Things I learned during my first semester of university

I learned:


- how to not learn (aka dull my inquisitive learning mind because there's no time for it)
- that is are more than one kind of knowledge in the world, but book knowledge is the only kind that is acknowledged or respected
- that book knowledge and the way they test it puts people's brains and personalities in a tiny over-generalized box and if you're not good at multiple choice tests you are hooped - they don't give you any other ways to show what you've learned
- that these people need Jesus
- that marks don't dictate how successful you are - you aren't any less of an amazing person if you get 60 as opposed to 90
- that they just teach you common-sense concepts labeled with big, hard to remember words so it sounds 'academic' and so they can charge you $500
- how to 'think critically' ... aka doubt everything you've ever heard and test it with the 'scientific method'
- that the mumps shot is overrated; if everyone around me gets vaccinated I don't need to
- that there are a lot more fulfilling things to do in the world than go to school to work for money so you can buy a lot of things
- that academia is futile
- that the bible's right when it says that the wisdom of the world is useless
- that I want to give up my own worldly expectations for myself and go where God wants me to go, which isn't necessarily the direction the world is moving
- that it's okay to choose your own path, to be different, and to do what you dream