The more I am in college, the more I realize how undeserving I am of this opportunity. I am not a morning person and am late to everything. I am just lucky.
I have also realized that unlike high school, being book smart doesn't automatically assure that you will be getting that dream job along with your diploma. It takes more than that.
Coming from humble beginnings, I am one of the few that was able to make it to graduation. However, the smartest people I knew in high school were not from wealthy families, they were the ones that people would call boys from the hood.
They were the same ones that would ace a test after missing weeks of school and did better than me in Algebra. A junior in a private college with mostly Caucasian folks, I haven't seen a lot of them. I can assure you though, if they were in my classes, with their street smarts alone, they would kick ass.
Being street smart will help you go a long way in college. Being able to assess the environment you in you can see determine the available resources and pursue them. Being from the street, will help you learn how to follow your instinct and that comes in handy in college when facing societal pressures and trusting people.
The best thing about being from the street is experience. During my first year of college, I was able to avoid peer pressure by being strong enough to not follow the crowd because I made past mistakes early on my teenage years. I was able to learn how to take the negative and positive things that happen to me and improve from it.
Unlike being book smart when you are just memorizing someone's way of thinking, being street smart helps you make your own decisions. Being street smarts means that you have put yourself at risk and survived, I have the pain, scars, resilience to prove it .Being street smart lead me to become book smart.
Being book smart is someone that is good at following society's rules and standards, something I don't usually do. I want to to become a social entrepreneur and and raise a family at the same time. Lack of experience in the real word should not compensate for just knowledge and getting straight A's. I have a knack of getting out of tough situtations. How much do you really know about yourself if you never been in a fight?
