Out of the 19 years I've been living, 16 years of it has been spent studying and acquiring academic prowess. I've actually known more facts in the world compared to the things I know of myself. Can you blame me that after 16 years of doing the same circle, I've grown tired of it? I could only wish that time can get more fast paced. I still have about a year in the university, but even with such a short wait, I cannot stop thinking their is still much to do and accomplish.
This past weeks was such a bummer. Exams and Papers have started sinking into my schedule. Teachers actually forget that students do not only have 1 class to attend for the day. I do recognize that they are doing this to develop in us the mastery of the subject being taught. But, for god's sake, we have a life. Academics is not the whole world- Others even say studying is a useless tool when you face the real world. What really matters out there is that you have the ability to coup up with the changes happening and to have the "sip-sip" attitude.
The importance of the school is not really because one could learn from it. We are actually going to school simply to complete the number of units for a curriculum. These is as much as it can help us when we go face reality. It is not even a passport for us to reach greater heights. Its only a slight advantage in our resumes. It's nothing more than a bragging right - "I graduated, eh ikaw?" But asking such is a different question than asking if you have succeeded. Success in the future is not a direct result of finishing college. It is a choice which we build up not in school, but when we are already out their doing something useful for the society - getting ourselves a job.
P.S. I am not to put into mockery the academe or those that places their dreams in the hands of the academe. But, when it's all over, you'd actually have to face the fact that what you have learned would end up kept away- hidden dormant in the corners of your mind.
