I've learned many lessons since I have begun my undergraduate journey, and I plan on learning many more. One of the most important lessons I have learned during my time here is the "system" we live in is not perfect, but nothing is. You have to play the hand you are dealt and work within reality.

No matter what your major of interest is, the purpose of those classes you take in college is to provide you with the tools to be successful in your particular reality. Whether you are studying the collected works of Socrates or writing out complex condensation reactions, you are using your mind, and in order to "free your mind," you must use it.

The "system" is not perfect, but without those meaningless facts we learn in science and business class, disease would not be cured and economic chaos would rule. Graduating from college is not an easy thing to do. If it were, everyone would do it. I do not consider my academic life here a lifeless prison. I am excited to be a college student, especially at one of the premier universities in the country. If you do not want to take advantage of the knowledge that surrounds you, then maybe you should follow the white rabbit out of college. Grade point averages certainly do not define who a person is, but if you want to take advantage of all that college has to offer, you should not consider them useless. The "system" is not perfect, but it has worked with great success here for nearly 150 years. They must be doing something right.