21.10.08

My Loves and Hates of University

I need to get this off my chest.

Loves:
People stop harassing you because you're so cool to be in university now.
Your parents stop badgering you about doing something with you life.
There are lots of people and friends around to keep you occupied.
You don't get penalized when you don't show up.
There is a bar.
There is lots of food.
There is a massive library full of books that you can hide in when you want to be alone.
When it comes to student loans, the less you work the more money they give you.

Hates:
It costs a fortune day-to-day because you are constantly taunted to buy stuff.
It's just like high school.
The profs pretend that you are to think for yourself but really you have to submit work based on what you think they want.
It's not specialized.
You can go for years and years and never really get anywhere except in debt.
They offer limited options.
I feel stupid in university.
The profs mark in red pen and are ruthless- ruthless I tell you.
You don't have enough time to do your best, so you end up handing in half-assed work.

What I wish I could have in my education:
Individualized attention.
Hands-on work.
Specialized training.
Smaller class sizes.
A clear outcome of my future.

COLLEGE is definitely for me. I applied for a bachelor or arts in childhood development at Seneca College in Ontario for Sept 2009. I hope I get accepted. I'm getting really really frustrated with MUN. It's so over-rated. You just learn to be another zombie in the march of the walking dead.
The road to become... the same as everyone else.

*sign* Maybe it's just my stupid English essay (cough cough) that's making me this way. I thought i was good at English. I know I still am, but I don't want to write a certain way just because that's the way someone else wants it. I know I need to learn to write essays the was profs want, but if I'm not in university I can by-pass that. Oh my what to do.

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