Unpopular Opinion: I Don't Love College
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Unpopular Opinion: I Don't Love College

This may come as a shock to you, but I don't love college.

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Unpopular Opinion: I Don't Love College
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If you are anything like me, you are constantly seeing people that you go to college with or people that you went to high school with posting on Facebook about how much they love college. All. The. Time. When it's close to move in, they post about how they can't wait to go back. When it's close to move out, they post how they don't want to leave. But what about all those other kids who don't feel the same? If you are one of them, you probably feel like an outcast. I know because I am one of them.

Let me first start by explaining myself. It's not that I HATE college. I don't have this extreme, passionate dislike for college. But I don't consider myself to be one of those people who is head-over-heels in love with college. Yes, there are aspects I do like, such as my friends or being independent but to me, college is just OK.

I am that person who gets texts when summer is ending from her friends about how they can't wait to be back on campus and usually replies something along the lines of "Yes! I can't wait either!" but in my head, that is not what I am thinking. It's not necessarily because I don't want summer to end...I mean that's part of the reason because who really wants summer to end? It is just that I simply don't want to go back. And it really sucked when I saw people for the first time since I had left for college and they asked me, "Do you love college?", well what is a person to say? Sometimes I would say "Yeah...It's great!". Again, I wasn't thinking that in my head. But most of the time, I would say "Ehh, it's OK so far" just to get the response, "Oh you just have to get used to it and then you will love it!". Well here I am, two years later...still not feeling that love.

I used to think that if we lived in a world where you could get any job without a college degree, that I just would not go to college. I used to think that college just isn't for me and the only reason why I am at college is so I can get a degree and pursue a career one day. Yes, I do miss being home (especially when you live three hours from college and love being at home) and I do miss my family (we are VERY close) while I am gone, but after two years in college, I'm beginning to realize that it is not the worst thing in the world. Like I mentioned before, it has its ups such as the good friends I have made and being independent and taking classes for my major (which I have come to love). While I might not be totally in love with it, I have learned to accept it. I have come to the decision that college really isn't that bad.

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