The University Hype10 Jul 2007"Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair" - Edmund BurkeI can't believe it's been roughly half a year since my last update. I've been braindead for that long. Or maybe school has just been shovelling crap into our mouths and forcing us to swallow... I just haven't really had the time or energy to keep up here, much less write anything worthwhile. I've been so ridiculously stressed out and binging on chocolate, then gaining weight, getting depressed about gaining a few pounds, before forcing me to get my ass to the gym. However, staying fit also means less time to do homework, and therefore we make a homerun and back to First Base Stress. It's a vicious cycle, but also strangely therapeutical.Whoever said these are the best years of your life, I hope is tragically wrong. Because high school sucks. I don't think I could deal with it if things only go downhill from here. Not to mention that they are stressing us out over university applications... Heck, this is exactly what's wrong with everyone - they're so uptight about cutting their bright shiny paths into the world that they actually buy into the University Bullshit. As if you have to apply to an Ivy League to be a smart person. They even have this term they use for smart people who don't apply to Ivy Leagues: "bright". An innocent word in itself, but it comes heavily loaded with exra meaning, somewhere along the lines of not being able to achieve one's full potential. Damn Personally, the only place I want to go is UBC. I don't care that my current predicted grade makes me an eligible applicant for Cambridge - I really don't beep-ing care! The truth is, I hold an ornately elegant navy-blue Canadian passport and that I was practically born on their campus. It only seems right that I should return. Vancouver is the most beautiful place in the world - I honestly believe that. So why is everyone (friends, mostly) acting like I'm letting myself down? I swear they have it all wrong... Why dream of Hollywood when you can be in paradise? It doesn't matter where you go for university. There are highly successful graduates from Harvard and Oxford to be sure, but there are also not-so-successful ones. It's not about where a person goes... It never was. It's about who a person is. It will always be the same qualities that pave success in one's lifetime, regardless of where you spent your early twenties mucking around. I want to be an illustrator - but I'm not going to art school. Somehow other people see this as a problem, and they never fail to rain negative remarks on my so-called "career plan". Well, screw them. I'm not making my mom pay for art school; it's not practical. It just means that it'll take me a little longer to get where I want to be, but that's not a problem for me. I do secretly hope, though, that Calvin Klein will sign me on for one of their underwear models. Haha. That might make life just slightly easier. Sara soliloquised on 10 Jul 2007 --> Comments (0) |
