So today my prof...
Said that we come to university and pay tuition to be smarter. While I do not disagree with that, we pay to become more educated primarily, I would disagree with the idea that it is my primary reason for being here. Post-sec is getting a lot of heat from millenials because we all say we have paid thousands of dollars only to get a piece of paper and no job after that. I personally agree with that. However if I might also defend that idea and disagree with my prof's original hypothesis, I would like to say that I am in university for different reasons altogether. Recently I came to realise that university, for me, is a place for me to find myself and express that becoming of myself. I'm five years deep and in the summer between my fourth and fifth year I had a crisis of trying to figure out what to do with my life. It's inconvenient because I have wanted to be the same thing since I was ten years old and now I'm realising that I am becoming a different person than I was at the beginning of my post-sec journey. It gives me a grounding and a space to explore the things I want to explore and learn about myself in the environment of university. Like a closed experiment, I suppose. (Sorry science people if I used that incorrectly, I'm an arts kid.) That's what I thought. I was inspired by his words today and wanted to write about it.
