Feeling dejected, venting some frustration off.

Aerobug
Sat, 07 May 2011 19:17:03 +0000

And who do you think is going to get farther in life: the slacker at Berkeley or the highly motivated, top of their class student at UCD/UCSB?

When it all comes down to it, we go to school to prepare for the rest of our lives and to learn how to achieve our goals. Take your motivation to school and you’ll be able to carry it with you for the rest of your life when you’re actually doing what you went to school to do in the first place. A top UC school may look great on a job application, but when you get Berkeley students who can’t even bag groceries, their school starts to matter less and less.

Take it from someone who’s volunteered at homeless shelters and served post-Harvard grads: your college isn’t always going to be the leg that you stand on. You may have worked your butt off in high school to get into a good college, but in reality your college isn’t going to affect you when you’re 40 years old and have 3 kids and a loving partner. Go out there and live your dream. You don’t need to go to a top UC to do that.