On Tuesday, my mom, sister and I got up at 5am, and drove to Eastern Michigan University, where my sister will be going to college in the fall. She had an orientation that day, so I thought it would be fun to tag along, and see what the whole college thing is about. I was excited to get a tour of the campus, and buy some cute EMU shirts, and just see how college life is. But what we did, was the exact opposite of that. Taylor was separated from us right when we got there to get her ID, and register for classes and all that fun stuff. And what did we get to do? Sit in a big room with all the other parents, and listen to lectures, and look at powerpoints. They wanted us to do this from 9-3! By 11:30, I seriously couldn't stand it anymore. On our lunch break, I told my mom we were playing hooky. So we left the room and just ventured around campus, and sat in the food court and people watched. I can't even sit in a class about college, let alone an actual college lecture. I just don't have the attention span for that. Which brings me to my next point.
Pretty much established that I will probably never go to college. I just dont think school is my thing. Never has been. I just have no desire to learn crap I'll probably never use. And I'm okay with that. I think there are things I could do without college. Maybe. I dont want to regret it later, but then again I dont want to waste my time and money going to school. My brain hasnt had to learn in so long that I'm not sure it remembers how. For instance tonight my mom said, I can see you being an entrepreneur, and my response was, what the heck is that? I just had to google how to spell entrepreneur. Come on now. Not college material. I never cared to learn in high school. I just took all easy classes. I just felt like it was pointless. And here's why. In my every day life, in the four years since I've graduated high school, when have I had to find the volume of a cylinder? When have I had to use that stupid chart that we had to memorize about tan, sin and cos that Mr. Post caught me cheating on and put a sad face on my paper? When have I ever had to relate the Great Gatsby to my real life? When have I had to know anything about biology? When have I ever even had to use cursive for God's sake? Hmm, never. And I probably never will. Some people become doctors, some become rocket scientists, some become english professors, and good for them. We need people out there that do that. But we also need people to do other jobs like day care providers, cake decorators, that sort of stuff. I feel like those are things I can see myself doing. I would much rather be teaching something to a kid, or playing with modeling chocolate than memorizing formulas and charts. I know a lot of people won't agree with me. But thats just life :)
