Woah... Okay weird new journal thing... I swear I don't update this thing for two weeks and it all changes... Alrighty then.
IN OTHER NEWS, I finished my classes today!
And I'm pretty sure I got A's in both of them
So that means I can do more art before August 21st when I start up at my new college. Which is posing it's own problems. I have no idea if I'm looking at a 4, 5 or even 6 hour round-trip drive two days a week and I'm officially scared that my psych degree won't get me a job (I know the art one won't, which is why I went into psych). But the job market is SO FUCKING IMPACTED EVERYWHERE that pretty much any degree is worthless. Or if they say, for example, that there are a lot of jobs for somebody with a business degree one year, it's impacted the next and it takes at least 4 years to get the degree. So really, if you do the math where does that leave you? Good news is people will always need mental health care, especially now that having a mental illness is slowly becoming okay (as it always should have) and there will be a need for practitioners and people to teach the classes. That's probably being super optimistic, but I'M BETTER OFF THAN I AM IN ART! Which is ridiculous.... But whatever. I can do school counseling and all this other stuff. I'm pretty sure there's more I can do with this than I thought. Butfuckmyliferightnowguys.
How did we even get to the point that they're asking 8th grades what college they want to go to, what they want to do for the rest of their lives, and making their 20 year old selves pull their hair out over trying to find the answers to these questions? All without ANYBODY TELLING YOU HOW TO DO IT?! Why isn't "reality" a required course? Why do they fill our heads with hopes and dreams and aspirations only to say "oh yeah bee tee dubs ur rlly fckd" and throwing it all out the airlock? Why did they tell us throughout our lives that we need to go to college to get a good degree to get a good job so that we can live at a good standard of living? Why does everybody not seem to be freaking out about this?!
Lest we forget to mention the cost of it all. I'm fortunate that I'll be paying only about 5 grand out of pocket every year for school, but that doesn't factor in living expenses, gas, freak situations... I can't even remember if it factors in books. And the system is so fucked up. If you're under the age of 24 here, they look at your parents' income. They don't really give two fucks about what you make or if you even talk to your parents. Or if your parents are even as supportive as mine. I get a grant because I've got a bitchin GPA and my parents make an x amount of money every year, but that's it. It's loans beyond the 2500 I'm given each year (EACH
YEAR) for part time schooling.
TL;DR Start HereWOW. Okay.
THAT turned into an unintentional rant..... Really sorry about that, but I guess I'm not too sorry since I'm not deleting that shit right now. Probably because it poses some problems with society and MAYBE SOMEBODY HAS ANSWERS FOR ME! D:
But anyway, I'll be able to get to all of your wonderful comments and notes and everything soon
I'm sorry I haven't replied sooner, but when I'd sit down to my laptop to have fun I'd be so tired and brain dead you wouldn't have gotten an intelligent response out of me. It would have looked like lndSBGPOGBOGTNBOGJBTIO-drool- Seriously. I've been that fucking tired lol
Guess I'll go read that financial aid booklet that makes me want to rage quit just thinking about it... Or work out. I like the work out idea. I'm packing on more chub than I want too and it's hot so I might go swim some laps.
Peace out my lovelies