Been meaning to post this one for a while:
I saw some of my 90’s high school friends this weekend at a tailgate before the Pitt and Navy football game. I couldn’t drink per my new regimen, though the temptation, beers, and boozers were all around. But after watching a parking lot filled with tons of college kids trying way to hard to act rowdy before the game, I was grateful for my teetotaling.
One of the weirdest things about seeing this now that I’m back in high school is how clear it is that college students are way less mature than high schoolers. This is something I’ve always contended but seeing the collegiate crowd a day after being in high school made it more clear to me. Maybe “mature” is the wrong word, but there’s something incredibly annoying about college students to me.
From my experience, both the first time around and now, high school students, by and large, have a certain degree of individuality and cleverness that’s enjoyable. College students, on the other hand, drive me nuts. There’s much less room for uniqueness. Personalities seem to become more crafted and trying to act cool trumps all. I’ve always felt that from a personality perspective college ruins a lot of good and interesting people.
So my message is this: don’t go to college! No, not that, but if you do go, just stay who you are and find people there who don’t care if you do or don’t drink and prefer weird jokes to beer themed humor.
