Picture this.
You just graduated high school. You're going to college in three short months, you still live at home and you are expected to figure out just exactly what it is that you want to do for the rest of your life. You haven't even been alive for two whole decades, but now is the time so pick your major, or else!
Sound familiar?
This is a pretty typical scenario for most high school graduates. Kids who are still given a curfew, no matter what the law says, simply because their parents "said so." Kids who are used to being handed everything by the adults around them, but now they're supposed to be the adults. They're supposed to learn how to do their own laundry when their mom has been doing it for them for the past 18 years (also big thank you to whoever created those detergent pods so our lives could be that much easier).
There's no switch that turns you from child to adult like the world seems to think. Society expects us to jump right into our adult lives and know what to do, how to do it, and have our whole lives figured out (for the most part). They expect all of this while still not taking college students 100 percent seriously. And in my opinion, that is just unfair.
We deserve some credit.
Not everyone has a passion for a specific field of study. Not everyone knows if college is the path they want to take. Not everyone knows which clothes are supposed to be fully dried and which ones are going to shrink to something that would fit a 12-year-old. And I'm sorry, but we just don't know everything you think we should, but at least we're trying. So yeah, I'd say we deserve some credit where credit is due. We're putting ourselves out there to figure out which road is best to travel on. We're flooding the dorm's washers because we put a ginormous load of laundry in and didn't know it was too much for the machine to handle. We're setting off the smoke alarms because we forgot to put water in our EasyMac cup, but at least we're trying, right?
So here's my round of applause.
I would like to personally applaud every college student reading this (which I am hoping is more than the five friends that I ask to read it). I'm proud of everything you have been forced to do since you graduated high school. Hey, I'm even proud of you for getting out of bed today because I know how hard that can be sometimes. So keep it up. Keep up the hard work in school, with work and just in life. I know that life's favorite thing to do is throw you curveballs just when you think you've got it all figured out, but show life that you can handle it.
