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Re: Why I hate the future. by mrs. johnson 01/30/2003, 6:12pm PST
Bill Dungsroman wrote:

mrs. johnson wrote:

I'm in college. Oh yeah, education, entertainment and eloping. Rock on? Well sort of. I live off campus, so the entertainment is restricted. I don't meet any women because a. I'm too lazy and b. I mostly have lecture classes. But that isn't the future. It's the present. I'm ok with it. At least I get the summer to tramp around in. But shit: I don't want to do anything. I mean, I'm getting a degree in Information Systems, but I don't want to program or be a Systems Analyst. I don't want to be anything or any profession. I want to write, but I'm too lazy and not good enough. What the fuck? Am I destined to live out a life of boring jobs? Do I only have three more summers before I'm forced to slave for the capitalist system? FUCKING FUCK: I DON'T LIKE THE FUTURE AT ALL. Ok here's what I'm going to do. As soon as it won't affect anybody I know, I'll commit suicide, I guess. Yeah that's it. First college, then alienation of everyone I know, then suicide. Don't cry for me: I'm already dead.


Here are some options; do any, one, some or none if you want.

1. Join a frat. Really want to meet girls and have a college social life? Join a frat. Judging by the abuse you regularly took at OMM with a smile, hazing isn't going to bother you. Frat guys aren't frat guys, they're just guys. Who cares? I didn't join a frat, but I worked with a lot of Alpha Tau Omega dudes, and being tight with them wasn't too bad. Why? Well, this one has a boat, that one has a cabin at Brianhead, this other one's a bartender at a popular college bar. Get me?

2. Dabble. The average college student changes their major 3-4 times. Core classes are there for a reason. You saying you don't like anything is like a four-year-old saying they don't like anything but peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I hated science in high school. I nearly flunked Chemistry, and I avoided Biology like the plague. Fuck that shit. Then, about halfway through college, I bit the bullet and took Biology I. And I loved it, I don't even know why. Next thing I knew I had a B.S. in Biology and a Chem minor. If you dig a class, bother the professor (if he appears botherable) about stuff related to the class. I got some great reading suggestions from my Philosophy prof. I was working on an Art minor while I applied to medical school. Why not? You aren't the A Type person who blasts through college in four years and takes off into their Big Bright Future thereafter. So take a few extra years, so you'll be 25 or 26 when you finish instead of 22. Who gives a shit? You might, if you take the time. Finally getting the balls to do something completely different can be a motivator in itself, and I don't mean switching from turn-based strat games to RTS.

3. Everyone's lazy. You just aren't motivated. You obviously aren't doing what you like; DO NOT DO IT ANYMORE. Hear me? I entered college declared as a Computer Engineer. I took Computer Science 101 and said FUCK THIS. Also, unlazy yourself. Exercise, get in shape. After that, join sko outdoor activities group (there's only about a billion sign-up sheets at your student union, I'll bet). Hell, they even have them for singles only. You will get some energy to stop being a couch potato and meet all sorts of people, who are into all sorts of things. Most people end doing whatever or studying whatever because they thought they might like it. Maybe they end up liking it, maybe they learn enough of it to feel comfortable with it, maybe they end up hating it moved on. What's the hurry, mj?

4. This was alluded to already, but you need to meet more people, of all kinds, any way you can. Not to sound like some crystal-humping faggot, but you can use other people's energy for your own. Just like panic, being around a group of people who are excited about something (whatever it is) might get you to pique your interest in it, or something like it. Just be careful, I think I just accidentally told you to join a cult.

5. The only nugget I can wash out of your pathetic slag pile of a post is that you would like to write. So, why not become an English major for awhile, if not forever? It ain't any harder than what you're doing now, and it can't be any less interesting to you. You can go about a billion different ways if you start out as an English major. Your laziness has been addressed, and as for not being good enough: I wasn't good enough to do much when I was a Sophomore or whatever you are. You have to write, read, and get involved in writing to be a good writer. You don't just pick up a pen and write The Great American Novel from scratch. Doing things that arguably require talent (writing, drawing, jacking off) may indeed, but they typically require a hell of a lot more practice than talent. Don't look at someone's finished works and believe they just whipped that out of their ass one day. A great - even simply good - writer (of anything, the field of writing is as large and diversified as my porn collection) started out (in college or even high school) writing horseshit, nonsense his own mother wouldn't read. I thought about being a writer in high school. I convinced my Creative Writing teacher to let me (or really, I guess he encouraged me to) write a novel all the second semester. And I did, some long-ass meandering bullshit starring myself as a mysterious high school kid who could do magic or some stupid juvenile shit. I wish I still had it, it's awful. Actually, I wrote half a novel before that, some sci-fi nonsense about an arctic planet where futuristic soldiers go bananas and kill each other.

In short, you need to stop worrying about how things might turn out, sound start finding out first-hand. You're full of "I would, but..." when you should be full of "I did, and..." whether what you did was good, bad, or indifferent, just different. And only SB can be SB, don't try to emulate him, at least not yet.

BDR



Well, thanks for all that. For one, I figure I don't need to actually be an English Major to be a writer. Regarding all that other stuff about getting out and doing things, I guess I should, but some supernatural force is keeping me back. I think it's because I don't really want to join a frat or play football. I just sort of want to stick to my books, my music and my video games. I've got plenty of friends who go to local colleges, so I don't really have any incentive to make new ones. I'm happy enough NOW. I'm just afraid of where my major will lead me. Oh and I looked around Electrical Engineering. Seems like a much more flexible degree to have. I'm thinking about transferring to a college that has that as a major (DePaul has no Engineering department). I guess I'll just keep on writing and as soon as Cabaret Voltron is up, some of you will be tortured by my stupid bullshit and requests for suggestions.

Slightly less panicked,
the mrs.
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