Of course, the reward is probably worth the struggle. But damn. Seriously. I think that, at some point in the not-too-distant past, a group of people got together and decided to make getting into college, and college, increasingly harder. To get into a good college, you basically have to give up fun in high school. To do well in college, you can't have too much fun either. What happened to learning being fun? What happened to learning for the sake of learning?
Learning for the sake of learning doesn't exist after middle school, unless you're rich and can afford it. In college, you learn what you have to learn and no more, because that shit costs too much money to be messing around learning things that won't help you make money. Because after you get done learning, you're at least thirty grand in debt, usually a lot more. You better have a well-paying job, because what you want to do just won't cut it out there in the real world. I'm lucky. What I want to do happens to pay quite well. But what about people that want to be artists, or writers, or teachers? I guess they're out of luck. And why? Because the greedy sons of bitches at the top want some more money.
I'm not saying college is all bad. Higher education is wonderful. I'm just saying that the "learn what you need to, and fast" mentality isn't a good thing. And it makes me tired.
