Reading Response

Really, I can’t think of what to say for this essay because it is completely and entirely…true. It provides an essence that I can see relating college life to now a simplified high school life more or less. It seems we still fit the exact relative attitude of melancholy. Any strain outside the norm creates a sign that ultimately is seen as ostracizing. Most recently, I had my annual breakdown and everyone distanced himself or herself from me. Instead of realizing deficiencies and living with them, they choose to separate them away. This was probably the biggest theme that I took personally out of the essay. College courses are aimed towards institutionalization now for a lack of a better word. Instead of taking courses that pertain specifically to the area of life, we are forced into places where otherwise we would never touch. It seems relatively like high school before anything else you must complete your GENERAL education. How is general specifically going to help my life with the career that I will go down? Right now, I’m partaking in a Global Politics course that as of yet has not given me any great perspective into life except “read the news.” (Which I have done before that) I feel a response to this essay is going to be quite hard to do against the grain because everything in it has directly influenced me so far in creating this image of what college life is like.