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What to expect in college

 

I always try to look forward for my own graduation and get my bachelor degree certificate right away, It’s an exciting feeling to know that, in theory, I’ll never have to sit in another classroom ever again. Ever. Sure, I could keep going for another seven years to take my school in medicine, but at this point, crapping my pants on a daily basis sounds more appealing.

Well, in less than 7 days i would be back to school. Although i have this love-hate relationship with school, the most prominent feeling that i could feel right now is the feeling of rage towards the system that my so-called school develop.

C’mon, we all could relate to the system. No matter how smart or how nice you are, there are always something about school that pissess you off. Be it the professor, the subjects, OR the system.

Here’s a few of things that pissess me off and i have no power to change that but, well at least i could ranting it all over the internet stream: [the following contains some personal rage and some copy-paste articles, so use your cunning eyes to find out which belongs to which, however, the followings are something that we all could relate to =)] 

No matter how smart or nice you are, you will have professors that take an immediate disliking to you and/or grade you unfairly.  

This might be subjective, but really, I don’t care who you are. There are professors who choose their favorites and the rest of the class can basically go to hell. I had a male professor who should have retired 20 years ago saying off-the-wall things in class to girls that made the whole class feel awkward. Any male or unattractive girl in that class had an immediate disadvantage. I’m not sure if anyone ever reported him, but if they did, it made no difference.

You will take classes that have absolutely nothing to do with your major or, really, anything at all.

As a laboratory science major, one would think I’d spend most of my time in laboratories and science classess, while also learning about the laws and ethics of the biotechnological field.

No, no.

This is a rough estimate, but I’m going to say that 75 percent of the classes I took in college were completely unrelated to my field. I was in food production and bible classes, electronic classes, statistics classes. Plus there was a minimum of 15- page paper that needs to be submitted in the end of semester, which I had to get myself drunk (by mountain dew that is) to even finish. I slammed six bottles in a row and silently wept while muttering, “I just don’t care anymore. I just don’t care…”

Yes, you will shed tears over a stupid class.

And yes, I made an A on that paper. (O_o)

You will have to participate in group projects with unreliable morons.(me, sometimes, included)

 

                        “Library tomorrow morning? Sounds great!“


I went to a small enough high school that teachers usually just let us get into groups of our choice. In college, the groups were assigned by the professor, and they did this by pointing to us and having us say a number. The professor would go up and down the row while we counted to 5 and then the process would start over again. After counting was done, the 1’s would be a group, the 2’s another, and so on and so forth.Literature classes were good groups to be a part of, because most of us really had no social life outside of school or work. This meant we had more time to plan and focus on our individual tasks, with occasional updates at library gatherings.
However, several of my electives had a weird mixture of people. There were the people who cared about the course because they had to have it for their major. There were the people who were there because nothing else fit into their schedule, so they didn’t give two shits. Then there were the people like me who cared about their electives because they didn’t want to have to go an extra semester just to take some bullshit class called Physical for Fitness so that we could get our hours.
So trust me, you will have to deal with morons in your group. Fortunately there are usually group evaluations at the end, so you can comment that they’re a bunch of idiots who deserves an F.

And finally, you will have to make some dumbass introduction about yourself in front of class every semester.
I consider myself a fairly good person, but let’s be honest - no one really cares to get to know each other in class. At least four out of the five classes I took every semester had the inevitable “Name an interesting fact about yourself” bullshit. There are very few facts about myself that even my own mother would find interesting, so finding a fact that could be deemed “interesting” by 30 other college students was completely hopeless.

My facts usually ended up being things about myself that haven’t even happened yet, like one time I said, “Well, I really want to dive to a shipwreck.” This way I at least sounded like I had the potential to be an interesting individual.

Do yourself a favor and come up with about three really interesting facts about yourself. I would say use the same interesting fact over and over again, but students and professors might catch on to that. And we wouldn’t want them to think that there’s only one interesting aspect about yourself, now would we?

 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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