we all come to points in our lives that cause us to wreck our brains to come up with the "right" answer. these crossroads are supposed to be what help turn us into who we are meant to become - whatever that means. well, i think i'm at one of those crossroads. i know it's not smart, but i think i'm going to take this semester off. yes every college kid dreams of taking a year off and going abroad with a giant camouflage backpack, living in hostels, and smoking pot out in public in amsterdam, but this is not exactly what i mean by taking a semester off. i just feel lost - i transferred to fordham last spring from BU and everything fell apart academically (mentally i was totally back to normal.) they wouldn't take BU classes and BU didn't have a core and now i'm behind in classes i can't register myself for because i'm a junior and not a freshman so why would i be trying to register for a 100-level course and blah blah blah. basically, i'm getting bumped out of classes i need to take that are conflicting with classes i have to take for my major all while dealing with the union scholarship and two parents who think college is the shit - of course, neither of them went to college so it really must be this perfect haven in their minds. but to me.. it's not! it's the exact opposite. i sit in boring classes fulfilling requirements - who made up those requirements by the way? what english/creative writing major needs to take FIVE SEMESTERS of SPANISH!?!? it's ludicrous.
whoa, way off tangent. back to my life changing decision that will probably seem so trivial when i'm approaching my midlife crisis: do i take the semester off and "find myself" or do i suck it up and deal with classes. don't get me wrong, i love school - meeting new people and new professors, learning, textbooks, the whole shebang. i just, i don't know, i'm not feeling it right now? does that make any sense?
maybe i'll take a semester off and write the next great american novel and then in spring 2010 they'll be teaching ME in my own class! genius.
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