Rejection: Some Colleges Do It Better Than Others

talktobrent
Wed, 06 May 2009 16:00:47 +0000

Our generation has become the self absorbed generation of “me-me-me.” First off, you’re an idiot in the first place if you fall in love with some name brand college and believe your entitled to go toil with the privileged elite off in some leafy college town. How dare these schools deny you your ticket to white collar utopia and force you to toil with the lower classes in those yucky state universities! …or “GASP” get a real job… The reality is these kids have been programmed to think that their only redemption is life is their grades and accomplishments on a piece of paper. They have played the game and succeeded up to this point, and now they face rejection for the first time in their lives and they fall apart. Go ahead and beat yourself up for not winning a virtual crap shoot, if you are confident in your abilities you don’t need some administrator in a college to verify that. While you sit on the sidelines thinking your destined to flip burgers because you didn’t get into Princeton, the rest of us will gladly take the reins and build success by building our paths in life one step at a time and not let rejection keep us down. Most people will not drop their pants at the site of an ivy league degree. It might get you interviews, but from their on it’s all about your experience in life and what you make of it. Anyone who goes all out with their heart set on one particular college, job, title, etc. is only setting themselves up for failure. Unfortunately our K-12 education system promotes an almost cult like worship of college as if it’s the ultimate do or die test in life. Anyone can tell you you’re not good enough, it’s your decision if you want to believe it or not.