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| Author: | brainslug [ Mon Aug 13, 2012 10:04 pm ] |
| Blog Subject: | Realizations of college |
From my first day at college, it actually seemed very strange to me, but because it was so familiar. People always say that going to any college, even a community college like this one, is a huge difference from high-school, and you have to make all these adjustments, and how everyone is so mature, but I don't know how much of that I agree with. The most surprising thing was that my peers were... normal people, like me and everyone in my highschool. I don't know. I was thinking that I would be going to the school, and everyone would be in "adult mode", but it was strange to realize that were were still kids. Even the older adults who were students were "kids" in the sense that I am. I don't know, it was a pretty shattering experience that everyone isn't suddenly corporate and mature once you get into college. To be a peer to adults, some of them in their late 20s, 30s, or older, was just immensely strange. I think it kinda shattered some sort of illusion that there is even a distinction. I think we are all always "kids", we just have to act more formal/professional for certain occasions. That is the exact opposite of what I would have expected. I would have thought that there was some sort of line or something that once you cross, you enter the "adult" zone, but now it just seems like it is a contruct, like there is no such thing as an adult or kid, only younger and older people. I think this is very interesting, but at the same time it is scary. People who are like me are the ones who are managing the world. They don't have everything together, and they have some secret mindset that they get when they reach a certain age. They are just people trying to do what they think is best, or what benefits them the most, and they are using basically the same mind as me and my peers. The only difference is experience, that they have been trained in that and have done it for a long time. The same applies to the people who can legally drink and everything. They don't have some sort of superior discretion by the time they are 21. I am sure their reasoning improves, but only as gradually as it always has. This realization that life is a growing process like this is amazing. One part of me thinks "I can't believe I didn't realize this before", and the other thinks "This can't be right". I guess now fully understand when I have been told "no one is perfect". I always just assumed it to mean "humans err", but now I see this whole other meaning behind it. I don't know, maybe everyone else just realizes this at a very young age, and it is not a bit deal, but it has taken me a long time to figure it out (and I don't think it is just from college, but from the many different experiences and advices I have had recently). |
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