being_eighteen mockingbird lately, everyone i know's been turning eighteen (or nineteen, or twenty) halfway through second year of college and a bunch of people (or at least my closer friends) want out of school, at least the way it is now don't like science (or the way it's being taught), aren't enjoying themselves, don't want to do anything like this for the rest of their lives have no idea what the hell they're going to do in university just have a very strong feeling that this is completely wrong is it an eighteen thing? is it that at this point you're supposed to be able to make choices for yourself and you feel like you can't? the word 'career' they keep throwing around teenage angst or maybe it's just that when you're a kid your parents tell you that you're supposed to go through life a certain way (school, cegep, university, career, marriage, kids, kids go to school...) apparently it's a wall everyone hits... there's the guy who decided to become an english teacher instead of an electrical engineer the guy who's decided to spend five years here instead of two cause he can't get through calculus the guy who's failing everything, but still comes to school, just not to class and my two best friends who are completely separately saying exactly the same things to me, and i don't know what to say, so i just listen. it's just all very confusing, y'know? being eighteen is. 051217 ... pluto what a horrible year. i'm glad i got it over with quickly. greetings from the underworld. 081216 what's it to you? who go blather from