I'm gonna be real. My first post was fueled by alcohol and sadness. To be real this one is real (Gosh I'm fuckin repetitive).To be real again I. am drunk again. A major occurrence for me. I have a lot of time on my hand so I drink. That's besides the point because today I wanted to talk about one of the most dangerous things a graduate can feel. That would be entitlement. Entitlement is when a person things they are owed something or feel they deserve something. I graduated from a un iversity that is ranked among the top fifty in the country, The grand University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As you may know It is well known for its academics as well as its night life. Do you see what happened there? While just mentioning my university I became very prideful and without even thinking, I began to boast about my education. Its easy to see why so many college graduates feel so entitled.
I have a degree from a great university and I feel that it should give me an advantage in life. Who with a degree doesn't have that feeling? Its a problem that most graduates have no matter the university. We recent graduates feel entitled because the whole university experience from start to finish enables us to become monsters. Its starts with application process (for some it may begin earlier but I know nothing about that I just applied to one place sans visits or anything). To apply we do various multiple things that assert ourselves as the "elite" deserving to attend. That's where our humble mindset falls to the evils. We plead our cases through essay stating why we deserve to attend. Then our backgrounds our scrutinized, they look at our families, our extracurricular activities. Lastly, we take a test, which ultimaly will have no bearing on our long-term future. But can sure fuck up the immediate one. After all this is said and done some school (mistakenly, in my case) accepts you in as one of their academic elite. How are we not supposed to think we are entitled to something, I mean up until graduation we have been told through various things like the aforementioned application process that we are entitled. Along with being accepted and completing our due tenure at these institutions of higher learning, we pay massive amounts of money to become educated. When you spend your money to attend a place like that where they preach "you will be making more money than your peers who didn't attend" you are sure as hell adpted to feel entitled. I must warn you what I say may not be true for everyone. They are many reasons why I did feel entitled. I no longer have these feelings (somewhat). I learned the easy way that I'm not. For simple reasons too I might add. I got rejected from a couple jobs and realized that just because I have a degree from a certain university don't mean shit. I thought hey degree from here i can get any job. That's all I got to say about that. Actually its not, because I found out the other day that other can feel entiltled for you. I have a little true life example. The other day I was speaking about job prospects and my friend immediately shot it down and proclaimed " you have degree from x and you wanna do that! You can't do that!" Just an example of how people thinks degrees mean you deserve better. I was indoctrinated to feel that way blame society not me. As curly would say "I'm a victim of circumstance". Really, as I continue to. The fact that you jave a degree doesn't mean you worked for it.i for example did nothing durimg my college career, I deserve nothing. Man realizing my life wont be so easy after college and all my studies is kinda depressing. Time for a beeror thirty. Lastly, I stopped being drunk around the end of the first paragraph.
I have a degree from a great university and I feel that it should give me an advantage in life. Who with a degree doesn't have that feeling? Its a problem that most graduates have no matter the university. We recent graduates feel entitled because the whole university experience from start to finish enables us to become monsters. Its starts with application process (for some it may begin earlier but I know nothing about that I just applied to one place sans visits or anything). To apply we do various multiple things that assert ourselves as the "elite" deserving to attend. That's where our humble mindset falls to the evils. We plead our cases through essay stating why we deserve to attend. Then our backgrounds our scrutinized, they look at our families, our extracurricular activities. Lastly, we take a test, which ultimaly will have no bearing on our long-term future. But can sure fuck up the immediate one. After all this is said and done some school (mistakenly, in my case) accepts you in as one of their academic elite. How are we not supposed to think we are entitled to something, I mean up until graduation we have been told through various things like the aforementioned application process that we are entitled. Along with being accepted and completing our due tenure at these institutions of higher learning, we pay massive amounts of money to become educated. When you spend your money to attend a place like that where they preach "you will be making more money than your peers who didn't attend" you are sure as hell adpted to feel entitled. I must warn you what I say may not be true for everyone. They are many reasons why I did feel entitled. I no longer have these feelings (somewhat). I learned the easy way that I'm not. For simple reasons too I might add. I got rejected from a couple jobs and realized that just because I have a degree from a certain university don't mean shit. I thought hey degree from here i can get any job. That's all I got to say about that. Actually its not, because I found out the other day that other can feel entiltled for you. I have a little true life example. The other day I was speaking about job prospects and my friend immediately shot it down and proclaimed " you have degree from x and you wanna do that! You can't do that!" Just an example of how people thinks degrees mean you deserve better. I was indoctrinated to feel that way blame society not me. As curly would say "I'm a victim of circumstance". Really, as I continue to. The fact that you jave a degree doesn't mean you worked for it.i for example did nothing durimg my college career, I deserve nothing. Man realizing my life wont be so easy after college and all my studies is kinda depressing. Time for a beeror thirty. Lastly, I stopped being drunk around the end of the first paragraph.
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