College Sucks: From An Annoyed 22 Year Old Girl

Oh how familiar is this post, huh?

Look, I'm just trying to let my frustrations out.

Can we talk about college, though, and why it really really DOES suck?

Don't get me wrong... I'm as nerdy as they come. I love a good study guide, and I get excited with flashcards. My eyes sparkle at the sight of a syllabus. I'm all about sitting for hours and reading about anything and everything. I'm all about it...

What I'm not about is this thing we pay for and call "college." I mean I guess you could say I love to learn, but I'm not into torture.

My grandma recently passed away, and I was ...maybe even still am in a weird state of mind. I emailed my professor trying to explain the circumstances. Her reply was to drop me. She dropped me from the class.

I've been having a war with my accounting professor over my grades. She finds any excuse to penalize me, because I don't try to earn the grades I get. She's been upset I didn't sign up for any of her career days, and I even miss class because of work. She locked the door on election day, because people were disregarding the importance of her class and voting instead.... Yeah, I mean who cares about the presidency when you have to go to accounting, right?

My Ethics teacher also dropped me in the beginning of the semester when I let him know I would miss the first class because of a job interview. I showed up to the second class, and he made an example of me as a woman and the way "we" think we can make men bend rules for us.

It's easy to say this feels like the semester from hell. Did I mention how funny college is? I got hit on by a guy who wouldn't go away, today. He literally kept bothering me up to my car. There was campus security coming around, and I had to tell the security guard that this guy was bothering me... That's the thing... college is full of guys who think they can ignore a girl's "NO." Isn't that just the world we live in, though? That's another story for another time.

I'm just frustrated with college. We're forced to take classes that have nothing to do with our major. We have to pay insane amounts of money, but there's people who enroll in college for just FAFSA and get crazy amounts of money that never goes to their education... Yet I'm disqualified for that money, because my parents make enough money. Yo, my parents don't pay for my education! Their money goes to bills, cause not every American makes money like they shit...

Professors think all we do is go to their class and dream about their lectures... Look, I have a job and 6 other classes. I'm just a 22 year old girl who is annoyed with the logic behind this system. I'm just trying to better myself while trying to adult on my own. Just as education stopped being free so did everything else. I'm an "adult," now and all of my college student money that is earned WHILE I go to school unfortunately can't all go to that Geology course that has nothing to do with my major. I have to eat, pay for gas, and I get sick, too.

Look, life isn't fair, but I'd like to punch college in its little poopy face and talk about what I expect from a professor when I'm paying for these courses.

Let THAT be known.