Realizations/Thoughts/Rants

Some music first.



Now yeah, this is another post about college life, so what? I'll take this blog in whatever direction I want. These are some things that can truly only be understood once one comes to a typical state college. And as much as I love what UW-Madison used to be and stand for, I have to admit that we have transformed into the your run of the mill state school. We went from war protests to street parties just aimed at getting drunk. Yeah, we're all political and liberal, but most of us have no idea why. Shit, most of us voted for Obama because a celebrity told us to. But aside from my griefs with this university, here is a list of things I have come to realize.

• The high school mindset is rampant among freshman mentalities. This is why freshmen are generally regarded as naive, foolish, and young. No wonder they want us at their parties, we're the ones that actually pay. Not only that, we never venture outside of campus, we stay in our dorms, and we leave our door open in a weak attempt at being social. We stay with the people we meet on our floor, and this is our high school clique.
• Cliques do not go away, I don't really understand how this myth got its roots, for I don't believe cliques ever stop existing. It's in our genes, we spend time with the people we enjoy, and generally a group of these people forms, further looking down upon anyone not like them. Fucking bros.
  
• The bus system is amazing. You can literally go wherever the fuck you want in this town. I know I received a free bus pass, and this shit's expensive for anyone who is not a student. But then again, there is a spoonful of reasons not to ride the bus, right? I know I am completely happy with the 10% of the city that I have seen, who needs to see more, right? Shit, only fucking creeps ride the bus. I don't understand the system. Why would I ever need to go anywhere off campus? So yeah, after living 6 years in a town where one can't get anywhere without a car, it is a breath of fresh air to see that you really don't need a car when living in a city.
• Fraternities are exactly the way they are in the movies. I'm sure that there is one fraternity out there that is unlike all the others, but for the majority of them, it's exactly what you'd expect. Cram into the sweaty basement and hear screams of "Woo!" and such amidst a haze of cigarette smoke and miniskirts. Morals are left at the door as a social experiment forms. Hook-ups, awkward conversation, turn downs, failure, victory, are all present, and one can only hope to make it out with some vague trace of dignity.
• I have found that the kids who simply hang out with the people on their floor are some of the most boring and uninteresting people. Contempt with their friends that are exactly like them, they never venture out to meet new, interesting people, and will most likely keep these friends for the remainder of their collegiate life.
• Living in a room fucking blows. Loving the dorm life/culture is unconceivable to me. Between being starved for space, dealing with obnoxious floormates yelling, screaming, and generally causing a big fucking ruckus, plus the gobs of shitty music blaring in the hallway at eight on a Friday night, one will want to murder himself, as well as the entire floor.
• Collegiate society is ridiculous. Crooked campus cops, pretentious professors, and shitty academic advisors plague the campus. Prerequisites are bullshit, being grades is bullshit, and assigned sign up dates are bullshit. Not only that, give up on your hope of receiving an unbiased education.

How long have we been in this room?
Dude, we've been in this room for the entire fucking semester.