Day #4 - Your Parents
Ooo…about that topic. I’m going to choose to skip it. I’m sure, eventually, I’ll come back to this one and write all about my parents…but that’s not happening today.
What I can tell you is that my Psychology class starts tomorrow and I am VERY excited about it. I completely underestimated how much I would miss sitting in a classroom and learning new things every day. I couldn’t wait to get out of college and start my fab new life in the real world. Rude awakening: The real world is not as glamorous as you think it’s going to be. I had no idea that I would actually crave the structure and simplicity (Yes, I said simplicity. Once you’ve experienced life after college, you’ll realize how simple it really was) of school. I can’t tell you how excited I am to go back tomorrow night, sit in a classroom for 3 hours, listen to lecture, THINK critically about a new topic that I’m not too familiar with, use a textbook again, write a paper…call me a dork for being excited about this stuff, but I guarantee that the majority of people I graduated with know exactly what I’m talking about.
I wouldn’t trade my 4 years at Chapman for anything. The experience truly makes up 4 of the best years of my life. From an academic stand point, though, I find myself wishing I had waited until now to go to college. I thought I knew exactly what I wanted to do when I was a freshman, but I think I lacked the maturity to really think it through and, I don’t know, maybe test it out before I spent 4 years and (thousands of dollars) on something that I’m not passionate about anymore.
I think I would have appreciated the academic side so much more if I had waited…luckily, community colleges offer classes that are pretty inexpensive and if that’s not a good enough fix…there’s always grad school.
