Journalism Homework: College?

“7:04am” reads my clock, and my alarm is blaring in my ear. Who in their right mind wakes up this early? Last time I woke up this early, I was in high school? Oh my, high school. It took too long to graduate but went by way too fast. Now I am in college, currently attending Saddleback, and my clock now reads, “7:06am”. I roll out of bed contemplating why I even bother to get ready and go to school. By now I know too well that no one truly cares if I go to school today. Why should I even go? I am so tired, lazy, pissed off and mornings tend to make me very ugly. There isn’t a reason why I shouldn’t crawl back into bed and if and when I feel like finally getting up, I will remember to burn all of my books and drop out of school. But then something inside me, something that never drove me through high school, and that my friends, is my thirst for knowledge and my thirst to become something unheard of. I don’t know exactly where I am headed in the future, but as of right now, driving to school at seven-thirty in the morning doesn’t seem half bad, in fact, I kind of enjoy it.

The difference between high school and college is truly like night and day. High school was meant to teach you life and college in a sense allowed you to solely grow and create it. In high school, I had always felt like I needed to “stick it” to society and well frankly, society let me get away with a hell of a lot. But college on the hand takes away all those boundaries but yet, I still find myself choosing to stay in them. It forces you to think harder than any other school years you had experienced. Because of this, I am smarter, stronger and better at making decisions, and I am continually growing.

To someone that is just entering college, I advise you to first and foremost take your “I think I know it all” attitude and flush it down the toilet. You won’t need it, because you don’t know it all, and you can’t grow until you are willing to. College falls, in most cases, in the end of teenage years and in the beginning of adulthood. This stage is when you change from person A to person Z. Sorry folks, you are not you anymore, but a more knowledgeable you, an experienced you, and hopefully a better you.

In the constant rush you find yourself in to finish high school you end up at the bottom of a very steep hill with no promise at the end. You will be scared, well actually you will be terrified but do not worry because you are not alone. Everyone is going through it, as did I, and college will continue to grow with you and not against you.