THINKING ABOUT GOING TO COLLEGE.
I always wished I had gone to college. When I finished high school I had no idea how to go about getting to college, so I got married instead. I didn't think to ask my parents how to go to college because it was obvious from the way we lived that they didn’t even know how to function in the everyday world and definitely couldn't help me with something as complicated as going to college. They had talked about college, but it was pie in the sky by and by college. Even I knew that and I was only an ignorant kid.
Once I heard some mother tell a kid, “ College is wasted on you!”
I read in a novel today, written by a college attending person, this line: "That was the best thing about college; it was so easy to leave. You could be in the place where you lived, having an argument that you had basically started and then you could just say,” See you later," and go somewhere else.
Since I’ve spent most of my life going somewhere else I guess you could say that at least not going to college wasn’t wasted on me.
2 comments:
You, of all people, would have gotten the most out of college. Your interest in everything, most topics, many people. I wish you could have gone to college and lived on campus. You'd have loved it (depending on the school, of course).
If you and/or your parents had put college on your radar, what do you think you'd have studied? Would you have changed courses along the way, or been able/allowed to, or would you have walked away?
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