Why we go to school?
Because we want a successful life.
What's a successful life?
To be rich? To be full of wonderful experience? To be peaceful and happy? ...
Sometimes I am wonder, why am I in university? If I want to be rich, I can do it without a college diploma. Steve Jobs did it, Bill Gates did it, many entrepreneurs from China did it. And then there are enough people to ensure you these examples are just exceptions; and study shows that people with a college diploma made more money on average than those don't. Then I thought, exceptions only appear to those who believe them to be exception. To the second argument, I can only say that if the contrary is true, who the hell will spending $10k to torturing themselves for 4 years?!
So then, after a flush of light, I am in fourth year ready to graduate. I ask myself, what hell have I done in the last three years? Well, I've learnt some math, accounting, financial statements, "marketing" and "organization behaviour" etc. Ok? While I haven't done any real business. Then, I go ahead ask my father that question "why am I in University, while I believe I can pretty much learn these stuffs by myself if I really want to? And you know, if I really want to learn this it would be much more efficient!" Well, his answer was that "University is some where you can not only learn knowledge, it also gives you the environment and experience that lift your life-views and ideas." Honestly, this answer is somewhat satisfying to me now. It's just I didn't know how to interpret it until now, literally now, while I am writing this. As a smart student with tons of ideas and questions, it's not arrogant to say that I have pretty much come to understand how to excel a course. If you look at my marks, they are pretty good, and I am confident to say that if I want I can get A+ for every course I take. But the ultimate problem is, some times you just don't want to learn this shit, even though you know people are generally short sighted by nature and some course might be very helpful 5 years from now. This being said, shall I excel all my courses then? Hell no, the only reason why people want to excel at every course is the people want to get a secure job in the future, well, I have to say that is what most people want. But not me.
The one thing that I have learnt or I have been born with is the idea that life is full of possibilities and I can achieve anything if I believe in it and work hard. It's not fairy tail for me since I am not a child. Even keep this in mind, I still can escape the brain wash of the Chinese education system for the first 14 years of my life. So when I was 15 even though I am in Canada, I came to believe that I should excel every course I take. Ok that's fine, people learn from mistakes. So until one day, you realize that you are staying home brainlessly in the holiday season, because you have no life, because your life is dominated by the education system...
Things start to change, I start not only focusing on study but also on altitude. I start to see so many flaws and negative thoughts I have as a person. And then, I also see so many good things about myself that I didn't care before. Recently, I came to believe one thing that altitude is everything to your everyday experience - if you feel everyday is awful, most likely that's because your altitude is awful and you can improve it through efforts.
If you are looking for a exciting life instead of a secure job after graduate, you should probably start to spend some time on something you want to work on instead of trying to excel every course...
Yes, many things to do and many things need to be improved... to be continue
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