Thoughts on school
I’m really starting to think school is more or less a waste of time. Maybe I’m studying the wrong subjects? I honestly don’t feel like I’ve learned anything in college I could qualify as a “marketable skill”. My writing has improved, my critical thinking skills I guess have improved, but when it comes down to “what have you learned in your classes that qualifies you to do this” I’m drawing a huge pathetic and remorseful blank. I know that humanities and Spanish classes offer little real world benefits and switching majors here and there hasn’t helped, but as I look back at my currently mutli-thousand dollar college education I think: the most productive thing I’ve done here is up my alcohol tolerance. I feel like for the things I want to do in life, I need to be taking Master’s level courses to learn how do it – or maybe there aren’t classes that teach it at all? How do you teach someone to be relentlessly resourceful or how to decide what problems are relevant that one can fix, and go one step further to determine how to monetize that remedy? Maybe I’m just not there yet in my college career/life, or maybe I’m missing the bigger picture; but I’m honestly starting to feel like I spend so much time on school work (and worrying about future work) that its become a damper on my creativity and general ability to think about the world.
Enough complaining -
So how important is school really and how should I go about handling my school work as a baby entrepreneur? One part of me says get good grades so as to be in a better position to get a job. But another part of me says “bump this” stuff; no one cares about the GPA you earned a couple years after you graduate. Should I devote more time to being active, with an open mind, and on the look out? Or should I make sure I get an A- instead of a B on my literary analysis of 1930’s Spanish plays? On one hand I feel like the decision has been made for me – position myself to succeed in the field I want to succeed in (i.e. slack off in school and network, read about the industry, get involved). But the answer isn’t so black and white. What am I not seeing? Help me clarify. I wish I could just fast forward a few years.
- Steve