What You Expect To Learn
When I came to college, I was coming to college to learn. Education was the number one thing for me, besides just the college experience in general. It wasn’t that I was wrong. Education is still important, still number one, but it’s everything that goes on when you’re not involved in the education part of the process that is the real learning experience.
I came to college to figure out what I was going to do with my career, to be a serious journalist, to use my talent for writing to do good. Information dispersion is important, right? But, if anything, I’m more confused about what I want to do because I have so many options. I came to college to figure out who I was and what I wanted.
I’ve found love, acceptance, and knowledge that no classroom that could teach me. I went from near engagement to being unable to hold it together. I went from dependent to independent.
I’ve found the information that the classroom provides me with to be interesting, all of the classes I’m taking have really enriched me. When thinking about college, I don’t think it’s the information you retain, but how quickly you learn, and how you interact with the people around you.
College isn’t about memorization. It isn’t about getting out with as much information stashed in your brain as possible. It’s about experiences. College is a place where everyone experiences life–what most people perceive to be life–so when we get out, we’re adults. We have gotten through college. We’re not only graduating from the university based on our academics, but graduating into a new part of life where we are finally seen as legitimate, seen as having survived all the trials we’ve been through.
My expectations were blown away. College is proving to be the best time of my life, even though it has probably been the most difficult with everything I’ve had to juggle and solve and move on from. But everything worthwhile isn’t free.
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