As I read Matt’s post yesterday about Ryno’s first day ofcollege I thought back to when I went to college way back in the day. I had all these crazy ideas about college and
how it would change me. I thought that just by going to college I would
suddenly be an outgoing, popular guy who had social skills. I think I also
believed that I would magically be able to dance and the babes would be all
over me.
Shockingly this didn’t happen. I was the same awkward and
shy nerd that I had always been. In fact my freshmen year was incredibly
boring. I really didn’t do anything much at all. There were none of the big
parties that I expected to be attending every weekend. None of the babes
hanging all over me that I expected. And when my dorm had some kind of party or
dance I would only go and hang out for a little while and then leave. Alone.
My roommate was a really strange guy. He was a junior architecture major and wasn’t around all that much. We got along great though. Of course, when you only actually see each other once a week, it’s easy to get along.
I didn’t spend all my time in my room watching my little black and white TV though. We had a pool table and ping pong table in the basement. So, that is where I spent most of my weekend nights. Oh sure, there were a few weekends where I would hang out over in another dorm with some other dudes and we would drink beer or anything else that somebody got his hands on and watch a movie (porn). #Thuglife
Sometimes while I was playing ping pong with the other anti-social nerds in the basement at 2 a.m. on a Friday night one of the cool guys with his cool girlfriend would wander through. I always loved that “oh look ... that poor loser is playing ping pong on a Friday night” look from those girls which always made me feel good about myself.
Most of the fun I had at college, and the closest things ever got to the college experience that I had envisioned, happened in my second year. That’s the year I met Big J, Little J, and S. Those are the guys that I went on the road trips with. And the guys that I actually got out and went to parties and other social functions with.
After that year Big J and Little J both moved back to California because it was too boring in Arkansas. I should have moved there with them. Then S got married about a year later. Actually he and his girlfriend dated for almost 12 months, then got married and THEN she moved out less than three months later.
For me college ended up being a colossal waste of time and money. I have a degree in Human Resource Management that has proven to be even more useless that you can imagine. It’s my own fault though because I didn’t stick with a major that I enjoyed and excelled in. I started out as a political science and history major and stupidly switched over to HR. Had stayed with my original major college would have been a more enjoyable and positive experience academically.
Of course God has a plan for all of us and for me it was to
eventually become a world famous internet radio star rocking the house at the
VMA’s with Miley Cyrus.
My point is that for people like Ryno and others heading off
to college this week don’t worry about the future so much that you punish
yourself by selecting a major that you don’t really give a crap about simply
because you think it will mean a better chance at a job. It won’t. Do what you’re
interested in and what you love and somehow it will all work out.
Probably.
