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| Jason Jewell Class of 2017 |
College is about learning skills for your future career, it’s about acquiring knowledge, reading textbooks, and doing research. We have been told over and over from young ages that we have to go to college to get a good paying job, that’s our motivation to stay in school. Maybe we have it all wrong. Maybe college isn’t about all of those career goals or all of that studying. What if College is about those friendships made and the things you learn about yourself when the only thing standing in between you and an A is the self discipline not to go to a party this weekend.
College for many is called the most fun times of their lives, and it is pretty easy to see why they would say that. There are few instances in life where you will have as much freedom and as little responsibility as your college years. The mindset of many young adults, make it hard to see the great days that are college. College isn’t easy because it can be so painful, the amount of life lessons stuffed into four years is tough especially when you choose to learn the hard way.
We as college students get so distracted by the all night study sessions or the 15-page papers that we don’t realize everything around us. College is about friendship. It’s about learning who your real friends are, it’s about learning to stick through the ups and downs of relationships. Those late night study sessions are with people that will one day be the greatest friends you will ever know.
The most important things that we will learn in college won’t come from a textbook or a lecture from your professor, it comes from the times when you least expect it. College teaches you more about the person you are becoming than it ever will about a specific subject.
College is a time for learning, and there will never be subject worth knowing better than the subject that is you.
Jason Jewell is a sophomore McConnell Scholar at the University of Louisville. He studies political science and economics.