<p>I came up with this while taking a walk. 2 of my teachers are constantly bugging us students about why we go to college, trying to show us the stupidity and conformity of it. It makes feel stupid, indignant, and very very confused. So today I whipped out my moleskine and wrote this down. I wonder if anyone feels the same way?</p>
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Why do I want to go to college? I want to go to college to be challenged. Every class should be like AP English [incredibly, surreally stimulating]. I want to learn how to debate, how to think clearly, how to find my opinion in the broad range of them. I want to write convincingly on every level—to persuade the most sophisticated and the provincial. I want to be able to find anything out on my own—know how to ask the right questions and how to present the answers to others. In college I want to discover that one thing I am really good at, to go anywhere confidently, and to institute change. I want to learn how to educate and inspire, to organize and create. I want to do big things in college, not just as one person in an overwhelming crowd at a football game, one of a massive body of conquest and action, but as a person directing a body like that, showing them my arguments, instigating an enormous fluctuation; change. </p>
<p>I would, before I can do that, like to find a message in college, something I can travel humbly around the States to promote. I want something crazy-big from college, something my trivial minor life doesn’t have now.
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<p>Gee that was a lot of angst. Thanks for providing the room to vent, CC!</p>
<p>Idealism is great, and we’ve all got to keep that goal –*learning– in mind in our searches.</p>
<p>But, uh, OP,…LAC, I take it?</p>
<p>lol i have no idea</p>