Goals and Education
Every man reaps what he sows. Therefor, the ammount of work you put into education is the return product (by principle) you will get out of it. Being in a class isn't going to educate you. The work you put into a class is going to educate you. The work you put into learning the material outside of class is what is important. If you arn't putting in the proper time and energy into your courses then you will not be making use of your opportunity to get educated.
I say this, because in my case, this is precisely what I have done. Confessing, I have not had to put hardly any work into my education. For the longest time, I have had no idea what I wanted from college, until recently I decided on philosophy. This may largely be due to the fact that I didn't have to work to get into college.
I got by on the bare minimum, first making only a 1050 on my SAT and second applying the day before the deadline, to finally find out only two weeks before college started that I was accepted. Also, my parents have completely provided for tuition and rent, which has been a blessing to be sure, but again.. i haven't worked for any of it, and have assuradely taken my education and my parents providing forgranted.
But being in college definently doesn't mean I had any idea what I wanted out of it. Actually I had no idea. I'm still just barely getting an idea. This is probably why im in philosophy b/c it is helping me learn how to critically think on my own. Something I never really did before. I was still kind of just going through the process.
But now, as I have started to really evaluate my life and a lot of different things, I am forced to realize all of this. This is why I may take some time off from school, to really figure out and set out my own priorities, and figure out what I want to get from my education before I continue just taking classes.
I have to figure out what I want from college, so I can start trying to make the most of it. I don't want to waste more time and more of my parents money.
THIS is why I feel like this summer I should read a lot of books, and just spend a lot of time thinking, so maybe I can figure out proper direction. So my goals this summer are changing as I think about them more and more. But I realize this is very important for myself, and something I must do.
Thats all...
I say this, because in my case, this is precisely what I have done. Confessing, I have not had to put hardly any work into my education. For the longest time, I have had no idea what I wanted from college, until recently I decided on philosophy. This may largely be due to the fact that I didn't have to work to get into college.
I got by on the bare minimum, first making only a 1050 on my SAT and second applying the day before the deadline, to finally find out only two weeks before college started that I was accepted. Also, my parents have completely provided for tuition and rent, which has been a blessing to be sure, but again.. i haven't worked for any of it, and have assuradely taken my education and my parents providing forgranted.
But being in college definently doesn't mean I had any idea what I wanted out of it. Actually I had no idea. I'm still just barely getting an idea. This is probably why im in philosophy b/c it is helping me learn how to critically think on my own. Something I never really did before. I was still kind of just going through the process.
But now, as I have started to really evaluate my life and a lot of different things, I am forced to realize all of this. This is why I may take some time off from school, to really figure out and set out my own priorities, and figure out what I want to get from my education before I continue just taking classes.
I have to figure out what I want from college, so I can start trying to make the most of it. I don't want to waste more time and more of my parents money.
THIS is why I feel like this summer I should read a lot of books, and just spend a lot of time thinking, so maybe I can figure out proper direction. So my goals this summer are changing as I think about them more and more. But I realize this is very important for myself, and something I must do.
Thats all...
