This letter goes out to the blood sucking, life draining, physical, emotional, stressful educational system! (bla, bla, bla) I as well as all of you guys have been in school since the tender succulent ages of about what 7 or 8??!?! Maybe, earlier? I am not 100 percent sure when I started school but none the less we have been in school FOREEEEEVVVEEERRR! You ask yourself, when will I ever get a break from college other than spring, Christmas and thanksgiving (which really are not long enough) and if I go by the economy that is the real world I will probably need to go BACK to school because there are no jobs hiring anybody any got damn ways. I, a college graduate, will contest about how stressful college is from the three test a week and the two test last week two student organization meetings, working four or five hours out of a day, being a companion, being a good friend and just all the other crazy things that happen to you in your collegiate environment.
So now the question is what are we really getting ready for?!? Most of this stuff I really wont apply to my major or my profession again, will I?!?! Because while my major as an APK student taught me a lot I really did not learn about what my profession had to offer until I did my internship in my very last year of college! 4 and a half rahtid years (sorry for my french/patois...which make sense if you know where the word patois derived from) to finally know if I really want to be in a major or profession or not?!?! Like, #cmon I cram, I study, I take a test and forget everything that I wanted to remember so I can take the next test tomorrow. And I mean yeah, I did a little bullshafting ya know?! I knew my project/paper/exam was a month away and I waited till the last minute, but I mean college was busy ya know? I mean my only focus was not just school (although that is what we come here for that is not always the focus) I mean my parents are coming down on me and I am worried about what I am going to do after college and I don't know if I should keep pushing with this major or change it or do I really need school? There are millionaires who have never seen the four walls of a classroom, brown mini desks that are usually fit for a right handed person and was totally racist to all the left handed people or the Colosseum type classrooms where the teacher is sooo not trying to ENTERTAIN us if you get my drift (300 joke, if you missed it) And as I rant on these situations are not all that I have been through personally, I mean some are, but I am more so speaking on behalf of the many stressed and drained college students that may be reading this whether they are currently in college or recent graduate or entering grad/med/and all the other fancy smancy after profession/schooling stuff. Oh yea, bla bla bla!
Was it all bad!?!? Noooo, not at all! I had fun, ya know? So many beautiful/ugly College women surrounded me, I got involved, went out, made new friends, got involved some more, hung out with different people, learned alot about me, cut some people off, got into a great relationships (romantic, friendly etc), took some classes that I never imagined I would love and some classes that I would never want to take again as long as I breathe in Nitrogen and Hydrogen, at least I believe or I remember something about thats what we breathed in...and obviously chemistry wasn't my favorite subject but I do remember getting all my clicker points tho! I mean I did preview (orientation leader welcoming in students into the University) paact/oasis (minority mentoring program welcoming incoming freshman) that was quite the reward more than any of the classes were. Watching my students grow up into future leaders of the campus was pretty fly as well. Some remember me some dont, some I remember, some I wont lol! But, that evil, pale, dead, female vampire (of course) with the cape who only came out at night (which is when most college students would be up) to suck my blood would give me a few nights off ya know! The greek life that I lived was more than a blessing as well and while stressful it was still something I loved! Putting on shows, events, forums for the masses...I enjoyed every sweating minute of it (sometimes, not all times, more so enjoyed the outcome of those things).
So where am I going with all of this??! Well, obviously we all attend Vampire Unversity at some point in our lives whether it is UF, FSU, NYU etc. etc. at some point and time you always feel like you can not go on any longer. (Cue Dramatic Music) But, where would life be without the struggle? Where would stress be without the rewards? Where would my ups be without the downs? Have I taken a second to realize the bigger picture? How many people would KILL (LITERALLY) to be where I am. How many people fell off around you while you still held it down...whether you were getting 4.0's or not! These are experiences in college are what we make of them ya know and while stressful you can not really let the obstacle overcome you, you got overcome the obstacle. Pray, take breaks, push with all your might and get through it! Do not worry you are really not alone with your stresses or your pains or your personal family issues, breakdowns, tears (whether of joy or sadness) there is always a fellow anyone going through it as well! So if you may have been reading this and feeling like yea, yea, eff this shhh...this is the part of the movie where you pick up that bat walk to the mound take a good look in the eye at the pitcher...AND THEN LAUNCH THE DAMN BAT AT HIS HEAD AND WATCH YOUR TEAM RUSH OUT AND SUPPORT YOU NO MATTER WHAT!!
It could be so much worse...and just remember your dreams, aspirations, little brother back home, friends in the hood, mom you wanna take outta the hood or just the lifestyle you lived before and how you may want it to reflect what you were raised in or change entirely because it was not the best! (dramatic music has began building already if you did not notice) I mean we can wine, bish, moan, complain, call the fire marshall and drop the world right along with Lil Wayne and Em but are you really a quitter?! Could you live with yourself if you let yourself defeated!??! I know I couldn't and I do not know how I got outta UF but somehow through the grace of the man upstairs I found my path to the graduation stage! Now, its your turn...I hand you the steak to stab this Vampire, our trusted and beloved mascot that chills in the century tower (a really high building that you would see the hunch back of notre dame in) and waits to get us, stab him and hold him down and expose his bish azz to sunlight and then tell him "COUNT DRACULA AINT GOT NOTHING ON ME!!" and most importantly find your place where your happy aim for it and reach beyond it! College sucks...but its not forever...unless your a med/pharmacy/PT student...and then its another story but...when your done the gwap will be pretty decent! Anywho, im out! if you read this I appreciate you! If you didnt then I understand that this was pretty freaking long! But yea, I digress! Holla! hope these words helped!
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Man this really hit the spot because I sure been through some ol bullshit with this here University of Florida! Its good to realize that I am not alone though! And yea this was long but I really needed this! thanks neemz
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