Life beyond College, a scary thought
Stefanie Wang
Issue date: 5/12/09 Section: News
By the end of every school year, I usually ask myself where the time really went. I enjoy being organized, but that often means that I run on a schedule and treat my little weekly planner like my best friend. When classes, work, activities, social things mush into one large blob, it becomes difficult to pick out what happened when.
Upon retrospection, I always remember a quote that says not to measure life by years, but by the life in those years. How much of my life happened in the past two semesters? That is the question I like to ask myself, but it always gives me a bit of a headache to think about. Going from one week to another with my planner as my life support, I develop a poor conception and awareness of time.
Time itself does not bother me; it is what the passage of time means. With each year, the scary "real world" creeps closer to me. I like the comfort of being in college. Even though college life can be as difficult, the life beyond college scares me more because it will certainly be more challenging.
Looking back on the triumphs and failures of this year, I know that I am more equipped to overcome hardships than I was at the beginning of the school year. However, looking back even further than last fall, I can say the same of the end of the previous spring semester.
Life is about growing up and hard experiences that make us the people we are or bring us closer to the people we want to be. But despite all experiences and fond memories, the growing path never ends. I do not want it to end, but I know that if I am to "grow up" with each consequent year, living is only going to get harder.
It is like a video game that never ends. You cannot kill Bowser at the end of level 72 and call it quits. After you kill Bowser, Bowser's evil cousin is going to jump out and steal something from you which then adds on 100 more painstaking levels to get through.
Despite the fact that life is going to confront us in ways we (as in college students) cannot imagine as of yet, we must also rely on the comfort that there will even happier times. Come on, everyone knows that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. If there is a lot of bad, there is definitely going to be a lot of good, right? We will not make it to level 172 in the videogame of life if we are not strong enough to be there.
Upon retrospection, I always remember a quote that says not to measure life by years, but by the life in those years. How much of my life happened in the past two semesters? That is the question I like to ask myself, but it always gives me a bit of a headache to think about. Going from one week to another with my planner as my life support, I develop a poor conception and awareness of time.
Time itself does not bother me; it is what the passage of time means. With each year, the scary "real world" creeps closer to me. I like the comfort of being in college. Even though college life can be as difficult, the life beyond college scares me more because it will certainly be more challenging.
Looking back on the triumphs and failures of this year, I know that I am more equipped to overcome hardships than I was at the beginning of the school year. However, looking back even further than last fall, I can say the same of the end of the previous spring semester.
Life is about growing up and hard experiences that make us the people we are or bring us closer to the people we want to be. But despite all experiences and fond memories, the growing path never ends. I do not want it to end, but I know that if I am to "grow up" with each consequent year, living is only going to get harder.
It is like a video game that never ends. You cannot kill Bowser at the end of level 72 and call it quits. After you kill Bowser, Bowser's evil cousin is going to jump out and steal something from you which then adds on 100 more painstaking levels to get through.
Despite the fact that life is going to confront us in ways we (as in college students) cannot imagine as of yet, we must also rely on the comfort that there will even happier times. Come on, everyone knows that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. If there is a lot of bad, there is definitely going to be a lot of good, right? We will not make it to level 172 in the videogame of life if we are not strong enough to be there.