College.

I have arrived in college, and the first week has been nearly exactly what I expected it to be. After a handful of days of orientation, where everyone was far too friendly for their own good, I was immediately dropped into the world of college, which is much more immature than I think anyone gives it credit for.

Of my three classes, only one has had anything to do with its subject, and that is my acting class. My philosophy class is run by a woman who understands very little and encourages everyone else to spout out mindless jargon like it is intelligence. My identity class has had nothing to do with identity, and won't for another two weeks.

College is not what it used to be, at least as I see it. When everyone started going to college as a result of giving soldiers free rides, they essentially cheapened the whole deal. College is not filled with anyone any smarter than the ones you went to grade school, or high school with. Worse, the professors are not necessarily any smarter than these same people. After a whole generation of cheapened college, even our teachers aren't smart enough to really think about these things. As a result, we are encouraged by idiotic teachers to be idiots. I cannot tell you how many times a class has gone on for the entire hour entirely on the bullshit of the one idiot to raise their hand and voice their stupid opinion. I have even seen a kid offer the one smart thing said in my entire ethics class, only to be immediately shotgunned by an over-aggressive and very ugly girl, only for the teacher to back her up by telling them to calm down their argument and forget about it and keep moving on. Essentially, the problem as I see it is that everyone seems to think that everyone in college is smart, and treats their fellow classmates like they are just as smart as them because they made it into the same moderately prestigious small liberal arts college. Everyone is not equal, but college is one place where we really act like it, and it hurts.

The only place that college does succeed is on social terms, where it passes with flying colors. Anyone can make any goddamned club that they please, even if there's only going to be them and their best friends sister in it. Parties are thrown all the time. People are forced to live together. We eat communally, sleep communally, shower communally, and live communally. We breathe communally, and we even think communally. This is amazing. The only problem? We should have learned how to get along a long fucking time before we hit eighteen and got shipped away from our parents. We should have learned how to do this shit in grade school.

I have made a good number of friends since coming here. At first, I wasn't succeeding too well, and I beat myself up in the free time that I spent in my room. It only took one friend, one person to want to do things with me, and it has all blossomed from there. It is surprising, how much it backs up my ideas of social theory. Each and every man and woman needs only one person, one constant to back them up, and they can do wondrous things. For me it was one woman, who managed to get me introduced to so many other friends that I am now set for the whole year. Imagine how many people I'll know net year. Imagine how many I'll know after the whole four years here.

In essence, I've adapted well. That I enjoy. But there is one thing that I do not enjoy, and that is that college is not teaching me a fucking thing. back to the drawing board.