<p>Who on HSL just doesn't want to go to college? Right now, I want to party for about 6 mos-1 year, and then join the Peace Corps or work for ONE.org.</p>
<p>I really don’t at this point. I have no idea what I want to major in or what I want to be. It amazes me when I see how far ahead the people here have their lives planned out. I would love to just travel or something, but I have absolutely no money saved up. I’ve been seriously consider just going to community college or a gap year or something similar. I don’t really care anymore.</p>
<p>Well, the Peace Corps is an admirable line of work. I am unfamiliar with ONE.org.</p>
<p>ONE.org is amazing. It’s almost like (RED), except it covers more issues like eliminating Africa’s debt, clean water, agriculture, business issues in poverty-stricken countries. Very cool.</p>
<p>Awesome. That also sounds like an admirable line of work.</p>
<p>Have you considered taking a gap year?</p>
<p>^^ Doesn’t it? Much more useful to the world than going to Vanderbilt or UGA.</p>
<p>^ That’s never gonna fly with the Gravy Train.</p>
<p>Honestly, I love the wall post on your profile</p>
<p>Me? About what? Bodybuilding?</p>
<p>All of it</p>
<p>Eh. I’ve actually really enjoyed HS, and I’m going to miss a lot of things. Maybe it’s good that some of my classes this year are awful - that should make it easier to want to move on.</p>
<p>Still, I think college should be fun too and it sounds more appealing than my other options. I can’t exactly stay a senior forever.</p>
<p>^^ The infraction too? That was fun.</p>
<p>Sometimes, I do weigh options I could otherwise have by not going to college. However, as an 18 year old high school grad, I probably wouldn’t be as desirable for international relief work than as a 20-24 year old college grad.</p>
<p>Maybe, maybe not. I just see all the suffering in the world, and I realize that wasting time and money going to school isn’t gonna help those people.</p>
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Unless you use that education to help them in ways you otherwise could not. But I sympathize with what you said, as I have often felt this exact thing. Have you ever seen the United Nations’ University for Peace in Costa Rica?</p>
<p>Wow, that school is AMAZING. But you’re right. I do need the education to help the world. Problem is, I don’t wanna wait for it.</p>
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Haha, it is. I hope I can get in for grad school.</p>
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I’m a like-minded soul. I just need to go out and do everything I can, and I feel like every day I wait is a waste, and I’m not actually doing anything with my life. Sometimes that makes it difficult to study subjects that then seem pointless. But I suppose I have to press on, and get the degree that certifies me as more qualified to fight poverty.</p>
<p>Exactly. Sometimes I wish I could just quit school, get on a plane, and fly out to Africa or India tomorrow. Football games and boyfriends all seems so pointless to me.</p>
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I know how you feel, trust me, I do. I’d even take subversive human rights work in North Korea or Iran.</p>
<p>I don’t know about those two countries, but human rights is at the top of my list, next to AIDS and fighting hunger and poverty. I guess I could help fight hunger and poverty right here in the U.S.</p>