A realization.
Posted by Tino Evangelou on February 21, 2008
I’m tired of school. The wall has officially been hit. I’m glad this is my last semester because I just don’t feel like dealing with the pressure of grades and writing papers and all that anymore. During January I was working every day and largely self-sufficient and I loved it. I think that’s when I realized that I just want to get to work and have all the time and money to do whatever I want when I’m done with it, without any tests or papers or research hanging over my head.
The weekend parties and the hanging out and all that are great, but I think I can still do all that without needing to be in school. I’m only 22 and I’m not settling down for a while. I can work and still have plenty of fun without needing to be a full-blown “responsible adult.” If it wasn’t for that stuff I’d really be in trouble, because my weekdays are nothing but monotonous routines right now.
It’s not even like I’ve had much work to do (I’m still waiting on a couple of books), I’m just tired of working by day and giving up my nights to classes that dictate how I should spend my time when I’m not in them. In retrospect deciding not to apply to law school was a good decision. I needed to get this degree to open up my opportunities and it is ideal that it was only a year; otherwise, who knows what I’d do, because I don’t want to do this anymore.
I’m not really the academic I’d like to fancy myself as.
