I went for 2 reasons
1. They accepted me
2. I was always picked on in school so I was so un-used to people being nice to me that the acceptance I got from total strangers drew me right in

For a while it was nice, but then stuff just started to stack up

1. Everyone kept calling me a Chef, IM NOT A GOD DAMN COOK even at job interviews with accounting temp agencies asked me If i was training to be a chef when I had my accounting experience written on my god damn resume right in front of them

2. There were too many black people I KNOW I KNOW it sounds so wrong, but there were like 6 black guys to every white guy its hard to make freinds enough as it is, what about people i have nothing in common with, and I don’t like black girls so meeting a girl was impossible

3. Yes its shallow but I just could not meet a girl there, so many students were black or married

4. I couldn’t stand a 40 minute commute every day

5. The schedule was broken up into trimesters so classes were 2. 5 hours long and breaks were only about a week and a half and never lined up with other schools so I could never do anything social

6. there was no social life what so ever, the only place anything happend was in the dorms and I couldn’t get in the dorms beacuse I didn’t know anyone.

7. The damn Television ads that made my school look like a bullshit community college, and all the people who would always talk about how easy it was to get in and how they don’t even look at your grades

So after 2 years of this and getting my associates and the sad realization that I just wasted 2 years of my life (AND ALOT OF MONEY) I decided that I have to get out and go to a REAL school, so In my last term I took calculus at the community college (it was the only class that I needed and they didn’t teach it, a college without a calculus course figure that out) and beacuse I suck at math, I failed and was left with no way out

so after alot of arguing with my dad and crying from my mom who no matter how much evidence i showed them refused to believe that Johnson and wales was a horrible 2nd rate school (there from Rhode Island where a degree from that campus is actually worth something)

I got to go to community college this year (passed calculus and I am in my second semester)

now I have to apply to NC state (where I really want to go) and UNC Charlotte (my back up, wich I would hate to go)

College is really the last chance I have to be a kid, High school sucked and I always thought I would go to a normal college where I went their for 4 years got my bachelors and then go on, but I’m going to be in school for 5 years,

I always thought people who got their bachelors in 5 years were lazy ne’er do wells, i guess its the universes way of teaching me a lesson. and before I knew how shitty my school was I always made fun of UNCC students (we called it the Default school)

If I don’t get into State or UNCC then my life is ruined. . . plain and simple.

This conversation was published at Accounting Services of Charlotte, NC