College Admissions are Stupid and Nobody Likes Them and I Think I'll Go Join The Circus Now

I do recall Mr. Mullins saying that our blogs don't always have to be relevant to what we're working on and reading in English class, and that if something is really burning on our minds and irking us that we should try writing about it. So here it goes, because lots of things are irking me right now.

Firstly, I hate college essays. Nothing achieves the art of irking me more than college essays. You know what I think colleges should ask? Something along the lines of this: "What do you want to do in life? How will it help you or the people around you? Why should you even get accepted into college?". Instead they're throwing out crap like "What sparks your imagination?".  You know what, college admission guys? When you throw out essay questions like that, you've been living under a rock for the past infinity years if you actually think that you're going to get an honest answer from the bottom of that kid's heart. You know what sparks my imagination? Narnia. But that's not what you wanna hear. You'd rather have me sit there and lie about how some random topic I have been forced to study in some meaningless high school class has changed my life and got me so interested and involved in something or other and inspired my entire career plan. Don't sit there and think that us kids are actually being sincere in half of the things that we write for these stupid prompts, because we aren't. We're just spitting out what we know you want to hear. And you know what? I used a thesaurus for basically every big word in my essay and it has been peer edited just about 10,000 times, so don't think that you're really getting a sample of my actual writing skills.

Secondly, College Admission and Scholarship Guys, don't sit there and make me fill out my race and gender and socioeconomic information just so you can use it against me. I don't wanna sit there and write down stuff and fill in bubbles concerning my demographic that I know are just going to make it harder for me to be admitted. I'm not going to get too much into politics here, but I think it would be nice if we all had an equal chance for admission and everything could be based off of hard work and talent. The real way to promote equality is to become blind to race and gender, not to sit there and continue to use it against people. What was once called "reverse discrimination" is still discrimination. Notice how it still has the word "discrimination" in it. Sorry I was born a Caucasian girl and make up the majority of the people who are applying to college right now. Can't really help that.

Thirdly, College Admission Guys That I Hate, why would you look at our ACT scores and unweighted let me repeat, unweighted, GPA over everything else? I guess I would have benefitted from taking straight general classes and actually getting sleep at night or maybe even having a social life all of these years! After all, the goal for high school (for most students) is just getting into college anyways. Oh, but it's the ACT score that irks me most. Readers, in case you didn't know, colleges like UK look at your ACT score above everything else. Especially for scholarships. Well here's the deal: Let's say there's a kid with a 34 or 35 or something on his ACT, but its grades are comprised of almost straight C's. Yeah, this kid has proved itself to be smart, but if it gets poor grades along with that, what conclusions can we draw? It doesn't work hard. But no, you're gonna let it in over a straight-A kid with a solid 27ish type score who has obviously been working and dedicating itself much, much harder. What good is a genius if they choose not to apply themselves?

So basically I hate college and I think we should all just rebel against society's standards and not go. You know...there are actually some hoboes that lead pretty interesting lives.

Okay I'm done now.