I've spent my whole life anticipating college, and now that I'm here I love it! But this little voice keeps asking me, "what's the point"? I don'y want to become part of the system, I want to live on my own terms. They don't teach that here. I know that I need to make money somehow.. I just want to be happy. This was more a rant then a question... but any additional input or thoughts are appreciated.
i kinda feel the same way... i would go into detail but i'm too tired and lazy right now... i'm in my 4th year though... and i don't know... i never go to class! i just don't really like it anymore, which would be different from you, but oh well. i hope you find what you want out of life, whether that's in college or not
You can go to a library to learn or go to college to get laid. Also the point is something you never rerurn to, and it's something not nice to do to people if you have good manners.
I feel the same way. I don't know wether or not college is the right choice when there are other options to make my life worthy. I often wonder if I'd be most happy doing work in the less developed countries or helping refugees. Doing those types of things make you feel there really is a point to life.
this bird has flown, perhaps you could look into majors that fit your interests. If you're interested in saving the rainforests or just in spending time in the woods in your own backyard, maybe you could get into a conservation biology or forestry program. If you're more interested in social work type stuff, check into degree programs in social work. Whatever -- don't just give up because you don't want to become part of the "system", at least check into what is out there and what can help you be able to make the money you need with minimal interaction with the system (or even work in NGOs to help others fight the system). Have you looked into the Peace Corps? They do require a bachelor degree, generally. Or, look into various NGO (non-government organizations) to see who is doing what you want to do in a region you want to work in, then find out what their requirements are.
good advice! I did look into it but like you said, you have to have bachelor degree minimum. But in a few years that could be an option. Thanks, I'll look into both.
Some classes just are not fun. Thats all there is to it, learn what you want to learn and from all those crap classes at least try to get something out of them. I think only a person who knows something about something has a right to make a decision on it. To truly be an environmentalist for example you should study biology and ecology, not necessarly at a collage level but at least to understand the facts behind the life style. Its far to common for people to say, "Thats bad or thats good for the environment" when they don't really know the facts behind their statements.
It's not so much that I'm looking to give up. I'm still here after all. I'm debating majoring in Psyc or music or english, I don't know. I'm just frustrated because it seems to me that it has become more & more difficult to live a self-fufilled life free of material pressures and judgement. I don't feel that society offers us many options that don't involve sitting in a cubicle or stabbing our coworkers in the back. I'm sure I'll find something. I'm just not sure what as of now.
I've been going to school it seems like FOREVER. I'm in my junior year at a University and I'm already tired of it. I was excited to go to school and the more and more I study what I'm studying, the more and more I hate it. I'm going into environmental studies and poli sci and profs I had previously really got me excited and interested. The higher level classes I take, makes me hate it. I don't like the feeling of HAVING to go to class. I DESPISE taking notes and taking tests. It's difficult to keep the interest when all I really want to do is get married and start a family. My biggest fear? Never using what I'm studying... Wasted my time and created a stressful environment for myself, for what? Nothing... Such as life... *laughs*
The reason you go to school is directly related to what you want to do with your life. It's a struggle, but if you don't arm yourself properly, you will get buried. If you going to school without passion and a plan, than maybe you should take time to breath and figure out what you want to do. Why doesn't everyone answer this: If you were given the oppurtunity to wake up tommarrow and be in any profession, what would it be and why? I expect more than porn star or lottery winner from you all. This is higher education, right? Let's get it moving.
First off I just have to say great post for this is a question that has lead me down many strange roads, resulting in a two and a half month absenting charge and a B felony for trafficing. Yet I to wondered sometime last year what is the point. The only majors I was intrested in were neat but the jobs they encompased were certainly nothing i supported and in the end I could find no point, and still can find no points for my ambition as a chemical engineer today. Yet now I aspire to knowledge that may serve as a launching pad twards my escape from society. Im getting a horticulture science major, and Im going to found a permaculture based ecovillage, or die trying. I suppose I went with this because I love growing things, yet this major is one I would have , nonetheless, hardly considered about a year ago. I agree with the post before "the point" is not to be found by wracking your brain searching for it, yet it is that which will come to you when you just sit back, and know yourself. Know what you stand for and what you want to fight for in life. For me I seek founding community of ultimate freedom, in isolation from the ignorance and prejudices embraced by a society i could never bend to agree with. Hope this responce of some help, Peace!
Material pressures will exist no matter what else happens. People in college aren't trying to teach you how to live on your own terms because very few of them (if any, really) are living on their own terms. College instructors are under terrific pressure to publish and to get tenure, and I'm willing to bet few of them decided to go into teaching to do those things. Many of us end up creating lives that have no connection to our classes, but to the life lessons we learned in college.
hmmm... i like college not neccessarily for the obtaining a degree part but the people and learning. i love to learn new things and the people i have met are groovy and supportive. i hated high school...but i love college.
College was the time in my life that was the most free. I had no pressure to get a "good" job or a "real" job. I could stay out late and not have to worry about babysitters. I didn't have to keep anything clean. I have a degree that is not useful (American History), but I really enjoyed getting that degree. If I could afford to, I would take at least one class a semester forever. I loved going to college. Just enjoy it and don't worry about what happens later. Things will always fall into place.
lol...my dad bought me a book by this girl who grew up in a commune named Chelsea Cain. She wrote an autobiography called "Dharma Girl" but this book she wrote is called the "Hippie Hand Book." At first I thought it was a joke but there is actually some cool stuff from hair and clothes to compost piles and hippie jobs. now my focus is the hippie jobs...it gives a list of gratifying jobs we people might dig. i am going for a teaching gig right now and then at some point who knows...
"The point" for me was to stay a few years more off the system. So far so good. I realised that no job is better than school, (when you have a scholarship!) which does not mean that I wanna be a student all my life... I'm a PhD Candidate in Philosophy, but my next step is a ...cooking school !!!
yah i feel the same way...at school i feel like im comforming or becoming part of the system...goto school and get a job that you hate so you can make money and then you'll be happy...which is bullshit. but i think im gonna finish school just to have the college education then i can explore the world and when i have to fall back on my college diploma to get me through the hard times
