#effortlessperfection

We all want to be the best(at least secretly), but why? Capitalism?  And what does being the best mean? And if you don’t think you’re the smartest or prettiest what do you do? Keep trying or if you’ve given up..drink? Or does drinking and pretending not to give a fuck sometimes make you “cool?.” If you don’t try you have less to lose right? 

What if you don’t actually enjoy sex? What if your parents hired a babysitter until you graduated highschool? What if you got C’s in special Math and only got into Kenyon because you can pay full tuition? 

On facebook...the pictures make you look cool but you look like a chubby weirdo with questionable friends, so do you untag all the memories? 

Do I write something with clever imagery that is sure to make you like this or just use the vague statements that earn me a B(if I’m lucky) on an essay?

We aspire to be like Olivia Pope but we love people who are unapologetically flawed like Tina Fey or Lina Dunham...actually a lot of people don’t like Lena Dunham. 

I sat down to write this and I realized that while college might be just as difficult for guys, there is definitely something especially fucked up about being a girl at Kenyon. I was never pretty enough, smart enough, cool enough, unique enough, talented enough, or funny enough to be be happy with myself. That can really wear on a person— not being happy for so long. And it definitely wore on me.

 I don’t know where the pressure comes from. Maybe somewhere obscure and looming like society, or somewhere internal like one’s self, but wherever it originates, the pressure that college girls experience can be all-consuming. I always wondered why it was so much easier for others, but I think now that perhaps it wasn’t easy for anyone. We were all struggling with the same things. What does it mean to be the ideal college student? How does one become that girl? What do you do if you can never become her? 

Anonymous Female Professor at Kenyon College: If you asked many girls in this video about what they did they'd tell you that they were expressing their sexuality...they might not realize how they are objectifying themselves. Its more competitive to get into Kenyon as a woman and so female students are usually brighter and more accomplished. You have to wonder if this is a way to keep females down. 

Based on Janet Reitman's article Sex and Scandal at Duke University.