un dia en la viDa

A day in the life. I'm thinking that this is mainly what my blog will be about.  A typical college student just trying to make something out of myself.  That is all I seem to think about lately, how you can't stop yourself from growing up. To be honest, I feel as if I've been living in a scrub state for the past 2 years. My life is great, don't get me wrong, but I feel like I am going to be doing the same thing over and over again until I graduate; school and work.  Then when I finally graduate, I will have a diploma and still be doing the same job I am now probably, which is waitressing.  Now don't get me wrong, waitressing is great money and an easy job to have when you're in school.  The thing that drives me crazy is all the waitresses/ waiters I work with all graduated and are still doing the same job as me! I guess what I'm saying is I fear the thought of waitressing for any longer than I have to...mainly because I have been since I was 17 and I am ready to move on to a job that I can actually be passionate about; a job that doesn't involve telling anyone the "Fresh Fish" specials or giving bottomless sodas to 12 year olds; (They really slug em' down). Colleges won't let you off easy though.  They make you take ridiculously unnecessary classes and call it a "Core Curriculum", when really it is just a waste of money in reality.  What will taking U.S. History and the Constitution or Biology do to impact my future career as a newscaster?  "Newsflash: Numerous new species of fungi were discovered..."  I would have already changed the channel at that point.  I just think that with all the money we spend on school we should be able to take classes that interest us; we shouldn't have to take useless classes because the state requires it.  If the state paid for our education then I would have no objection, but that is not the case now, is it?  Sorry if this sounds like a rant, which it completely is, but that is what good classes let you do.  This blog is for my journalism class, something I am very interested in taking.  That's why I'm sitting here ranting about these foolish classes rather than reading Chapter 16, the Reconstruction from 1863-1877.  I decided to check out the Globe's website instead of that boring reading assignment, mainly because my Professor works for them and we talked about the Globe in class today.  First headline on the list, "How Paul Pierce spent his Summer Vacation", followed by "Reports on Brady's extension Unconfirmed".  I just read the article on Pierce, and then the comments left by fellow bloggers after.  One of the comments was the following.. aldrichpma wrote: So all and all you didn't do anything to improve yourself or this team and you still complained, and you will still report to camp overweight. Great. Congrats on getting married. This really made me laugh for some reason, but then again it also made me think; I hope no negative bloggers rip on me when they're having a bad day. Anyways, that's about as far as I checked into boston.com tonight.  Copeland, (my professor) was right, the $$ making stories, as dumb as they are, are what get people's attention in society today. I guess I'm going to leave it at that, I should go brush up on my U.S. History.
xO
Lauren