The Best Time of Your Life

An incoming college freshman, driving with my parents to Moscow Idaho where I was to earn a bachelors degree or be thought of by my friends and family as a fool for not going to school, I complained aloud about having to pay lots of money for four years of misery. I had just spent the last twelve years of my life in school, why would I want more? and have to live there at that. Amidst this whining, my mother tried to explain to me that years at college would be the best years of my life, and so far, she has been right. Now that I am graduating, and am supposed to get a real job and go on with life, I, like most other people who are where I am at, don't want to grow up and live "real life." Now, my college career is supposed to be over, but I am now convinced, like my mother said, that college will be the best years of my life, and I do not want them to end. The schoolwork has been grueling however. I have always hated schoolwork, and still do. Due to this work, I have also had the most miserable times of my life in college. This I do want to end. However, I have found the answer to my dilema. I will take the best of both "unrealistic" worlds. I will return to college next spring, take some courses like "theater" and other nonsense (no offense to hard core thespians, I envy your career choices) classes for fun. I will reap the benefits of being a student (the rec center, free plays, concerts, seminars, discounted movies, intramural sports, etc.) without actually having to do anything. In the last four years that I have been here I have always thought, "man this lifestyle would be like heaven if it weren't for the schoolwork forcing me to waste my time away." Just one more month and I will be free from ever HAVING to do any sort of school work ever again. Besides the school part, being a college student is awsome, and I plan on being a college student that doesn't HAVE to do ANYTHING. That seems like the life. My mother also told me before I went to college that as long as I get a degree, after that she doesn't care what I do. Allright mom, I almost have a degree, guess what I'm going to do now, go back to school, because like you said, college is the best time of your life!