{"id":1521,"date":"2012-08-02T15:34:49","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T15:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymajors.com\/blog\/?p=1521"},"modified":"2020-12-15T16:34:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T16:34:28","slug":"hard-work-sweat-never-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/hard-work-sweat-never-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard Work & Sweat Never Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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While I would love to tell you about the general experience of \u201ccollege-hopping\u201d (That is, visiting numerous campuses in hopes that one springs to life before your very eyes and shouts, \u201cPick me, pick me!\u201d), I can tell you about the general experience from a secondhand eye, and explain to you what on earth you should expect, from a student\/human point of view. Savvy?<\/p>\n

College is as college does. You can go to Yale and end up working as a semi-satisfied partner of a slowly degenerating humbug of a business, or you be Tom Hanks and go to a small college in Sacramento and turn out to be Tom Hanks. However, it does help if you\u2019re Tom Hanks. If you are, I congratulate you and I humbly request that you take a look at my reel and a recent screenplay I\u2019ve written about a quirky old man with a heart of gold?<\/p>\n

So, when you are inevitably overwhelmed by the amount of pressure you feel on picking the right school, finding a dorm-mate that doesn\u2019t smell like Swiss cheese or turn your antique lava lamp into a makeshift bong, I want you to take a deep breath (And I mean a deep breath, none of that shallow stuff. I mean like if Captain Hook was coming after you and you had to hide in a mermaid grotto and the water was rising. That kind of deep breath) and just relax. It\u2019s fine. You are still you, despite the protests from universities that you can\u2019t truly be complete without them. It\u2019s all going to be okay, just stay focused, positive and for goodness sakes, remember to live every day like you\u2019re Glenn Coco.<\/p>\n

When I was in my senior year of high school, there were dozens and dozens of letters for colleges that said things like \u201cCome for a visit!\u201d and \u201cWe care about your future!\u201d and, of course, I was like, \u201cBrown cares about my future?! I feel loved by this school whose geographical location I am unaware but whose name I am<\/em> aware of!\u201d Of course, that was before I turned it over and found out it was for a summer program for pre-grads, not from the actual university. But I liked to pretend it was. Some of you will actually receive letters from schools like that, and some of you won\u2019t. But, who cares? You make your life what you make your life. No school is going to do that for you. Will some schools offer more opportunities in terms of connections, internships, higher-up priority? Yes. Will some people be able to afford those schools and some people will not? Absolutely. This is an inevitable fact. While everyone is entitled to a quality education, not everyone earns the right to attend an Ivy League through their hard work, or receive the opportunity through old money and new ideas. But that doesn\u2019t mean that we don\u2019t have the same chance to fight like mad for what we want. So, when you\u2019re choosing a college, when you\u2019re checking out the campus cafeteria (we all know that\u2019s what you check out first), remember that the school you choose does not make you who you are, you<\/em> do. It was facilitates a window of opportunity to step into the man or woman you are going to become.<\/p>\n

Hard work and sweat never fail, and mistakes are going to be made. If Michael Caine can star in movies like \u201cJaws 3: The Revenge\u201d and still have a respected career, than you can certainly make something of yourself despite your fears and failures. Be proud of who you are, where you go, what you do. Step out and be bold in the classes and in the classes that don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m writing this on a plane to Tokyo, listening to French pop-musicals, because I am that cool. I write for this blog, develop ideas daily, write far too much for things that don\u2019t matter and neglect things that do, and I daydream far too often. I\u2019m a nutcase and a scatterbrain, and I feel a false sense of eclecticism most of the time. But guess what? I have gumption, I tell you. I am a college student who believes in a future of promise, despite myself. My dreams are expensive and somewhat confusing, but again, who cares? I am almost twenty years old and I am going to dream wildly like I did when I was nine. Why not? So you do that. Don\u2019t just look for some school that\u2019s going to impress those mean twins from The Social Network<\/em>, look for your nine-year-old self. I promise that\u2019s okay. When you step onto a campus, think about the beautiful possibilities that are inevitably present in its sidewalks, regardless of whether of not those sidewalks were walked by a past president or not.<\/p>\n

Life is beautiful and full of uproarious opportunity, should you choose to explore it. I intend to study abroad in my education, have my screenplay selected for the Senior Film Festival, attend the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London after I earn my degree here, and there isn\u2019t nothing in the world that is going to stop me.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m a broke, singular, and somewhat delusional young thing. So whoever you are, you\u2019re better off than me. If you have half the confidence in the future that I do, whoever you are, than you\u2019ll be more than okay. Trust me.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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