Don’t hate, just learn to accept.
Like every other person in my generation I am obsessed with staying connected with friends, family, and random celebrities. I feed my obsession with having a Tumblr, Facebook, and of course a Twitter. However, having them simply isn’t enough, so of course I get certain people’s updates sent to my phone because again, my generation and I are borderline stalkers.
Anyways, recently I reconnected with an old friend. He and I grew up together but then after a certain age we grew apart and I recently found him by facebook creeping. So after I found him he immediately added me and we started chatting again, he gave me his Twitter link and I started following him on Twitter.
Big mistake. He updates his twitter more than anyone I know, probably more than all the people I follow put together. At first his over-tweeting didn’t bother me that much because I was happy to have him back in my life, plus at times he said some really clever things. But the tweets got worse and the tweet that finally pushed me to have his tweets not sent to my phone was this:
“I HATE COLLEGE!!”
No you do not hate college! You want to know why he doesn’t hate college? Well there are two reasons why. One, no one hates college; it’s a wonderful experience that stretches out for four years before you enter hell…I mean the real world. Secondly and most important, he doesn’t go to college!
Yes you read that right, he doesn’t go to college! Maybe I missed something. Did going to a two-year technical school for medical assistants become college? Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that going to a technical school is a bad thing, everyone chooses their own career path, but a technical school is not college, it’s a school! It is clearly stated in the name, technical school, which means it is simply a school not a college or university.
You cannot hate something that you don’t know! You don’t go to college, therefore you cannot hate it. Accept the fact that you attend a school because all of us college kids know that you cannot hate college. Yes, we might hate the work, but that’s why we always put it off to the last minute and hang out with friends instead; it’s the college way. College is way too much fun to hate. It is a place to make lifelong friends and amazing memories that you’ll keep with you for the rest of your life.
So please people, learn to accept and don’t hate on what you don’t know. Hate is something that tears apart institutions, and those of us in college would appreciate it if you would leave our universities out of this.
Thanks in advance!
-V
