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"College is the best years of your life" BAH!

Posted on Oct 11th, 2007 by Yogi : Smarter than Your Average Bear Yogi
I never understood the phrase "College is the best years of your life". I truly never have. College is the most stressfull time of my life. I take four or five classes. I hold a job and I also have a personal life. I'm not in my last year of college and I can't wait to be done. I have never understood the people who are dying to stay in college for as long as possible. Why?! I need to be done with school. This is far too much! I want to cut down on one of these things. If I am working on a film, I don't want to be worrying about four other classes at the same time. I want to be just worrying about that film. Cutting out that one thing will completely clear me of pretty much my entire pressures. College is not the best years of my life. It's the most STRESSFUL years of my life. Don't get me wrong. The people I've met here are amazing. I couldn't imagine my life without my roommates. They are truly my best friends and will probably be my best friends for the rest of my life. I'm making connections that I wouldn't have had without being here. I go to a great school. And I love it. But it's so stressful. Having a midterm followed bya quiz followed by a production class with a professor who is very demanding all in one day, is crazy. Teachers all think that their class is the most important and that you couldn't possibly have any more classes. College is crazy. Maybe it was easy when my mom and dad went. I don't know. I'll have to create a time machine and get back there to find out. But then again I'm under so much pressure from my classes that taking the time to build a time machine to find out, may just kill me. I think we need to do away with the phrase "College is the best years of your life". "College is very stressful, you meet great people and get wiped out very fast" seems way more like it.
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Ashley : Helllloo
2 months later
Ashley said

Oh my gosh I loved this. I feel awkward because I think I commented one of your posts earlier? Anyways, I really appreciate this. I am about to start college in a few short months and I honestly cannot wait. I'm not sure what kind of life you had while in high school, but mine is already about as stressful as can be along with the fact that my parents arent the most flexible people when it comes to me going out and having fun lol I figure college will, and obviously is, going to be a bit harder than high school but I hope I'm ready. Thanks for this article and I hope to read more from you soon!

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