The more time that passes in between now and my time in high school, the more I question. What was it even preparing me for? Was any of it any useful? Even practical?

     My time in high school put this huge emphasis on science, and math especially. I had taken a lot of advanced courses in both these subjects and to this day I still haven’t used this. 

     I find this all absurd. I gave years of my life learning these concepts, equations, theories, all while the education system assured these are integral aspects to guaranteeing a bright future for myself. How does knowing “mitochondria is the power housing of the cell” help me do taxes? I feel cheated.

     I went to college right after high school, and I realized my first semester how the education system failed me.

     High school didn’t even prepare me for higher education. I only made it through half of my first college semester before I dropped out, the work load was too much, the schedule was too chaotic, I was struggling and I was confused because “I had always done so well in high school.”

     I find it kind of funny how high school puts this huge emphasis on going to college, and getting a degree yet they never bother to expose you to its challenges. It throws you at college, knowing it’s given you the wrong tools for success.

     Since middle school I had really wanted to get into veterinary science and I carried that passion all the way through school. When I got to college I got a taste for what that career would actually be like and I didn’t enjoy it. 

     The problem with high school is that it only caters to the students that want to get into agriculture, be an engineer, scientist or english major. And when I chose to start pursuing a career outside of those options, a career in the film industry, all that time in high school became useless.

     I’d argue there is nearly no overlap between the skill set to do high school versus the skill set to do college. It’s only been through heavy reevaluation, major changes to the way I approach school and a lot of work that I’ve managed to enroll back into college. 

     I think it is insane how one minute I was graduating, brand new to adulthood the next minute I had to choose what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. What an absolute delirium we’re hoodwinked into at such a vulnerable age.

     I’d describe it as dystopian. And it saddens me that it’s the youngest among us that are suffering for it. Young bright futures everywhere are being set up for failure. 

     But change can still occur. It’s only a matter of time and will before the power of the people is enough to demand a change that will matter.