Campus

Just another brain on the campus

Just another man in the field

Just another tall pile of papers making it crowded in here

Someone else is working your thesis

Someone else's words in your mouth

Someone else's artwork and research taking you up in the world

Never leave me out

I'm standing by the sidelines

Never leave me out

I'm standing by

I'll watch it all from afar

Heaven help me

I'll watch it all fall apart

 Heaven help me

Help me

Help Me

Help Me

H e l p    M e

I go to a technical college.

And it is a wonderful little college. I've learned so much over the years.

I used to go to the little old campus, that was a building of nothing.

An establishment fit for animals.

Then a new campus opened and it is gorgeous.

I'm proud to be a student there.

But there is one problem.

And the problem is people's views on technical colleges.

The stereotype that makes me not so proud to go there.

It makes me embarrassed.

I know I shouldn't be...but so many people believe the same thing, that I almost believe it myself.

The stereotype is that Technical Colleges..(2 year colleges) are for people

who aren't "smart" or for people who cannot get into universities...

and because it's not a proper university - we who enroll there are like the 3rd class

passengers on the titanic.

The lower class of society.

I am going to graduate in the spring of 2019.

Next school year!

And I am excited.

But more than anything I hope that when I get my diploma I will feel smart.

Just because it's an associates degree and not a bachelors doesn't make me

any less.

I hope by the time I graduate, I view myself as not just another brain on the campus...

I'll view myself as someone who accomplished something good.

Something to be proud of.

And even though things may get overwhelming - the papers, the projects, the looks I get when I tell where I go to school...

I will be able to say I earned a degree.

And not everyone can say that.

So I'll charge into the world - a world full of people who have higher educational degrees - and try to conquer it.

All the work I did - will have been worth it.

 

Author's Note

Reviews

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Expressed so well the inequality and snobbery of higher education. And you are right. Often intelligence is simply measured by being able to have a high level of recall, not how the learning is put to use. Go for it girl, go for it and well done you!