Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one that's looking forward to the future. Don’t get me wrong I love college, but I'm tired of being broke. When I was in high school, I couldn't wait to get to college. I was ready for the next step in my life. When I graduated, I was happy to be done. I wasn't sad like everyone else. Now I am in college and I'm trying everything in my power to graduate early. I am very excited for what the future holds for me.
When I'm graduating and getting my degree, I'll start working towards my MBA. I will be working full time and taking online classes. I am hungry to start my career. Plenty of people my age don't want to graduate, they love the "easy" college lifestyle and don't want to start really “adulting.” College is a lot of fun but I'm ready for life.
Too many people think your best years are in high school. There the rest talk about how college was the best time of their life. Yes, I'll remember my high school and college years for the rest of my life but they won't be the best of my life.
My career will be better than high school and college. I will work my way up from the bottom to the top and become successful. I'm broke, living in a tiny house with two other roommates, gassing up my car is like a quarter of a paycheck, and rent and bills are the rest of my paycheck. Life in college is tough. You have a lot of bills and not very much money. Then you have to study and do homework on top of that. Jobs in college are mostly terrible too. They don't pay very much and you have to work hours when you don't want to and your friends are doing things without you.
The worst part about college is when you pull up in your car that's AC hardly works, sweating, and the college kid next to you is driving a brand new Cadillac or a Ford Raptor. I don't know about other people but for me, it puts a chip on my shoulder. I am tired of being another broke college kid, that needs scholarships and grants to get me to school when there are parents who pay for a $80,000 vehicle for their kid to drive in college where they are paying for their whole schooling.
At the same time, I couldn't be happier that I have had to go through college the way I have. It's taught me many things, that being handed everything from mommy and daddy. Don't get me wrong, my mom does help me, but she has never spoiled me. I couldn't thank her enough because my life hasn't been easy and that makes me want to better. I want it so when I have kids, they have a better life than I ever had. I want to buy my own $80,000 truck and not rely on my parents.
I want to be successful and not just for the money. I want to be respected and looked up to. But more than anything else I want to be remembered. There's something inside that makes me believe, I wasn't just born to pay bills and die. I want people to look up to me and think he came from nothing and became who he is but he never lost who he was. I'm here to do something to be remembered.
