is that everybody has something to say. We all have a story to tell. And all too often, this idea is taken away by one's schooling. College does this particularly well. In school, both the concepts and you become generalized. This is false. The concepts are rich and you, even richer.
Yes, you have a shared experience with your classmates for 4 or 5 or 10 years and this culminates in a ceremony called Graduation. Your schooling is a shared experience with those classmates but in NO way is it the same at all. Whether you graduate from the University of Oregon, Stanford, Yale, MIT, or American River Community College-- you graduate from the college of you. Nobody sees what you see, nobody reads what you read, nobody experiences the same situations as you and nobody experiences how you experience everything. The name of a college is merely an umbrella term. The name of the school might as well change from person to person. I go to the college of Riley. Force your education to serve you and your NEEDS and NOT the other way around. Go to your college--whatever that means to you. Do that. Don't put blind trust in any system. You are not a system. You are a complex human being. A school for example, may get you a job (though they probably won't) but only you can keep that job.
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