I wrote a fucking lot of gibberish when I was a kid (4 years ago qualifies as kid). This is an article I wrote on xanga in regards to schooling. It’s interesting to see where I stood right before I decided to drop out of school. I made a lot of bold statements. Some of them came out true. Some, not so much. There’s something riveting about looking back to reflect and having answers to the questions I once so desperately wanted.

colleges from some communities have sort of become a requirement. especially in mine, going to a junior college or not even attending college was looked at as disgraceful. what i have found is that very few people research the colleges they apply to or even know what they’re going to be doing. myself included (at the time). in relation, colleges have been seperated on a hierarchy of status and intelligence, not focus of study. therefore, students (and especially parents) push to get into a well recognized school. this can be extremely detrimental, especially for an aspiring culinary artist who goes to Cal Tech or MIT because he or she learned that they were prestigious.