Conner Quigley
A Stereotypical College Student
I wake up everyday past 7 a.m., I'm always on the computer, my phone is my life, I cant remember the last real conversation I had with someone on a telephone, and I spend a quarter of my paycheck on food, who am I? I call myself a college student and its a similar story for many other higher learning students. Being rebellious, striving to reach a career I want in life, impressing the opposite sex, and finding ways to keep afloat financially are just a few of the ways that make up my G.P.A. In light of everything I accomplish as a college student, I have an average “C” G.P.A. Although my G.P.A is average the different fields I am graded in range from C to A letter grades. How I earned these grades is complicated but explainable. Like all grades we don’t necessarily agree with what we always get.
Being rebellious is part of human nature. What affects the level of rebellion is easily associated with how someone is raised, where someone grew up, and what race they are. We like to think we are always right, having an opinion on everything, and hate to be proven wrong. I look back at my high school years and laugh at how my rebellious skills have carried over. Now that I have become more intelligent *cough cough* I put my two cents into every subject that is discussed. Every topic has an explanation from Conner Quigley. I know I can look back years ago when I had no care in the world what the difference between a democrat and a republican was. Fast Forward to the present and a whole different story emerge. I use my education and street skills to help construct answers for everything now. I feel as though any question can produce an educated guess from me. This could be compared to my rebellion that so overwhelms a fresh out of high school student. What happens most for rebellious kids is that moment when they are finally living on their own. For me lots of habits got put into a lock box, for example, I never do my dishes now, I never wash my clothes, I always forget to turn lights out, and I never have any chores to do. It is awesome being my own enemy, but it does not benefit my long term goals in reaching my career path.
A career in my eyes is a focused field of work that your willing to participate in for the rest of your life. Luckily I found mine when I was in elementary school with out knowing it but for others they have no idea what they want to do for the rest of their lives. My future career will hopefully be owning firms and businesses. In the stereotypical world of a college student an A+ in this area would mean changing majors multiple times throughout high school and in college. So I earn a C in this area because I haven't changed my career choice yet although in perspective I still have 4 to 5 years of school left. A lot can change in 4 to 5 years, you never know anymore. Lots of students drop out after their first year, if they have not dropped out, chances are they don’t have the best grades. I am right in between the struggle and the drop out. I have a full time job, lots of projects, friends to hang out with, and then constantly have to find time for homework. Its rough but I get it done. A stereotypical college student cant make up their mind on whether to do homework, cook food, or hang out with friends. What bites the most is when the weather starts to warm up. Imagine a perfect 80 degree Sunday, big fluffy clouds in the sky, sun relaxing your body, the chances skyrocket for students to skip homework and say “ I will do it later, its to nice out to focus.” All areas weighed, working towards the goal society puts on students shoulders. What is worse is that its not just one goal, its purely assumed you will be slaving at a job the rest of your life and hopefully spending it with someone you can stand 24 hours of the the day. Marriage, the one topic every college student should be least worried about, but most definitively is not.
Impressing the opposite sex is again embedded in the human DNA. We constantly want companionship and in college when you have tons of down time you can find someone pretty easy to connect with. As a stereotypical college student I feel as though I have an average C in this field. Even though I'm not completely pursuing a woman I am very happy with my decision to stay away from relationships. I don’t wake up everyday to spruce up my face so every woman is attracted to me or better yet pick out my clothes for the day. I just go, doing whatever gets thrown on that day, calling it good. I feel as though a relationship would get me closer to the stereotype of a college student which includes bad grades and skipping class. Relationships are time consuming and Im going to worry about that later down the road. Also relationships are expensive and stereotypical college students are struggling already with out a relationship. Finances are just the beginning to the college world.
Finances are a fun topic among college students. I know for me I have almost spent my entire financial aid for this semester and I have a full time job which means I bring in over a thousand dollars a month. I live paycheck to paycheck paying off my credit card and making sure I stay well fed for the week. Food is a big expenditure as well as fun to keep me sane. Im always scared to overdraw my bank account and it’s a growing trend among college students. College gets more expensive every year and it does not help the stereotype of a poor college student. Its funny, your purpose as a college student is to get good grades, while in school you live like your poor, the end result is hopefully you are filthy rich the rest of your life to make up for the years you lived poor. As a stereotypical college student I think I have an A in this area. I feel very poor at the moment, the poorest I have ever felt in my small life. It seems like nothing is going to change penetrate my “poor wall.” It’s a final countdown to hopefully being rich someday.
Living the college life is not easy but being like everyone else isn’t fun either. The stereotypical college student always trying to make the cut in life, not fail at school, striving to reach a career in life, finding enough money to eat, and impressing the opposite sex is just a constant test we keep. I completely agree with my C average typical high education young adult student. I hope someday “society” will change the pressure that is put on students so finances are not stressed upon everyday and the real matters that should be dealt with in college can be focused on.
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