The System

Sometimes I think the system is geared to work against you. To finish, you have to figure out a way to outsmart the system. They don't want me to get an education, they only want my money. Which would explain why they only offer the classes I need half the time, and half the classes I want to take I won't get credit for taking. Advice is easy to get, but is notoriously bad and/or egregiously incorrect. I want to learn stuff. Stuff that is relevant to me. I want to learn from professors that give a damn about me instead of their tenure. I want to work with people that do stuff instead of just talk about it. I want to expand my horizons, as cliche as that sounds.

I want to know lots of stuff about everything. And I feel like I know nothing because the system makes me stick to one kind of class, one kind of learning, one track, one skill. They don't want me to be multi-faceted. They want me to be a dumb moron by graduation day so I'll do whatever the media or the president or the boss or whoever is in charge wants me to do. But it's too late for me. Because I will eventually figure out how to circumvent their intricate booby-trapped system of pitfalls and wrong turns and learn something useful. About the world, about myself, about life, about thinking. The really crappy part is, they'll still get my money, which is all they really wanted in the first place.