Save your money, quit school

By Adel

Midterms. Midterms blow. They suck just as much giving them and grading them as they do taking them. Midterms are supposed to be difficult. Midterms are supposed to test the knowledge you've gained in the first half of the semester. They're used to put the knowledge you've gained into practice. It's not only about the knowledge you've learned, it's about how to retain the important stuff. That being said, why the bloody hell are colleges filled with dumb asses?

Seriously? This is what I get? Class after class of chuckle heads? University used to be for those who wanted to better themselves. Now, it's a bloody place to hang out from four to ten years while putting off real life. Don't use my place of employment as a bunker to hide in.

I had a miserable midterm season. The school won't let me terminate students I feel are a drain on society. I have to "educate" them. Bullocks! Have you ever tried to MAKE someone learn? It's bloody impossible. I am not Edward James Olmos. I do not bloody stand and deliver.

University students of the world hear me; drop out. Those who just want to piss around in class and use university as a multi-year bar hop need to move along and make room for those who want to learn. Brilliant students in undergrad are getting suffocated by the sheer shit storm of dumbassary. It used to be just high school teachers that lost faith and all hope. Now it's surged into higher education.

What bugs me is that they have a choice. I get high school rebellion. You don't want to be there, but the man says you have to be. University is different, my future gas pump jockeys. You don't have to be here. Drop out! Make way for honest, hard working boys and girls.

Yes, I am ranting. Yes, I am in a bad mood. No, I wasn't a perfect student. But bloody hell, it seems that over the years things have just gotten worse. Today's youth is this country's future. I weep for this country then. I'm being harsh, I know, but sod off; I'm in a mood.

And then they come to me in an attempt to barter for a better grade. Really? You want to make a deal? How about this; hit yourself as hard as you can with your text book. When you come to, I promise to never to try to educate you again.

OK, I'm done now. Thanksgiving break is coming at the perfect time. I just can't wait for final exams.

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When not attempting to write for The Fuse Was Too Cold, Adel can be found mentally abusing college students on weekdays and threatening sales clerks on weekends.

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