The double-edged sword of freedom

When people say you have freedom, you really do have freedom. But, because this freedom comes with far too much responsibility, at times I wish I never had so much. We are thrust into a world, some not willingly, into the real world that school has not readily prepared us for. You have to continuously, sometimes even unknowingly, make decisions that will in some way impact on your future.

I learnt that lecturers do not really care if you attend lectures or not, listen to them or not. They are more than happy with just failing you. In university, you are just a number. You can pull the wool over the eyes of all by getting people to sign in for you, but in the long run you fool yourself. So, no one is going to threaten you to go to class, do your work or remind you when assignments are due. In situations like this you wish you were back at school … Learning to adjust to the real world was the hardest and most life changing experience. Ultimately, in life, each man is for himself.

University life is a “blast”. You have to choose whether you want to go to lectures or not, study or go to a movie, sit in the front of the class or the back, eat healthy food or not, and the most striking one for me is, do I just pass like everyone else or strive to get the best grades?