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It's Not as Bad as It Sounds I Swear

As of 5:30pm today, I am no longer a Columbia College Chicago student. Technically, I dropped out. This is a very bad sentence I never want to write ever again, and it is a sentence I never planned on writing. But I write a lot, so I was bound to write it at some point. Chicago is a cesspool of opportunities and inspiration, and I'd like to think I took advantage of that while I was there. But there's a lot there I wasn't expecting and wasn't ready to handle. When I moved to Illinois, I thought I'd be impervious to everything that happened back home. Like life would stop down south while I was away. It didn't. I had an uncle die during midterms and I didn't get to go back home for the funeral. It made me realize that I didn't have any grasp on the things I loved back home. They slipped out of my hands and I was too far away to do anything. I watched them fly away, left with nothing but memories and photographs. There was nothing tangible left. I ...
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What? Like It's Very, Very Hard?

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College is very, very hard. I have Elle Woods goggles on. Elle Woods goggles are the delusion that college is going to be super duper easy and everyone is going to love you and all your professors will be in awe of your talent, and there will be job offers left and right by the end of your first week. Me, walking into college back in August. These are Elle Woods goggles. As much as I love Elle Woods, these goggles are very deceiving. Fifteen weeks later, I have made a handful of friends, disappointed at least two professors, and I couldn't even snag a job at a popup Halloween store. Me, finishing off finals and about to leave for break. On top of that, I have people who absolutely hate me.  People who talk down on me whenever I'm not around. And they're girls! Girls can't put other girls down! That's basic, cardinal-rule. If I've learned anything from being here, it's that if you think you're good enough to talk down on others, you...
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