The Tear Jerker

Do I Really Have To Graduate, Or Could I Just Stay Here For The Rest Of My Life?

Between glorified stories from alumni, various depictions on television shows, and Asher Roth, college life has been skewed. I won’t even lie. My quest throughout college was to live in this skewed world where there are house parties every night and so many opportunities to get involved in crazy antics. Needless to say, I go to Boston College, so my dream college world is a little limited. College freshman follow this one basic idea and as they grow older, either realize that such a lifestyle does not exist or that they are not built to live the depicted college life. This one basic idea that envelops the mind of so many youths is linked to groupthink, the excessive tendency to seek concurrence among group member (aka college freshman). It emerges when the need for agreement takes priority over the motivation to obtain accurate information and make appropriate decisions. If you think about it, all of our college lives have been tailored to something we had no control over. It’s like I was programmed to live the life I lived while in school. The past generation had Animal House and we have shows like “College Life” on MTV and “Freshman Stories” on HBO among many other things. “I Love College” by Asher Roth is one of the more popular songs out right now and it promotes that crazy lifestyle that most of us want to lead in college. As I draw closer to graduation, I get sadder and sadder as each day passes, but I know my experience can always be immortalized through the words “That party last night was awfully crazy, I wish we taped it.”