Hey Miriam, you might laugh at this idea, but Queens College is great! The professors are very good, and there are lots of opportunities in New York. Also, it’s cheap.
Miss you,
Karla

That’s a really nice quote, thanks for sharing it. A counselor I saw at NU actually told me a similar thing, and it was really helpful.

The difficulty is knowing that I’m stuck on this wrong path for the next two years, and possibly longer, if graduate school is anything like this.

“You enter the forest
at the darkest point,
where there is no path.

Where there is a way or path,
it is someone else’s path.

You are not on your own path.

If you follow someone else’s way,
you are not going to realize
your potential.”

It seems to me you might be on someone else’s path?

Not all professors post or share the opinions of College Misery, trust me. I always ask the students to whom I become closer why did they chose the institution where I teach. Many say because his/her father, uncle, etc came here, so it’s a family tradition. Others because they like a few specific programs. Or because they got a good financial aid package. A lot of students, though, say that they came here because they didn’t want to be force to drink and party as a way to be cool (there are plenty of those, too, but there is less peer-pressure).

Thanks, Prof. 🙂 (since I don’t know your real name, I’m going to call you that.) It’s especially nice to see some positivity from a professor, because most of what I read from professors is quite disparaging towards college students. Apparently we’re all lazy and entitled and whatnot. Hey, don’t look at me, I’m just here on scholarship…

That is indeed a helpful way to think about it. I realize that my problem is mostly one of cultural expectations–although college is useful to me in many ways and the experience isn’t THAT bad, our culture has set it up as this ultimate amazing funfest and it’s hard to override the years of indoctrination with that belief.

Oh, ew. I’m sorry you have to deal with that. At the very least, my major (psychology) gets slightly more respect, though not much, since people claim that it’s “easy.”

But it sounds like our schools are similar in that people are very status-obsessed. I don’t understand that. Sure, it’d be fun to have a ton of money. But ultimately, I only want to make enough–enough to support myself, to have some nice things, and to travel occasionally. That’s all.