on school

１１月２３日

You know that usual little chatter  whenever you come across people who've graduated, and they ask you how you are and you complain about how many months of pain you still have on you before you graduate? People I know who've graduated always tell me that I will miss school when I'm working, and that it's so much tougher 'out there'. But I learned a thing from some weeks as an intern, participant-observation and much research about this 'real world', and it's that they don't make you read this much crap and quiz you on it. Which I despise. I do love reading, but school has made it so unlikable for me. 50 pages is NOTHING in Lemony Snicket pages but I can't even bring myself to begin reading this one I have on political science. 

I would love to read Foucault and all the other cool people in the academe. But I don't have any use for my evil teacher's fifteen-minutes of multiple choice + essay terror, except maybe that it arouses my sentiments for saving the environment from how much paper we use in school for useless crap. School does have a way of watering down your fairy dust, and crediting you for buying their nonsense. And what's worse is that it has me writing this anti-institutionalization entry but it still makes me want to get an A for this quiz.