May 25, 2004
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Topic: Starting over
Now that my xanga is my leading marketing tool, I need to revamp my posts. I originally started my xanga as a way to begin discussions on important issues that seem to not get discussed on a regular basis. That format seemed to attract people, and in an effort to both attract people to the beginning of this movement to help america’s colleges and universities develop innovative educational reforms, as well as to gain more people’s thoughts on the issue, I will get back to my xanga roots.
Topic: The Million dollar question. If you could change one (or 100) things about your college experience, what would it be, and why?
Comments (4)
i wouldn’t have stayed a member of my sorority (though i’m happy i joined – it was definitely an experience) – i would have gone out more and had more to drink. i would have gotten to know the people better.
all in all – i would have been more well-rounded.
I would join more organizations so that I actually stayed busy. I could have also tried to maintain a job while at college so that I could actually have some money in the bank. I also wish that the school would go into more depth about classes, their effect on your GPA, and what classes are needed. They really screwed up in those departments.
You’re going to hear plenty on this from me.
I would have spent much less time paying people to educate me in classroom settings, and much more time educating myself, actively seeking out people who were actually *living* (not teaching someone else how to live) the type of life I’d like to live and looking to apprentices myself to any such people who would have had me. (I’m not sure such an option is even possible in a college setting.) Sadly, I had no clue about such options because our society emphasizes college, college, college, and only college to children. I thought it was the *only* way to become “successful,” and the only way to define “success.” There are so *many* other ways!
College success means so little, and it sets us up not for a life of freedom, but a life of servititude — to corporate interests, looking for others to approve of us and bestow on us a “successful” job that comes with a high income and other perks. This is not what we need to become competent human beings. We need most of all to *break free* from the dependence on the approval of others, which gives them too much power to tell us who and what to be.
… I would have sought out people who perhaps *didn’t* go to college, small business people, artists, or craftspeople, who were simply doing what they loved and what gave their lives meaning, and who considered money and prestige to be secondary to that love, or even unimportant.