I Never Thought I’d Say This…
…but I miss engineers. Let me explain. I’m back in school, attending a local community college. While the school itself is pretty good, especially for the cost, many of the people there are not. Maybe I’m just used to hanging out with engineers and geeks, but I’ve found a lot of people in my major (business administration) aren’t really the kind of people I like. Too many jocks and people from the high school “popular crowd.” You know the type. The ones who care more about what they look like and what the latest celebrity gossip is than what a standard deviation is. Mindless automatons that try their hardest to follow what everyone else is doing rather than thinking for themselves. Sure, there are a minority of students that aren’t like that, people like me who care what is going on in class and not about getting their hat cocked at the perfect angle.
I guess when there are no admission standards you have to expect some of the high school dregs. If these people go on to graduate and get a decent job then all the more power too them. However, my guess is that the people who drop out at this school are these people. They didn’t belong there in the first place, just like how I didn’t belong at my first school (Rochester Institute of Technology). Society has bombarded them with the idea that college is required. Get it through your thick cranium, college is not for everyone. It wasn’t for me the first time through. Now that I’m back with a whole new outlook I feel much more comfortable.
Please, if you don’t want to go to college don’t go. There are plenty of things you can do to earn decent money without aquiring a higher education. If there are a few subjects that interest you then take those. You don’t have to go to college to get a piece of paper. You can go to learn, which is what college is truely all about.
on February 1, 2006 at 10:54 am
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you got it. D didn’t want to go to college, so he did the military thing and is now making FAR MORE MONEY than I ever will. He got the training he needed and wanted outside of school, which he knew was not for him. I, on the other hand, loved school and found it necessary for my career now… even though I make enough to just squeak by when it comes to money. But the bottom line is i felt like I was becoming a better communicator and that’s my job now.
on February 1, 2006 at 3:49 pm
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Nice to hear from you Elizabeth. Dave is a great example of how you can succeed without attending college. Military is an option that more people should choose. I don’t think my life would have become such a mess had I joined the military.
on February 2, 2006 at 8:32 am
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maybe not but I can’t picture you living that lifestyle….
on February 3, 2006 at 6:34 am
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I think I would have done quite well in the military. I don’t think I would have been very happy as a grunt but had I gone to WP or the like…