It’s kind of funny when you come to college the first time and expect to make a choice, but instead you’re just handed a bunch of papers to choose a schedule with classes already fixed for you. Isn’t college all about making choices for yourself? But when you put these things into perspective, I guess we really don’t end up choosing most of the things in our lives. You could ask people from different parts of the world about who your dollar belongs to, but you’ll always get a different answer wherever you are. You might ask the man in Washington, then it’ll belong to the state. You could ask the man in the Vatican, and it’ll belong to God. If you ask the man in Moscow, then it’ll just belong to everyone. The land of the free isn’t even that free anymore when you look at it now. Well, at least next semester I can put a bunch of classes on a piece of paper.
Modern times suck aside from all the benefits that medicine and technology bring us. The quality of music in the mainstream is really one of the things I can’t stand.Creativity in lyrics pretty much just turned into writing about an experience about some party you went to, drugs, and killing people. Well, music really just is a matter of opinion so who am I to say what’s good and what’s bad? To me it really just seems like these artists sit down and flip a coin to decide whether the next song they write is about a) killing people or b) drugs. The media’s also pretty bad in my opinion. Is it really news when we’re talking about things going on in the lives of celebrities instead issues that affect our daily lives? Is Beyonce becoming a mom really a big enough deal that everybody should hear about it? Things could definitely be worse, sure, but as it is now I think we should try and put a little bit of effort into what we broadcast as news. Well, at least Baruch doesn’t suck and the people I’ve met here are some of the more intelligent and nicer people I’ve run into. Hopefully the people I meet today are the people that change things tomorrow.
