Girl you still here? If one more person asks me that question I’m going to lose it! Like many other eagles, I have become the dreaded SUPER SENIOR. Now in all fairness I’ve only been at N.C. Central for 5 years (doesn’t sound so bad when you say it that way .) but I was supposed to be gone with my Communications Studies degree in tow, in May 2009. Its sounds funny but in some ways I think I’ve become a complacent career student. Why that you ask, well school is the perfect place to hide from the real world/adulthood. I can be honest with you and myself that I was effen up heavy and by the time I actually realized “Hey I can’t stay here forever” I was beyond lacking in my credits. So I asked a few of my follow S2’s (the cool way to say super senior *kanyeshrug*) how the hell did we get into this predicament?
I can say for me it was getting caught up in this college life. Most would say that’s an excuse because there are plenty of people who went harder in the paint than me when it came to partying and still made it across that stage on time. When I first step foot on the slopping hills and verdant green my plan was to take over (at the time I wanted to be an on air talent) and I executed it rather well. So for awhile (and till this day) I was a campus celebrity. Today I run to class then run to get off. My time has come and gone; to be honest I came with the wrong focus. I should’ve been focused on the fastest and most efficient way to that stage. Now here I am five years later (omg five years though..ugh) on a wing a prayer.
There is an inverse to this as well, right now the world beyond these rose colored glasses called college is to say the least… *!@#ed up (excuse my French). I’ve had some of the best professors on my campus tell me school is the best place to be right now because there is NOTHING out there. Most of the people that I came in with are either BACK in school, back at the crib, or having babies. It’s sad to say but a bachelor’s is the new high school diploma and by no means am I trying to take away from the accomplishment of getting that piece of paper but real is real. Its goes extra for my field of study (Mass Media/Communications) where window of opportunity is getting smaller and smaller (mind you already a big girl) but on the serious side it’s REAL out there
I’m saying all that to say this do I feel some type of way about being a “Complacent Career Student”, honestly at times yes I do. I often think of the shoulda, coulda, wouldas all the time, you have no clue how awkward I feel walking around I campus with people I barely recognize (these freshman where born in ’92!!!). On the flip I’m thankful to even have the opportunity to complete my program because there are many who won’t be able to. The only thing standing between me and that stage is 21 credit hours. One of closest friends told me “girl it don’t matter just as long as you finish” Well please believe I am going to and right now all my mind can focus on is May 14, 2011. So to answer that question..YES I AM STILL HERE but NOT for much longer.
By: @omg-shutup
