[Augustine23574]

For years I have had a recurring dream, from time to time, with the same general theme: it is near the end of a semester in college, and I either have a term paper due the next day that I haven’t started writing yet, there is a class I’m enrolled in but have never attended (and am therefore going to flunk), or some such thing. I finally figured out that this dream is the result of subconscious guilt over not having taken college seriously enough. By most standards I was an excellent student, but there were books I was supposed to read that I didn’t (I took really detailed notes in class), and I could have written outstanding term papers over a semester rather than whipping out ‘three-day wonders’ at the end of the term. (By the way, I never cheated, not even once.) My advice to students: no matter how smart you think you are, don’t take the high road, follow both the letter and the spirit of what the class requires, and work with your professor throughout the semester to make sure you’re getting the most you can out of the class. Thankfully, learning is a lifelong process, and you can always make up for slacking off in college by later reading and study (as I have done), but why invest all that time and money if you’re not going to maximize what the experience has to offer? And if you don’t want to be there, take a break, get some life experience and make room for someone who does want to be there.

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Name : Augustine23574, Gender : M, Race : White/Caucasian, Age : 41, City : Columbia, State : SC, Country : United States, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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