Michael Tsui: Monologue
What’s there to say about college? College has been a vastly different experience compared to high school. I had never needed to pull an all-nighter before (at most stay up until 1:00am) but I’ve already done it twice in the past two months. Nowadays I feel far more exhausted than I was in high school despite getting more sleep now (went to sleep at 12:00-6:30 compared to now at 11:30-7:30). The “freedom” is much, much greater compared to in high school because there is simply far more but at the same time there is a larger expectation to put time into quality work. In spite of these changes, I look forward to these challenges because I know that there is nothing that can be more satisfying than overcoming these obstacles.
Growing up, there was one rule that I constantly heard and eventually ingrained into mentality and that is “treat others as you yourself want to be treated.” This includes but is not limited to looking at things from other people’s perspectives to properly understand their reasoning, care not to say anything that may offend them, and, of course, treat them as nicely as possible. Every single person on this planet deserves respect because they all have good qualities within them, and by looking at these good qualities only then can there be a true appreciation of life.
October 17th, 2014 at 5:17 am
I agree with you the we have more freedom in college and it’s amazing but the higher expectations can be challenging.