Education Life: The U Issue. Because college students don't already think the world revolves around them enough as it is.
"College is a series of transformations — moments that change the way you view the world. And yourself. Where better to get a sense of this idealized passage than from the thick of it?"
I got such a great sense of what college is like from this Wes girl's essay about a one-night stand. Well, can you even really call it that if you're just making out to "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"? I don't even know where to begin. "Eternal Sunshine" is SO 2004. Also, who the eff watches that -- much less makes out to it -- on Valentine's Day, of all days? Girl should have seen this coming if that was his V-day film of choice, come on.
ALSO "He kissed me and I had everything I ever wanted." Really, extremely-intelligent-promise-of-the-future Wesleyan girl? Really?? Kissing some scrawny co-ed to the sound of a bonkers Kate Winslet on V-day was everything you ever wanted? Not, like, an extremely successful future life or to pay off your student loans or even something mundane like getting a really 3 a.m. food at Athenian after Thirsty Thursdays?
This happened to everyone we know. That doesn't make it universal, it makes it fucking sad. Difference being we just whined about it to our friends for like 2 weeks and then grew up and promised ourselves to never mention it again because it was lame, instead of publishing it in the NYTimes.
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