Here's something about college that I stumbled upon online:

COLLEGE LIFE

January 3, 2001

People who go to college are incredible. We go to classes. We read and absorb and are comprehensively tested on heavy amounts of various materials. We sleep very little. We party too much. Someone is always sick. Someone is always complaining. We become attached to close friends. We smother each other. We lean too much. We think often of the past and want to go back. We know we cannot.

We all have separate lives, families, backgrounds and pasts. We live totally different from how we used to live. We are frustrated and sometimes want to give up, but we never stop trying. We disregard our health. We eat awful foods. We are forced to think about the future. We are scared and confused. We reach out for things, yet we don't find them. We try to sort out our minds, which are filled with studies, worries, problems, memories, emotions -- powerful feelings. We wander the halls looking for happiness. We hurt -- a lot.

We keep going, though, because above all else, we never stop learning, growing, changing, and most important, dreaming. Dreams keep us going and they always will. All we can do is be thankful that we have something to hold onto, like dreams and each other.

-"-"-"-

This essay was sent in to the website MotivateUs.com by then 18-year-old Carolyn R. from New Hampshire. I don't know who wrote it. (The site says "author unknown".) It might have been Carolyn R. though.

Anyway, it's a nice way of putting college in isn't it? College students, I realize, are incredible people. We may not always be at the top of our classes, or the number one in extracurriculars, or the best in organizing everything, but we're still alive and kicking! Most of us anyway.

College is exciting and scary. It's fun. It's challenging. It's sometimes even lonely. All in all, it's super! In spite of all the ups and despite of all the downs, I love it. I love college life.

So...let's party hard and study well! We can definitely do this.