Is "C's get degrees" the new black?
We live in a generation where sleeping until noon is glorified. "Not giving a shit" is super cool for some reason. And the bigger the asshole you are to someone, the more retweets you get.
...Congratulations!
I'm a victim of it. You're a victim of it. And the person sitting next you in in your English Lit class is a victim of it.
We want it all, but we aren't willing to work for it.
We blame everyone but ourselves. We blame social media. We blame society. We blame the super smart guy who sits next to us in Chemistry class who didn't let us snap a picture of his homework.
Two weeks ago when I was studying endlessly for my Calculus final, I had a friend say something to me that really hit me hard (no names will be named but you know who you are... wink). My Calculus exam was on the last Thursday night of finals, so basically in between finals Monday-Thursday I was grinding from 9am-9pm every single day. I had to get a really good grade on the final to get the grade that I wanted in the class.
It was on Wednesday morning, I was at the Dunkin' Donuts in the lobby of my residence hall getting my usual medium caramel iced coffee with cream and sugar. I ran into a group of my friends who were just getting back from being out all night, the night before. They were getting their morning coffee... for different reasons than me of course. They asked me where I was headed and I told them how I was going to another one of the residence halls to study with some of my quote on quote "smarter friends" because I needed to ace this Calculus final. Now I absolutely love all of my friends to death. But you now that thing that people do when they just make you feel like you're stupid? Like you're a loser? Yeah... they did that. They all looked at each other. One of my friends spoke up and said, "dude you need to chill." I was confused so I didn't really say anything, I just stared back at her. Her next sentence was, "C's get degrees, stop stressing yourself out so much."
At that point I was at the front of the line to order, so I said a quick bye to my friends, got my coffee, and went to go study.
The whole 5 minute long walk I had to the next residence hall over really had me thinking. Do I need to chill? Should I be going out and having fun with my friends? Am I acting like a loser?
No. No. And no.
You can chill after you ace all of your finals. You can go out and have fun with all of your friends after you ace all of your finals. And no, you're not a loser for wanting to ace all of your finals.
So... what exactly was the point of my little story? Well, first, whoever came up with the saying, "C's get degrees" way to go... because you're creating a real mediocre society. Second, never let someone try and belittle you just because you're trying to better yourself, even if they're your friends. People make the wrong choices sometimes, and they'll take it out on you. Third, stop blaming everyone else. It's ugly.
Now I know it just sounds like I roasted the whole millennial generation. Which I kind of did. But we all just have to stop complaining all of the time and being such big babies.
Yesterday I was complaining because I had to go pick up groceries for Christmas Eve for my mom. My mom was working 12 hour days when she was my age... as I'm sure many of your parents were as well.
So yeah let's just consider this one big roast to the millennial generation.
And let's work together to get our shit together.
