Epiphany

Before I started college, I remember thinking about how college students always seemed to be doing certain things. Things like eating on the run, eating cheap food, being sleep deprived, wearing the first thing they could throw on out of their closets. The other day, I realized something. It's not because we choose to do those things, but that we have no other choice. Yes, for the first week or so, with our newfound freedom, we choose to stay up late, and eat junk food, and sleep until we have to wear the first thing we see when we wake up. But now that I'm getting into the swing of things, I realize that college students don't do that stuff because they want to, they do it because they can't afford to go to bed early enough to wake up in time to wear a decent outfit. We are busy, and we eat on the run. We are poor, so we buy cheap food. I used to think college students were the way they were because they wanted to be. But now that I am one, I realize that it's because that's what we have to become in order to BE a college student.

If you could make sense of that madness, kudos to you.