to be really concerned about each and every class as well as each and every grade you make. If not then basically you are setting yourself up for either a very prolonged college career, or failure to even complete college all together. The is a saying that states "college is not for everybody." Through reasearch I have found this statement to be very true. If everyone that graduated from high school went to college and gained a college degree, there would be tooo many certified people and not enough jobs to compensate for thier skills. There would be major competition for jobs and this could have negative effects to buisnesses and society. The value of a college degree lessens with each person that attains one. Therefore those without college degrees are helping the ones with degrees look better. Vice versa, if those people without degrees did have a degree then how special do the people that already had degrees look to a person in a position of power? I wont say that I am the most committed student at USM, but I do care....about MONEY! I would love to get a degree from this school and go off and work for another thirty or forty years earning a set salary with benefits, but I realized the passion for school is not with me at all. I have felt like I have been wasting my time in college for like everyday I have been enrolled after the first week of my freshman year. My parents do not know how I feel about school, and they see this as a golden oppurtunity to advance in life and blah blah blah. It is not for me and I can not make myself want to be a student any longer. I tried and I only think about money so I will take another route to go get it. Im not saying that I am dropping out of college forever and I will never sit in another classroom again in my life. I just feel like at this point in my life I should be doing something else. This college has been around for 100 years and I dont think its going anywhere because I decided to leave. Im still young and tommorrow is not promised....and gas is 3.57. Im going to do what I am going to do and it was fun while it lasted.

It always happens....

Why is it that when the end of the semester rolls around you feel drainnned and only want to get away from school for the short two month break we call summer? It does not matter if you take only one 3 hour course or if you do it big and take six or seven courses that equal up to 18 hours. Any little task like for instances, writing a new blog, seems to take all of your energy, focus and concentration. I think its just the fact that we are aware that the end is near and we want out! The last week of school is always the worst, because we are tired of school and sooooo much is riding on our last exams. You can pass a class or fail a class in the last week of school. This piece of info is also known by most of the student body and right around finals time the pressure intensifies. Maybe its the weather's fault...It gets warm outside, all of the pools around campus look nice and cool, ice cream and popcicles, short skirts and even smaller tops (GIRLS CLOTHING ONLY), and etc. I personally have to dig extra deep when this time of the year approaches and I think I open up my bible more than ever during the last week of school!