real or not?

“We can’t be lost, we don’t know where we’re going” - Lorelai Gilmore (Gilmore Girls)

If I had to list down everything I love in the world, one item would probably be “quick, witty remarks”.  I’ve seen the commercials when it was still on air.  It is a story of a single mother and her daughter, both of which are “quick and witty”.  It is filled with music, books and movies, which probably surround my life.  Travel is also present when Lorelai and Rory went in a European Backpacking escapade.  It’s humurous, it’s simple, it’s a show that would appeal to my sense and personality, which all makes me wonder, why didn’t I watch it before?

I’m currently in the fourth season, when Rory is going to college at Yale University.  Her experiences in her first year, or as a student in general, is making me reminisce of my 18 years of being a student, and more appropriately, my last 4 years which is college.  I’m still in college, but on March 26, all of it would change.  College is the best years of my academic, even non-academic, life.  I’m not sure if it is the school, if it is the crowd, or simply because of the fact that it is college.  It is here that I am experiencing a sense of independence, a sense of realism, yet a complete set of idealism that would be bringing me to my future career.

Upon entry to college, I had all of this imagination of how it would be.  I imagined big, auditorium-like classrooms (well we have a couple of this), professors in preppy clothes, and even students being all academic and snotty.  College, my experience, is not like that at all.  The big, auditiorium-like classrooms are only used on special discussions, professors wear football jerseys to show their fandom and students are all weird and high.  The best thing to say is that, my college imagination was shattered after my 1st semester.

However, the learnings I’ve acquired, and still am acquiring, is more than I expected.  My learnings are non-academic.  Things that I learned are those that are preparing me for the future life, “in the real world”.  It’s about talking with people, doing transactions, arranging stuffs, understanding politics, how the world goes, and so forth.  College is my real world already, it’s not the entire real world, but it is a real world.